5 Communicating with Running pies Instances

The piesctl tool allows you to communicate with the running pies program. The invocation syntax is:

piesctl [options] command [args...]

The command determines the operation to perform. The following sections describe available commands in detail.

• piesctl id – Return Info About the Running Instance
• Instance Management
• piesctl config – Configuration Management
• Component Management
• Init Process Management
• Piesctl Command Line Options
• Configuration for piesctl