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lvsm provides a command shell to manage a Linux Virtual Server (LVS) as a unified system and aims to simplify the management of such systems. The program assumes a Linux server running IPVS with iptables rules as firewall.

The program can be run as a shell by simply running lvsm or invoked as a command by passing all the arguments in the command line like lvsm configure show director

Software Requirements

One or more of the following software is required for correct functionality of lvsm:

• iptables
• ipvsadm
• svn
• git
• dsh
• vi
• pyparsing
• snimpy

Documentation

The documentation has been broken up into three parts:

• Command line options: Describes options available for invoking the program.
• Configuration file: Describes all the options available in the lvsm configuration file.
• Commands: Describes all the commands available inside the shell.