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+.. _mgr-administrator-guide:
+
+ceph-mgr administrator's guide
+==============================
+
+Manual setup
+------------
+
+Usually, you would set up a ceph-mgr daemon using a tool such
+as ceph-ansible.  These instructions describe how to set up
+a ceph-mgr daemon manually.
+
+First, create an authentication key for your daemon::
+
+    ceph auth get-or-create mgr.$name mon 'allow profile mgr' osd 'allow *' mds 'allow *'
+
+Place that key into ``mgr data`` path, which for a cluster "ceph"
+and mgr $name "foo" would be ``/var/lib/ceph/mgr/ceph-foo``.
+
+Start the ceph-mgr daemon::
+
+    ceph-mgr -i $name
+
+Check that the mgr has come up by looking at the output
+of ``ceph status``, which should now include a mgr status line::
+
+    mgr active: $name
+
+Client authentication
+---------------------
+
+The manager is a new daemon which requires new CephX capabilities. If you upgrade
+a cluster from an old version of Ceph, or use the default install/deploy tools,
+your admin client should get this capability automatically. If you use tooling from
+elsewhere, you may get EACCES errors when invoking certain ceph cluster commands.
+To fix that, add a "mgr allow \*" stanza to your client's cephx capabilities by
+`Modifying User Capabilities`_.
+
+High availability
+-----------------
+
+In general, you should set up a ceph-mgr on each of the hosts
+running a ceph-mon daemon to achieve the same level of availability.
+
+By default, whichever ceph-mgr instance comes up first will be made
+active by the monitors, and the others will be standbys.  There is
+no requirement for quorum among the ceph-mgr daemons.
+
+If the active daemon fails to send a beacon to the monitors for
+more than ``mon mgr beacon grace`` (default 30s), then it will be replaced
+by a standby.
+
+If you want to pre-empt failover, you can explicitly mark a ceph-mgr
+daemon as failed using ``ceph mgr fail <mgr name>``.
+
+Using modules
+-------------
+
+Use the command ``ceph mgr module ls`` to see which modules are
+available, and which are currently enabled.  Enable or disable modules
+using the commands ``ceph mgr module enable <module>`` and
+``ceph mgr module disable <module>`` respectively.
+
+If a module is *enabled* then the active ceph-mgr daemon will load
+and execute it.  In the case of modules that provide a service,
+such as an HTTP server, the module may publish its address when it
+is loaded.  To see the addresses of such modules, use the command 
+``ceph mgr services``.
+
+Some modules may also implement a special standby mode which runs on
+standby ceph-mgr daemons as well as the active daemon.  This enables
+modules that provide services to redirect their clients to the active
+daemon, if the client tries to connect to a standby.
+
+Consult the documentation pages for individual manager modules for more
+information about what functionality each module provides.
+
+Here is an example of enabling the ``dashboard`` module:
+
+::
+
+	$ ceph mgr module ls
+	{
+		"enabled_modules": [
+			"restful",
+			"status"
+		],
+		"disabled_modules": [
+			"dashboard"
+		]
+	}
+
+	$ ceph mgr module enable dashboard
+	$ ceph mgr module ls
+	{
+		"enabled_modules": [
+			"restful",
+			"status",
+			"dashboard"
+		],
+		"disabled_modules": [
+		]
+	}
+
+	$ ceph mgr services
+	{
+		"dashboard": "http://myserver.com:7789/",
+		"restful": "https://myserver.com:8789/"
+	}
+
+
+Calling module commands
+-----------------------
+
+Where a module implements command line hooks, the commands will
+be accessible as ordinary Ceph commands::
+
+    ceph <command | help>
+
+If you would like to see the list of commands handled by the
+manager (where normal ``ceph help`` would show all mon and mgr commands),
+you can send a command directly to the manager daemon::
+
+    ceph tell mgr help
+
+Note that it is not necessary to address a particular mgr instance,
+simply ``mgr`` will pick the current active daemon.
+
+Configuration
+-------------
+
+OPTION(mgr_module_path, OPT_STR, CEPH_PKGLIBDIR "/mgr") // where to load python modules from
+
+``mgr module path``
+
+:Description: Path to load modules from
+:Type: String
+:Default: ``"<library dir>/mgr"``
+
+``mgr data``
+
+:Description: Path to load daemon data (such as keyring)
+:Type: String
+:Default: ``"/var/lib/ceph/mgr/$cluster-$id"``
+
+``mgr tick period``
+
+:Description: How many seconds between mgr beacons to monitors, and other
+              periodic checks.
+:Type: Integer
+:Default: ``5``
+
+``mon mgr beacon grace``
+
+:Description: How long after last beacon should a mgr be considered failed
+:Type: Integer
+:Default: ``30``
+
+.. _Modifying User Capabilities: ../../rados/operations/user-management/#modify-user-capabilities