.TH ovsdb\-server 1 "@VERSION@" "Open vSwitch" "Open vSwitch Manual"
.\" This program's name:
.ds PN ovsdb\-server
-.\" SSL peer program's name:
-.ds SN ovsdb\-client
.
.SH NAME
ovsdb\-server \- Open vSwitch database server
[\fB\-\-remote=\fIremote\fR]\&...
[\fB\-\-run=\fIcommand\fR]
.so lib/daemon-syn.man
+.so lib/service-syn.man
.so lib/vlog-syn.man
+.so ovsdb/replication-syn.man
.so lib/ssl-syn.man
.so lib/ssl-bootstrap-syn.man
+.so lib/ssl-peer-ca-cert-syn.man
.so lib/unixctl-syn.man
.so lib/common-syn.man
.
.so ovsdb/remote-passive.man
.so ovsdb/remote-active.man
.
-.IP "\fBdb:\fR[\fIdb\fB,\fR]\fItable\fB,\fIcolumn\fR"
+.IP "\fBdb:\fIdb\fB,\fItable\fB,\fIcolumn\fR"
Reads additional connection methods from \fIcolumn\fR in all of the
-rows in \fItable\fR within \fIdb\fR. (If \fBovsdb\-server\fR is
-providing access to only one database, then \fIdb\fR is optional.) As
-the contents of \fIcolumn\fR changes, \fBovsdb\-server\fR also adds
-and drops connection methods accordingly.
+rows in \fItable\fR within \fIdb\fR. As the contents of \fIcolumn\fR changes,
+\fBovsdb\-server\fR also adds and drops connection methods accordingly.
.IP
If \fIcolumn\fR's type is string or set of strings, then the
connection methods are taken directly from the column. The connection
It is an error for \fIcolumn\fR to have another type.
.RE
.
+.IP
+To connect or listen on multiple connection methods, use multiple
+\fB\-\-remote\fR options.
+.
.IP "\fB\-\-run=\fIcommand\fR]"
Ordinarily \fBovsdb\-server\fR runs forever, or until it is told to
exit (see \fBRUNTIME MANAGEMENT COMMANDS\fR below). With this option,
This option can be useful where a database server is needed only to
run a single command, e.g.:
.B "ovsdb\-server \-\-remote=punix:socket \-\-run='ovsdb\-client dump unix:socket Open_vSwitch'"
+.IP
+This option is not supported on Windows platform.
.SS "Daemon Options"
.ds DD \
\fBovsdb\-server\fR detaches only after it starts listening on all \
configured remotes.
.so lib/daemon.man
+.SS "Service Options"
+.so lib/service.man
.SS "Logging Options"
.so lib/vlog.man
+.SS "Syncing Options"
+.so ovsdb/replication.man
.SS "Public Key Infrastructure Options"
The options described below for configuring the SSL public key
infrastructure accept a special syntax for obtaining their
configuration from the database. If any of these options is given
-\fBdb:\fR[\fIdb\fB,\fR]\fItable\fB,\fIcolumn\fR as its argument, then the
+\fBdb:\fIdb\fB,\fItable\fB,\fIcolumn\fR as its argument, then the
actual file name is read from the specified \fIcolumn\fR in \fItable\fR
-within the \fBovsdb\-server\fR database. The \fIcolumn\fR must have type
+within the \fIdb\fR database. The \fIcolumn\fR must have type
string or set of strings. The first nonempty string in the table is taken
as the file name. (This means that ordinarily there should be at most
one row in \fItable\fR.)
.so lib/ssl.man
.so lib/ssl-bootstrap.man
+.so lib/ssl-peer-ca-cert.man
.SS "Other Options"
.so lib/unixctl.man
.so lib/common.man
Causes \fBovsdb\-server\fR to gracefully terminate.
.IP "\fBovsdb\-server/compact\fR [\fIdb\fR]\&..."
Compacts each database \fIdb\fR in-place. If no \fIdb\fR is
-specified, compacts every database in-place. Databases are also
-automatically compacted occasionally.
+specified, compacts every database in-place. A database is also
+compacted automatically when a transaction is logged if it is over 4
+times as large as its previous compacted size (and at least 10 MB),
+but not before 100 commits have been added or 10 minutes have elapsed
+since the last compaction.
.
