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doc/rados: improve leader/peon monitor explanation
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**What does it mean when a Monitor's state is ``leader`` or ``peon``?**
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During normal Ceph operations when the cluster is in the ``HEALTH_OK`` state,
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one monitor in the Ceph cluster is in the ``leader`` state and the rest of
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the monitors are in the ``peon`` state. The state of a given monitor can be
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determined by examining the value of the state key returned by the command
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``ceph tell <mon_name> mon_status``.
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If ``ceph health detail`` shows that the Monitor is in the ``leader`` state
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or in the ``peon`` state, it is likely that clock skew is present. Follow the
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instructions in `Clock Skews`_. If you have followed those instructions and

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