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+.TH KDUMPCTL 8 2015-07-13 kexec-tools
+
+.SH NAME
+kdumpctl \- control interface for kdump
+
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+.B kdumpctl
+.I COMMAND
+
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+.B kdumpctl
+is used to check or control the kdump service.
+In most cases, you should use
+.B systemctl
+to start / stop / enable kdump service instead. However,
+.B kdumpctl
+provides more details for debug and a helper to setup ssh key authentication.
+
+.SH COMMANDS
+.TP
+.I start
+Start the service.
+.TP
+.I stop
+Stop the service.
+.TP
+.I status
+Prints the current status of kdump service.
+It returns non-zero value if kdump is not operational.
+.TP
+.I restart
+Is equal to
+.I start; stop
+.TP
+.I reload
+reload crash kernel image and initramfs without triggering a rebuild.
+.TP
+.I rebuild
+rebuild the crash kernel initramfs.
+.TP
+.I propagate
+Helps to setup key authentication for ssh storage since it's
+impossible to use password authentication during kdump.
+.TP
+.I showmem
+Prints the size of reserved memory for crash kernel in megabytes.
+
+.SH "SEE ALSO"
+.BR kdump.conf (5),
+.BR mkdumprd (8)