# Command-line Utilities

In this section you will find information on Nova’s command line utilities.

## Nova Management Commands

These commands are used to manage existing installations. They are designed to be run by operators in an environment where they have direct access to the nova database.

- nova-manage
- nova-policy
- nova-status

## Service Daemons

The service daemons make up a functioning nova environment. All of these are expected to be started by an init system, expect to read a nova.conf file, and daemonize correctly after starting up.

- nova-compute
- nova-conductor
- nova-novncproxy
- nova-scheduler
- nova-serialproxy
- nova-spicehtml5proxy

## WSGI Services

Starting in the 2025.2 release, the only way to deploy the compute and metadata APIs is via WSGI (uwsgi or apache/mod_wsgi). Refer to Using WSGI with Nova for more information.

## Additional Tools

There are a few additional cli tools which nova services call when appropriate. This should not need to be called directly by operators, but they are documented for completeness and debugging if something goes wrong.

- nova-rootwrap

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