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6 ovn-ic - Open Virtual Network interconnection controller
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9 ovn-ic [options]
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12 ovn-ic, OVN interconnection controller, is a centralized daemon which
13 communicates with global interconnection databases IC_NB/IC_SB to con‐
14 figure and exchange data with local NB/SB for interconnecting with
15 other OVN deployments.
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18 --ovnnb-db=database
19 The OVSDB database containing the OVN Northbound Database. If
20 the OVN_NB_DB environment variable is set, its value is used as
21 the default. Otherwise, the default is unix:/ovnnb_db.sock.
22 --ovnsb-db=database
24 The OVSDB database containing the OVN Southbound Database. If
25 the OVN_SB_DB environment variable is set, its value is used as
26 the default. Otherwise, the default is unix:/ovnsb_db.sock.
27 --ic-nb-db=database
29 The OVSDB database containing the OVN Interconnection Northbound
30 Database. If the OVN_IC_NB_DB environment variable is set, its
31 value is used as the default. Otherwise, the default is
32 unix:/ovn_ic_nb_db.sock.
33 --ic-sb-db=database
35 The OVSDB database containing the OVN Interconnection Southbound
36 Database. If the OVN_IC_SB_DB environment variable is set, its
37 value is used as the default. Otherwise, the default is
38 unix:/ovn_ic_sb_db.sock.
39 database in the above options must be an OVSDB active or passive con‐
41 nection method, as described in ovsdb(7).
42 Daemon Options
44 --pidfile[=pidfile]
45 Causes a file (by default, program.pid) to be created indicating
46 the PID of the running process. If the pidfile argument is not
47 specified, or if it does not begin with /, then it is created in
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49 If --pidfile is not specified, no pidfile is created.
51 --overwrite-pidfile
53 By default, when --pidfile is specified and the specified pid‐
54 file already exists and is locked by a running process, the dae‐
55 mon refuses to start. Specify --overwrite-pidfile to cause it to
56 instead overwrite the pidfile.
57 When --pidfile is not specified, this option has no effect.
59 --detach
61 Runs this program as a background process. The process forks,
62 and in the child it starts a new session, closes the standard
63 file descriptors (which has the side effect of disabling logging
64 to the console), and changes its current directory to the root
65 (unless --no-chdir is specified). After the child completes its
66 initialization, the parent exits.
67 --monitor
69 Creates an additional process to monitor this program. If it
70 dies due to a signal that indicates a programming error (SIGA‐
71 BRT, SIGALRM, SIGBUS, SIGFPE, SIGILL, SIGPIPE, SIGSEGV, SIGXCPU,
72 or SIGXFSZ) then the monitor process starts a new copy of it. If
73 the daemon dies or exits for another reason, the monitor process
74 exits.
75 This option is normally used with --detach, but it also func‐
77 tions without it.
78 --no-chdir
80 By default, when --detach is specified, the daemon changes its
81 current working directory to the root directory after it de‐
82 taches. Otherwise, invoking the daemon from a carelessly chosen
83 directory would prevent the administrator from unmounting the
84 file system that holds that directory.
85 Specifying --no-chdir suppresses this behavior, preventing the
87 daemon from changing its current working directory. This may be
88 useful for collecting core files, since it is common behavior to
89 write core dumps into the current working directory and the root
90 directory is not a good directory to use.
91 This option has no effect when --detach is not specified.
93 --no-self-confinement
95 By default this daemon will try to self-confine itself to work
96 with files under well-known directories determined at build
97 time. It is better to stick with this default behavior and not
98 to use this flag unless some other Access Control is used to
99 confine daemon. Note that in contrast to other access control
100 implementations that are typically enforced from kernel-space
101 (e.g. DAC or MAC), self-confinement is imposed from the user-
102 space daemon itself and hence should not be considered as a full
103 confinement strategy, but instead should be viewed as an addi‐
104 tional layer of security.
105 --user=user:group
107 Causes this program to run as a different user specified in
108 user:group, thus dropping most of the root privileges. Short
109 forms user and :group are also allowed, with current user or
110 group assumed, respectively. Only daemons started by the root
111 user accepts this argument.
112 On Linux, daemons will be granted CAP_IPC_LOCK and
114 CAP_NET_BIND_SERVICES before dropping root privileges. Daemons
115 that interact with a datapath, such as ovs-vswitchd, will be
116 granted three additional capabilities, namely CAP_NET_ADMIN,
117 CAP_NET_BROADCAST and CAP_NET_RAW. The capability change will
118 apply even if the new user is root.
119 On Windows, this option is not currently supported. For security
121 reasons, specifying this option will cause the daemon process
122 not to start.
123 Logging Options
125 -v[spec]
126 --verbose=[spec]
127 Sets logging levels. Without any spec, sets the log level for ev‐
128 ery module and destination to dbg. Otherwise, spec is a list of
129 words separated by spaces or commas or colons, up to one from each
130 category below:
131 • A valid module name, as displayed by the vlog/list command
133 on ovs-appctl(8), limits the log level change to the speci‐
134 fied module.
135 • syslog, console, or file, to limit the log level change to
137 only to the system log, to the console, or to a file, re‐
138 spectively. (If --detach is specified, the daemon closes
139 its standard file descriptors, so logging to the console
140 will have no effect.)
141 On Windows platform, syslog is accepted as a word and is
143 only useful along with the --syslog-target option (the word
144 has no effect otherwise).
145 • off, emer, err, warn, info, or dbg, to control the log
147 level. Messages of the given severity or higher will be
148 logged, and messages of lower severity will be filtered
149 out. off filters out all messages. See ovs-appctl(8) for a
150 definition of each log level.
151 Case is not significant within spec.
153 Regardless of the log levels set for file, logging to a file will
155 not take place unless --log-file is also specified (see below).
