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| author | Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com> | 2010-08-02 16:04:47 -0700 |
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| committer | Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com> | 2010-08-02 16:04:47 -0700 |
| commit | 8084a2800f82c6d0ec438cb8f2de24518af2c712 (patch) | |
| tree | 0f80dee9e74cc5f4664821ba47adc2528d645195 /INSTALL.Linux | |
| parent | 05d09469058bd78c12bfc60af6093bcbce1901da (diff) | |
INSTALL.Linux: Improve suggested ovsdb-server invocation.
ovsdb-server should ordinarily connect to managers specified in the
database itself, as well as use the SSL configuration specified in the
database, but the suggested ovsdb-server command line didn't do that.
This commit adds all the relevant arguments that the XenServer integration
passes by default.
Reported-by: Hao Zheng <hzheng@nicira.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'INSTALL.Linux')
| -rw-r--r-- | INSTALL.Linux | 13 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/INSTALL.Linux b/INSTALL.Linux index 7cfba409..3088f8cb 100644 --- a/INSTALL.Linux +++ b/INSTALL.Linux @@ -238,9 +238,16 @@ Before starting ovs-vswitchd itself, you need to start its configuration database, ovsdb-server. Each machine on which Open vSwitch is installed should run its own copy of ovsdb-server. Configure it to use the database you created during step 7 of -installation, above, and to listen on a Unix domain socket, e.g.: - - % ovsdb-server /usr/local/etc/ovs-vswitchd.conf.db --remote=punix:/usr/local/var/run/openvswitch/db.sock +installation, above, to listen on a Unix domain socket, to connect to +any managers specified in the database itself, and to use the SSL +configuration in the database: + + % ovsdb-server /usr/local/etc/ovs-vswitchd.conf.db \ + --remote=punix:/usr/local/var/run/openvswitch/db.sock \ + --remote=db:Open_vSwitch,managers \ + --private-key=db:SSL,private_key \ + --certificate=db:SSL,certificate \ + --bootstrap-ca-cert=db:SSL,ca_cert Then initialize the database using ovs-vsctl. This is only necessary the first time after you create the database with |