.IP "\fBovsdb\-server/reconnect\fR"
Makes \fBovsdb\-server\fR drop all of the JSON\-RPC
command only works with remotes that were named on \fB\-\-remote\fR or
\fBovsdb\-server/add\-remote\fR, that is, it will not remove remotes
added indirectly because they were read from the database by
-configuring a \fBdb:\fR[\fIdb\fB,\fR]\fItable\fB,\fIcolumn\fR remote.
+configuring a \fBdb:\fIdb\fB,\fItable\fB,\fIcolumn\fR remote.
(You can remove a database source with \fBovsdb\-server/remove\-remote
-\fBdb:\fR[\fIdb\fB,\fR]\fItable\fB,\fIcolumn\fR, but not individual
+\fBdb:\fIdb\fB,\fItable\fB,\fIcolumn\fR, but not individual
remotes found indirectly through the database.)
.
.IP "\fBovsdb\-server/list\-remotes"
\fB\-\-remote\fR or \fBovsdb\-server/add\-remote\fR, that is, it does
not list remotes added indirectly because they were read from the
database by configuring a
-\fBdb:\fR[\fIdb\fB,\fR]\fItable\fB,\fIcolumn\fR remote.
+\fBdb:\fIdb\fB,\fItable\fB,\fIcolumn\fR remote.
+.
+.IP "\fBovsdb\-server/add\-db \fIdatabase\fR"
+Adds the \fIdatabase\fR to the running \fBovsdb\-server\fR. The database
+file must already have been created and initialized using, for example,
+\fBovsdb\-tool create\fR.
+.
+.IP "\fBovsdb\-server/remove\-db \fIdatabase\fR"
+Removes \fIdatabase\fR from the running \fBovsdb\-server\fR. \fIdatabase\fR
+must be a database name as listed by \fBovsdb-server/list\-dbs\fR.
+.IP
+If a remote has been configured that points to the specified
+\fIdatabase\fR (e.g. \fB\-\-remote=db:\fIdatabase\fB,\fR... on the
+command line), then it will be disabled until another database with
+the same name is added again (with \fBovsdb\-server/add\-db\fR).
+.IP
+Any public key infrastructure options specified through this database
+(e.g. \fB\-\-private\-key=db:\fIdatabase,\fR... on the command line)
+will be disabled until another database with the same name is added
+again (with \fBovsdb\-server/add\-db\fR).
+.
+.IP "\fBovsdb\-server/list\-dbs"
+Outputs a list of the currently configured databases added either through
+the command line or through the \fBovsdb\-server/add\-db\fR command.
.
.so lib/vlog-unixctl.man
.so lib/memory-unixctl.man
.so lib/coverage-unixctl.man
-.so lib/stress-unixctl.man
+.SH "SPECIFICATIONS"
+.
+.PP
+\fBovsdb\-server\fR implements the Open vSwitch Database (OVSDB)
+protocol specified in RFC 7047, with the following clarifications:
+.
+.IP "3.1. JSON Usage"
+RFC 4627 says that names within a JSON object should be unique.
+The Open vSwitch JSON parser discards all but the last value
+for a name that is specified more than once.
+.
+.IP
+The definition of <error> allows for implementation extensions.
+Currently \fBovsdb\-server\fR uses the following additional "error"
+strings which might change in later releases):
+.
+.RS
+.IP "\fBsyntax error\fR or \fBunknown column\fR"
+The request could not be parsed as an OVSDB request. An additional
+"syntax" member, whose value is a string that contains JSON, may
+narrow down the particular syntax that could not be parsed.
+.IP "\fBinternal error\fR"
+The request triggered a bug in \fBovsdb\-server\fR.
+.IP "\fBovsdb error\fR"
+A map or set contains a duplicate key.
+.RE
+.
+.IP "3.2. Schema Format"
+RFC 7047 requires the "version" field in <database-schema>. Current
+versions of \fBovsdb\-server\fR allow it to be omitted (future
+versions are likely to require it).
+.IP
+RFC 7047 allows columns that contain weak references to be immutable.
+This raises the issue of the behavior of the weak reference when the
+rows that it references are deleted. Since version 2.6,
+\fBovsdb\-server\fR forces columns that contain weak references to be
+mutable.
+.
+.IP "4. Wire Protocol"
+The original OVSDB specifications included the following reason,
+omitted from RFC 7047, to operate JSON-RPC directly over a stream
+instead of over HTTP:
+.
+.RS
+.IP \(bu
+JSON-RPC is a peer-to-peer protocol, but HTTP is a client-server
+protocol, which is a poor match. Thus, JSON-RPC over HTTP requires
+the client to periodically poll the server to receive server requests.
