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+#Managing the glusterd Service
+
+After installing GlusterFS, you must start glusterd service. The
+glusterd service serves as the Gluster elastic volume manager,
+overseeing glusterfs processes, and co-ordinating dynamic volume
+operations, such as adding and removing volumes across multiple storage
+servers non-disruptively.
+
+This section describes how to start the glusterd service in the
+following ways:
+
+- [Starting and Stopping glusterd Manually](#manual)
+- [Starting glusterd Automatically](#auto)
+
+> **Note**: You must start glusterd on all GlusterFS servers.
+
+<a name="manual" />
+##Starting and Stopping glusterd Manually
+
+This section describes how to start and stop glusterd manually
+
+-   To start glusterd manually, enter the following command:
+
+    `# /etc/init.d/glusterd start `
+
+-   To stop glusterd manually, enter the following command:
+
+    `# /etc/init.d/glusterd stop`
+
+<a name="auto" />
+##Starting glusterd Automatically
+
+This section describes how to configure the system to automatically
+start the glusterd service every time the system boots.
+
+###Red Hat and Fedora distros
+
+To configure Red Hat-based systems to automatically start the glusterd
+service every time the system boots, enter the following from the
+command line:
+
+`# chkconfig glusterd on `
+
+###Debian and derivatives like Ubuntu
+
+To configure Debian-based systems to automatically start the glusterd
+service every time the system boots, enter the following from the
+command line:
+
+`# update-rc.d glusterd defaults`
+
+###Systems Other than Red Hat and Debain
+
+To configure systems other than Red Hat or Debian to automatically start
+the glusterd service every time the system boots, enter the following
+entry to the*/etc/rc.local* file:
+
+`# echo "glusterd" >> /etc/rc.local `