7 .TH ovn\-controller 8 "@VERSION@" "Open vSwitch" "Open vSwitch Manual"
11 ovn\-controller \- OVN local controller
14 \fBovn\-controller\fR [\fIoptions\fR]
17 \fBovn\-controller\fR is the local controller daemon for OVN, the Open
18 Virtual Network. It connects up to the OVN Southbound database (see
19 \fBovn\-sb\fR(5)) over the OVSDB protocol, and down to the Open
20 vSwitch database (see \fBovs-vswitchd.conf.db\fR(5)) over the OVSDB
21 protocol and to \fBovs\-vswitchd\fR(8) via OpenFlow. Each hypervisor
22 and software gateway in an OVN deployment runs its own independent
23 copy of \fBovn\-controller\fR; thus, \fBovn\-controller\fR's
24 southbound connections are machine-local and do not run over a
27 XXX this is completely skeletal.
30 .SS "Public Key Infrastructure Options"
32 .so lib/ssl-peer-ca-cert.man
41 \fBovn\-architecture\fR(7)