+.IP \(bu
+HTTP is more complicated than stream connections and doesn't provide
+any corresponding advantage.
+.IP \(bu
+The JSON-RPC specification for HTTP transport is incomplete.
+.RE
+.
+.IP "4.1.5. Monitor"
+For backward compatibility, \fBovsdb\-server\fR currently permits a
+single <monitor-request> to be used instead of an array; it is treated
+as a single-element array. Future versions of \fBovsdb\-server\fR
+might remove this compatibility feature.
+.IP
+Because the <json-value> parameter is used to match subsequent update
+notifications (see below) to the request, it must be unique among all
+active monitors. \fBovsdb\-server\fR rejects attempt to create two
+monitors with the same identifier.
+.
+.IP "4.1.12. Monitor_cond"
+A new monitor method added in Open vSwitch version 2.5. The monitor_cond
+request enables a client to replicate subsets of tables within an OVSDB
+database by requesting notifications of changes to rows matching one of
+the conditions specified in "where" by receiving the specified contents
+of these rows when table updates occur. Monitor_cond also allows a more
+efficient update notifications by receiving table-updates2 notifications
+(described below).
+.
+.IP
+The monitor method described in Section 4.1.5 also applies to monitor_cond,
+with the following exceptions:
+.
+.RS
+.IP \(bu
+RPC request method becomes "monitor_cond".
+.IP \(bu
+Reply result follows <table-updates2>, described in Section 4.1.14.
+.IP \(bu
+Subsequent changes are sent to the client using the "update2" monitor
+notification, described in Section 4.1.14
+.IP \(bu
+Update notifications are being sent only for rows matching [<condition>*].
+.RE
+.
+.IP
+The request object has the following members:
+.
+.PP
+.RS
+.nf
+"method": "monitor_cond"
+"params": [<db-name>, <json-value>, <monitor-cond-requests>]
+"id": <nonnull-json-value>
+.fi
+.RE
+.
+.IP
+The <json-value> parameter is used to match subsequent update notifications
+(see below) to this request. The <monitor-cond-requests> object maps the name
+of the table to an array of <monitor-cond-request>.
+.
+.IP
+Each <monitor-cond-request> is an object with the following members:
+.
+.PP
+.RS
+.nf
+"columns": [<column>*] optional
+"where": [<condition>*] optional
+"select": <monitor-select> optional
+.fi
+.RE
+.
+.IP
+The "columns", if present, define the columns within the table to be monitored
+that match conditions. If not present all columns are being monitored.
+.
+.IP
+The "where" if present is a JSON array of <condition> and boolean values. If not
+present or condition is an empty array, implicit True will be considered and
+updates on all rows will be sent.
+.
+.IP
+<monitor-select> is an object with the following members:
+.
+.PP
+.RS
+.nf
+"initial": <boolean> optional
+"insert": <boolean> optional
+"delete": <boolean> optional
+"modify": <boolean> optional
+.fi
+.RE
+.
+.IP
+The contents of this object specify how the columns or table are to be
+monitored as explained in more detail below.
+.
+.IP
+The response object has the following members:
+.
+.PP
+.RS
+.nf
+"result": <table-updates2>
+"error": null
+"id": same "id" as request
+.fi
+.RE
+.
+.IP
+The <table-updates2> object is described in detail in Section 4.1.14. It
+contains the contents of the tables for which "initial" rows are selected.
+If no tables initial contents are requested, then "result" is an empty object.
+.
+.IP
+Subsequently, when changes to a specified table that match one of the conditions
+in monitor-cond-request are committed, the changes are automatically sent to the
+client using the "update2" monitor notification (see Section 4.1.14). This
+monitoring persists until the JSON-RPC session terminates or until the client
+sends a "monitor_cancel" JSON-RPC request.
+.
+.IP
+Each <monitor-cond-request> specifies one or more conditions and the manner in
+which the rows that match the conditions are to be monitored. The circumstances in
+which an "update" notification is sent for a row within the table are determined by
+<monitor-select>:
+.
+.RS
+.IP \(bu
+If "initial" is omitted or true, every row in the original table that matches one of
+the conditions is sent as part of the response to the "monitor_cond" request.
+.IP \(bu
+If "insert" is omitted or true, "update" notifications are sent for rows newly
+inserted into the table that match conditions or for rows modified in the table
+so that their old version does not match the condition and new version does.
