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+.TH ICINGA2 "8" "October 2015" "icinga2 - The Icinga 2 network monitoring daemon"
+.SH NAME
+icinga2 \- The Icinga 2 network monitoring daemon
+
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+.B icinga2
+.I command
+[
+.I command options
+][
+.I global options
+]
+
+.I command
+:= [
+.B api | ca | console | daemon | feature | node | object | pki | variable
+]
+.B --help
+
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+
+Icinga 2 is an open source monitoring system which checks the availability of your network resources, notifies users of outages, and generates performance data for reporting.
+
+Scalable and extensible, Icinga 2 can monitor large, complex environments across multiple locations.
+
+.SH OPTIONS
+Details for specific command options can be viewed by invoking the command name with
+.B --help
+parameter.
+
+.SS Global options
+.TP
+.B -h,--help
+Show this help message.
+.TP
+.B -V,--version
+Show version information.
+.TP
+.B --color
+Use VT100 color codes even when stdout is not a terminal.
+.TP
+.BI "-D, --define" " arg"
+Define a constant.
+.TP
+.BI "-l, --library" " arg"
+Load a library.
+.TP
+.BI "-I, --include" " arg"
+Add include search directory.
+.TP
+.BI "-x, --log-level" " [ debug | notice | information | warning | critical ]"
+Specify the log level for the console log, default is
+.B information.
+.TP
+.BI "-X, --script-debugger"
+Enables the script debugger. When an exception occurs or the 'debugger' keyword
+is encountered in a user script Icinga 2 launches the script debugger that
+allows the user to debug the script.
+
+.SS daemon options
+The CLI command daemon provides the functionality to start/stop Icinga 2.
+Furthermore it provides the configuration validation.
+
+.TP
+.BI "-c, --config" " arg"
+Using this option you can specify one or more configuration files.
+Config files are processed in the order they are specified on the command-line.
+
+When no configuration file is specified and the
+.B --no-config
+is not used, Icinga 2 automatically falls back to using the configuration file
+.B ConfigDir + "/icinga2.conf"
+(where ConfigDir is usually
+.BI "/etc/icinga2" ")."
+
+.TP
+.B "-z, --noconfig"
+Start without a configuration file.
+.TP
+.B "-C, --validate"
+This option can be used to check if your configuration files contain errors.
+If any errors are found the exit status is 1, otherwise 0 is returned.
+.TP
+.BI "-e, --errorlog" " arg"
+Log fatal errors to the specified log file (only works in combination with
+.BR "--daemonize" ")."
+.TP
+.B "-d, --daemonize"
+Detach from the controlling terminal.
+.SH "REPORTING BUGS"
+Report bugs at <https://github.com/Icinga/icinga2>
+.br
+Icinga home page: <https://icinga.com/>
+.SH COPYRIGHT
+Copyright \(co 2012 Icinga GmbH
+License GPLv2+: GNU GPL version 2 or later <https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl2.html>
+.br
+This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
+There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.