MaxScale Binlog Server HOWTO: Operations (including Chaining)

In the Install and Configure HOWTO, we learned how to install and configure a MaxScale Binlog Server.  In this HOWTO, I will present the common operations that you might need to perform when using this software.  Those operations include:

• Purging Binary Logs,
• Chaining Binlog Servers,
• Saving Binary Log Files in the Non-Default Directory,
• Downloading Binary Logs other than First,
• Listing Connected Slaves,
• Disconnecting one or all Slaves,
• Differentiating a MaxScale from a MySQL Server,
• Getting More Information about Slaves (and more),
• Recovering After a Crash.