+.IP \(bu
+If "delete" is omitted or true, "update" notifications are sent for rows deleted
+from the table that match conditions or for rows modified in the table so that
+their old version does match the conditions and new version does not.
+.IP \(bu
+If "modify" is omitted or true, "update" notifications are sent whenever a row in
+the table that matches conditions in both old and new version is modified.
+.RE
+.
+.IP
+Both monitor and monitor_cond sessions can exist concurrently. However,
+monitor and monitor_cond shares the same <json-value> parameter space; it
+must be unique among all monitor and monitor_cond sessions.
+.
+.IP "4.1.14. Update2 notification"
+The "update2" notification is sent by the server to the client to report
+changes in tables that are being monitored following a "monitor_cond" request
+as described above. The notification has the following members:
+.
+.RS
+.nf
+"method": "update2"
+"params": [<json-value>, <table-updates2>]
+"id": null
+.fi
+.RE
+.
+.IP
+The <json-value> in "params" is the same as the value passed as the
+<json-value> in "params" for the corresponding "monitor" request.
+<table-updates2> is an object that maps from a table name to a <table-update2>.
+A <table-update2> is an object that maps from row's UUID to a <row-update2>
+object. A <row-update2> is an object with one of the following members:
+.
+.RS
+.IP "\(dqinitial\(dq: <row>"
+present for "initial" updates
+.IP "\(dqinsert\(dq: <row>"
+present for "insert" updates
+.IP "\(dqdelete\(dq: <row>"
+present for "delete" updates
+.IP "\(dqmodify\(dq: <row>"
+present for "modify" updates
+.RE
+.
+.IP
+The format of <row> is described in Section 5.1.
+.
+.IP
+<row> is always a null object for a "delete" update. In "initial" and
+"insert" updates, <row> omits columns whose values equal the default
+value of the column type.
+.
+.IP
+For a "modify" update, <row> contains only the columns that are modified.
+<row> stores the difference between the old and new value for those columns,
+as described below.
+.
+.IP
+For columns with single value, the difference is the value of the new
+column.
+.
+.IP
+The difference between two sets are all elements that only belong
+to one of the sets.
+.
+.IP
+The difference between two maps are all key-value pairs whose keys
+appears in only one of the maps, plus the key-value pairs whose keys
+appear in both maps but with different values. For the latter
+elements, <row> includes the value from the new column.
+.
+.IP
+Initial views of rows are not presented in update2 notifications,
+but in the response object to the monitor_cond request. The formatting
+of the <table-updates2> object, however, is the same in either case.
+.
+.IP "5.1. Notation"
+For <condition>, RFC 7047 only allows the use of \fB!=\fR, \fB==\fR,
+\fBincludes\fR, and \fBexcludes\fR operators with set types. Open
+vSwitch 2.4 and later extend <condition> to allow the use of \fB<\fR,
+\fB<=\fR, \fB>=\fR, and \fB>\fR operators with columns with type ``set
+of 0 or 1 integer'' and ``set of 0 or 1 real''. These conditions
+evaluate to false when the column is empty, and otherwise as described
+in RFC 7047 for integer and real types.
+.
+.IP
+<condition> is specified in Section 5.1 in the RFC with the following change:
+A condition can be either a 3-element JSON array as described in the RFC or a
+boolean value. In case of an empty array an implicit true boolean value will be
+considered.
+.
+.SH "BUGS"
+.
+In Open vSwitch before version 2.4, when \fBovsdb\-server\fR sent
+JSON-RPC error responses to some requests, it incorrectly formulated
+them with the \fBresult\fR and \fBerror\fR swapped, so that the
+response appeared to indicate success (with a nonsensical result)
+rather than an error. The requests that suffered from this problem
+were:
+.
+.IP \fBtransact\fR
+.IQ \fBget_schema\fR
+Only if the request names a nonexistent database.
+.IP \fBmonitor\fR
+.IQ \fBlock\fR
+.IQ \fBunlock\fR
+In all error cases.
+.
+.PP
+Of these cases, the only error that a well-written application is
+likely to encounter in practice is \fBmonitor\fR of tables or columns
+that do not exist, in an situation where the application has been
+upgraded but the old database schema is still temporarily in use. To
+handle this situation gracefully, we recommend that clients should
+treat a \fBmonitor\fR response with a \fBresult\fR that contains an
+\fBerror\fR key-value pair as an error (assuming that the database
+being monitored does not contain a table named \fBerror\fR).
+.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.
.BR ovsdb\-tool (1).
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