.TH maxscale 1
.SH NAME
maxscale - The intelligent proxy
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B maxscale
[\fIOPTIONS...\fR]
.SH DESCRIPTION
The MariaDB Corporation MaxScale is an intelligent proxy that allows forwarding of
database statements to one or more database servers using complex rules,
a semantic understanding of the database statements and the roles of
the various servers within the backend cluster of databases.

MaxScale is designed to provide load balancing and high availability
functionality transparently to the applications. In addition it provides
a highly scalable and flexible architecture, with plugin components to
support different protocols and routing decisions.

.SH OPTIONS
.TP
.BR "-d, --nodaemon"
Run MaxScale in the terminal process
.TP
.BR -f " \fIFILE\fB, --config=\fIFILE\fR"
Relative or absolute pathname of MaxScale configuration file to load.
.TP
.BR -l "[\fIfile|shm\fB], --log=[\fIfile|shm\fB]"
Log to file or shared memory. The default is to log to file.
.TP
.BR -L " \fIPATH\fB, --logdir=\fIPATH\fB"
Path to log file directory.
.TP
.BR -D " \fIPATH\fB, --datadir=\fIPATH\fB"
Path to data directory. This is where the embedded mysql tables are stored in addition to other MaxScale specific data.
.TP
.BR -C " \fIPATH\fB, --configdir=\fIPATH\fB"
Path to configuration file directory. MaxScale will look for the \fImaxscale.cnf\fR file from this folder.
.TP
.BR -B " \fIPATH\fB, --libdir=\fIPATH\fB"
Path to module directory. Modules are only searched from this folder.
.TP
.BR -A " \fIPATH\fB, --cachedir=\fIPATH\fB"
Path to cache directory. This is where MaxScale stores cached authentication data.
.TP
.BR -P " \fIPATH\fB, --piddir=\fIPATH\fB"
Location of MaxScale's PID file.
.TP
.BR -E " \fIPATH\fB, --execdir=\fIPATH\fB"
Location of the executable files. When internal processes are launched from within MaxScale the binaries are assumed to be in this directory. If you have a custom location for binary executable files you need to add this parameter.
.TP
.BR -U " \fIUSER\fB, --user=\fIUSER\fB"
Run MaxScale as another user. The user ID and group ID of this user are used to run MaxScale.
.TP
.BR -s " [\fIyes\fB|\fIno\fB], --syslog=[\fIyes\fB|\fIno\fB]"
Log messages to syslog.
.TP
.BR -S " [\fIyes\fB|\fIno\fB], \fB--maxlog=[\fIyes\fB|\fIno\fB]"
Log messages to MaxScale's own log files.
.TP
.BR "-v, --version"
Print version information and exit.
.TP
.BR "-V, --version-full"
Print full version information including the Git commit the binary was built from and exit.
.TP
.BR "-?, --help"
Show the help information for MaxScale and exit.
.SH EXAMPLES
Tutorials on GitHub:

.RS
.I https://github.com/mariadb-corporation/MaxScale/blob/master/Documentation/Documentation-Contents.md#tutorials
.RE
.SH SEE ALSO
The MaxScale documentation on the MariaDB Knowledge Base:

.RS
.I https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb-enterprise/mariadb-maxscale/
.RE

The MaxScale documentation on GitHub:

.RS
.I https://github.com/mariadb-corporation/MaxScale/blob/master/Documentation/Documentation-Contents.md
.RE
.SH BUGS
You can see a list of known bugs and report new bugs at:

.RS
.I https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MXS
.RE