chef-expanderctl(8) - management program for chef-expander

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## NAME

`chef-expanderctl` - management program for chef-expander

## SYNOPSIS

chef-expanderctl COMMAND

Commands:

`help`
  Show help message
`queue-depth`
  display the aggregate queue backlog
`queue-status`
  show the backlog and consumer count for each vnode queue
`node-status`
  show the status of the nodes in the cluster
`log-level`
  sets the log level of all nodes in the cluster

## DESCRIPTION

Chef-expanderctl is a management program that allows you to get status information or change the logging verbosity (without restarting). chef-expanderctl has the following commands:

- chef-expanderctl help prints usage.
- chef-expanderctl queue-depth Shows the total number of messages in the queues.
- chef-expanderctl queue-status Show the number of messages in each queue. This is mainly of use when debugging a Chef Expander cluster.
- chef-expanderctl log-level LEVEL Sets the log level on a running Chef Expander or cluster. If you suspect that a worker process is stuck, as long as you are using clustered operation, you can simply kill the worker process and it will be restarted by the master process.

## SEE ALSO

chef-expander-cluster(8) chef-solr(8)

Full documentation for Chef and chef-server is located on the Chef wiki, http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Home.

## AUTHOR

Chef was written by Adam Jacob adam@ospcode.com of Opscode (http://www.opscode.com), with contributions from the community. This manual page was created by Nuo Yan nuo@opscode.com. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and / or modify this document under the terms of the Apache 2.0 License.

On Debian systems, the complete text of the Apache 2.0 License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/Apache-2.0.

1. Chef 11.8.2
2. December 2013
3. chef-expanderctl(8)