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+CLI API Commands Module
+=======================
+
+The CLI API module exposes most ceph-mgr python API via CLI. Furthermore, this API can be
+benchmarked for further testing.
+
+Enabling
+--------
+
+The *cli api commands* module is enabled with::
+
+ ceph mgr module enable cli_api
+
+To check that it is enabled, run::
+
+ ceph mgr module ls | grep cli_api
+
+Usage
+--------
+
+To run a mgr module command, run::
+
+ ceph mgr cli <command> <param>
+
+For example, use the following command to print the list of servers::
+
+ ceph mgr cli list_servers
+
+List all available mgr module commands with::
+
+ ceph mgr cli --help
+
+To benchmark a command, run::
+
+ ceph mgr cli_benchmark <number of calls> <number of threads> <command> <param>
+
+For example, use the following command to benchmark the command to get osd_map::
+
+ ceph mgr cli_benchmark 100 10 get osd_map