156 For compatibility with older versions of OVS, any is accepted as a
158 word but has no effect.
159 -v
161 --verbose
162 Sets the maximum logging verbosity level, equivalent to --ver‐
163 bose=dbg.
164 -vPATTERN:destination:pattern
166 --verbose=PATTERN:destination:pattern
167 Sets the log pattern for destination to pattern. Refer to ovs-ap‐
168 pctl(8) for a description of the valid syntax for pattern.
169 -vFACILITY:facility
171 --verbose=FACILITY:facility
172 Sets the RFC5424 facility of the log message. facility can be one
173 of kern, user, mail, daemon, auth, syslog, lpr, news, uucp, clock,
174 ftp, ntp, audit, alert, clock2, local0, local1, local2, local3,
175 local4, local5, local6 or local7. If this option is not specified,
176 daemon is used as the default for the local system syslog and lo‐
177 cal0 is used while sending a message to the target provided via
178 the --syslog-target option.
179 --log-file[=file]
181 Enables logging to a file. If file is specified, then it is used
182 as the exact name for the log file. The default log file name used
183 if file is omitted is /var/log/ovn/program.log.
184 --syslog-target=host:port
186 Send syslog messages to UDP port on host, in addition to the sys‐
187 tem syslog. The host must be a numerical IP address, not a host‐
188 name.
189 --syslog-method=method
191 Specify method as how syslog messages should be sent to syslog
192 daemon. The following forms are supported:
193 • libc, to use the libc syslog() function. Downside of using
195 this options is that libc adds fixed prefix to every mes‐
196 sage before it is actually sent to the syslog daemon over
197 /dev/log UNIX domain socket.
198 • unix:file, to use a UNIX domain socket directly. It is pos‐
200 sible to specify arbitrary message format with this option.
201 However, rsyslogd 8.9 and older versions use hard coded
202 parser function anyway that limits UNIX domain socket use.
203 If you want to use arbitrary message format with older
204 rsyslogd versions, then use UDP socket to localhost IP ad‐
205 dress instead.
206 • udp:ip:port, to use a UDP socket. With this method it is
208 possible to use arbitrary message format also with older
209 rsyslogd. When sending syslog messages over UDP socket ex‐
210 tra precaution needs to be taken into account, for example,
211 syslog daemon needs to be configured to listen on the spec‐
212 ified UDP port, accidental iptables rules could be inter‐
213 fering with local syslog traffic and there are some secu‐
214 rity considerations that apply to UDP sockets, but do not
215 apply to UNIX domain sockets.
216 • null, to discard all messages logged to syslog.
218 The default is taken from the OVS_SYSLOG_METHOD environment vari‐
220 able; if it is unset, the default is libc.
221 PKI Options
223 PKI configuration is required in order to use SSL for the connections
224 to the Northbound and Southbound databases.
225 -p privkey.pem
227 --private-key=privkey.pem
228 Specifies a PEM file containing the private key used as
229 identity for outgoing SSL connections.
230 -c cert.pem
232 --certificate=cert.pem
233 Specifies a PEM file containing a certificate that certi‐
234 fies the private key specified on -p or --private-key to be
235 trustworthy. The certificate must be signed by the certifi‐
236 cate authority (CA) that the peer in SSL connections will
237 use to verify it.
238 -C cacert.pem
240 --ca-cert=cacert.pem
241 Specifies a PEM file containing the CA certificate for ver‐
242 ifying certificates presented to this program by SSL peers.
243 (This may be the same certificate that SSL peers use to
244 verify the certificate specified on -c or --certificate, or
245 it may be a different one, depending on the PKI design in
246 use.)
247 -C none
249 --ca-cert=none
250 Disables verification of certificates presented by SSL
251 peers. This introduces a security risk, because it means
252 that certificates cannot be verified to be those of known
253 trusted hosts.
254 Other Options
256 --unixctl=socket
257 Sets the name of the control socket on which program listens for
258 runtime management commands (see RUNTIME MANAGEMENT COMMANDS,
259 below). If socket does not begin with /, it is interpreted as
260 relative to . If --unixctl is not used at all, the default
261 socket is /program.pid.ctl, where pid is program’s process ID.
262 On Windows a local named pipe is used to listen for runtime man‐
264 agement commands. A file is created in the absolute path as
265 pointed by socket or if --unixctl is not used at all, a file is
266 created as program in the configured OVS_RUNDIR directory. The
267 file exists just to mimic the behavior of a Unix domain socket.
268 Specifying none for socket disables the control socket feature.
270 -h
274 --help
275 Prints a brief help message to the console.
276 -V
278 --version
279 Prints version information to the console.
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282 ovs-appctl can send commands to a running ovn-ic process. The currently
283 supported commands are described below.
284 exit Causes ovn-ic to gracefully terminate.
286 pause Pauses the ovn-ic operation from processing any database
288 changes. This will also instruct ovn-ic to drop any lock
289 on SB DB.
290 resume Resumes the ovn-ic operation to process database con‐
292 tents. This will also instruct ovn-northd to aspire for
293 the lock on SB DB.
294 is-paused
296 Returns "true" if ovn-ic is currently paused, "false"
297 otherwise.
298 status Prints this server’s status. Status will be "active" if
300 ovn-ic has acquired OVSDB lock on SB DB, "standby" if it
301 has not or "paused" if this instance is paused.
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304 You may run ovn-ic more than once in an OVN deployment. When connected
305 to a standalone or clustered DB setup, OVN will automatically ensure
306 that only one of them is active at a time. If multiple instances of
307 ovn-ic are running and the active ovn-ic fails, one of the hot standby
308 instances of ovn-ic will automatically take over.
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