=head1 NAME

xenwatchdogd - Xen hypercall based watchdog daemon

=head1 SYNOPSIS

B<xenwatchdogd> [ I<OPTIONS> ] <I<TIMEOUT>> [ <I<SLEEP>> ]

=head1 DESCRIPTION

B<xenwatchdogd> arms the Xen watchdog timer to I<TIMEOUT> every I<SLEEP>
seconds. If the xenwatchdogd process dies or is delayed for more than
I<TIMEOUT> seconds, then Xen will take the B<on_watchdog> action
specified in the domain configuration (see xl.cfg(5)). If B<xenwatchdogd>
is running in dom0, the whole system will reboot.

=head1 OPTIONS

=over 4

=item B<-h>, B<--help>

Display a help message.

=item B<-F>, B<--foreground>

Run in the foreground. The default behaviour is to daemonize.

=item B<-x>, B<--safe-exit>

Disable watchdog on orderly exit. The default behaviour is to arm the
watchdog to 300 seconds to allow time for the domain to shutdown.  See 
also the B<SIGNALS> section.

=item B<timeout>

The number of seconds to arm the Xen watchdog timer. This must be set to
a minimum of two.

=item B<sleep>

The number of seconds to sleep in between calls to arm the Xen watchdog
timer. This must be at least one second, and less than the I<timeout>
value. If not specified, it defaults to half the I<timeout> value.

=back

=head1 SIGNALS

B<SIGUSR1> Will cause the program to disarm the watchdog timer and exit,
regardless of whether the B<--safe-exit> option was passed.

=head1 AUTHOR

Citrix Ltd and other contributors.