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NAME

       ovs-appctl - utility for configuring running Open vSwitch daemons

SYNOPSIS

       ovs-appctl  [--target=``<target>  |  ``-t  <target>]  [--timeout=``<secs>  |  ``-T <secs>]
       <command> [<arg>…]

       ovs-appctl --help

       ovs-appctl --version

DESCRIPTION

       Open vSwitch daemons accept certain commands at runtime  to  control  their  behavior  and
       query  their  settings.   Every  daemon  accepts a common set of commands documented under
       Common Commands below.  Some daemons support additional commands documented in  their  own
       manpages.   ovs-vswitchd  in particular accepts a number of additional commands documented
       in ovs-vswitchd(8).

       The ovs-appctl program provides a simple way to invoke these commands.  The command to  be
       sent  is specified on ovs-appctl’s command line as non-option arguments.  ovs-appctl sends
       the command and prints the daemon’s response on standard output.

       In normal use only a single option is accepted:

       • -t <target> or --target <target>

         Tells ovs-appctl which daemon to contact.

         If <target> begins with / it must name a Unix domain socket on  which  an  Open  vSwitch
         daemon is listening for control channel connections.  By default, each daemon listens on
         a Unix domain  socket  in  the  rundir  (e.g.  /run)  named  <program>.<pid>.ctl,  where
         <program>  is  the  program’s  name  and  <pid>  is  its  process  ID.   For example, if
         ovs-vswitchd has PID 123, it would listen on ovs-vswitchd.123.ctl.

         Otherwise, ovs-appctl looks in the rundir for a pidfile, that is, a file whose  contents
         are  the  process ID of a running process as a decimal number, named <target>.pid.  (The
         --pidfile option makes an Open vSwitch daemon create a pidfile.)  ovs-appctl  reads  the
         pidfile,  then  looks  in  the  rundir for a Unix socket named <target>.<pid>.ctl, where
         <pid> is replaced by the process ID read from the pidfile, and uses that file as  if  it
         had been specified directly as the target.

         On  Windows,  <target>  can  be an absolute path to a file that contains a localhost TCP
         port on which an Open vSwitch daemon is listening for control  channel  connections.  By
         default, each daemon writes the TCP port on which it is listening for control connection
         into the file <program>.ctl located inside the rundir. If <target> is  not  an  absolute
         path,  ovs-appctl looks in the rundir for a file named <target>.ctl.  The default target
         is ovs-vswitchd.

       • -T <secs> or --timeout=<secs>

         By default, or with a <secs> of 0, ovs-appctl waits forever to connect to the daemon and
         receive a response.  This option limits runtime to approximately <secs> seconds.  If the
         timeout expires, ovs-appctl exits with a SIGALRM signal.

COMMON COMMANDS

       Every Open vSwitch daemon supports a common set of commands, which are documented in  this
       section.

   General Commands
       These  commands display daemon-specific commands and the running version.  Note that these
       commands are different from the --help and --version options that return information about
       the ovs-appctl utility itself.

       • list-commands

         Lists the commands supported by the target.

       • version

         Displays the version and compilation date of the target.

   Logging Commands
       Open vSwitch has several log levels.  The highest-severity log level is:

       • off

         No message is ever logged at this level, so setting a logging destination’s log level to
         off disables logging to that destination.

       The following log levels, in order of descending severity, are available:

       • emer

         A major failure forced a process to abort.

       • err

         A high-level operation or a subsystem failed.  Attention is warranted.

       • warn

         A low-level operation failed, but higher-level subsystems may be able to recover.

       • info

         Information that may be useful in retrospect when investigating a problem.

       • dbg

         Information useful only to someone with intricate knowledge of the system, or that would
         commonly  cause too-voluminous log output.  Log messages at this level are not logged by
         default.

       Every Open vSwitch daemon supports the following commands for examining and adjusting  log
       levels:

       • vlog/list

         Lists the known logging modules and their current levels.

       • vlog/list-pattern

         Lists logging pattern used for each destination.

       • vlog/set [<spec>]

         Sets  logging  levels.   Without  any  <spec>,  sets  the log level for every module and
         destination to dbg.  Otherwise, <spec> is a list of words separated by spaces or  commas
         or colons, up to one from each category below:

         • A  valid  module  name, as displayed by the vlog/list command on ovs-appctl(8), limits
           the log level change to the specified module.

         • syslog, console, or file, to limit the log level change to only to the system log,  to
           the console, or to a file, respectively.

           On  Windows  platform,  syslog  is  only  useful  if  <target>  was  started  with the
           --syslog-target option (it has no effect otherwise).

         • off, emer, err, warn, info, or dbg, to control the log level.  Messages of  the  given
           severity  or  higher  will  be logged, and messages of lower severity will be filtered
           out.  off filters out all messages.

         Case is not significant within <spec>.

         Regardless of the log levels set for file, logging to a file will not take place  unless
         the target application was invoked with the --log-file option.

         For  compatibility  with older versions of OVS, any is accepted within <spec> but it has
         no effect.

       • vlog/set PATTERN:<destination>:<pattern>

         Sets the log pattern for <destination> to <pattern>.  Each time a message is  logged  to
         <destination>,  <pattern>  determines  the  message’s  formatting.   Most  characters in
         <pattern> are copied literally to the log, but special  escapes  beginning  with  %  are
         expanded as follows:

         • %A

           The name of the application logging the message, e.g. ovs-vswitchd.

         • %B

           The RFC5424 syslog PRI of the message.

         • %c

           The name of the module (as shown by ovs-appctl --list) logging the message.

         • %d

           The current date and time in ISO 8601 format (YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS).

         • %d{<format>}

           The  current  date  and time in the specified <format>, which takes the same format as
           the <template> argument to strftime(3).  As an extension, any # characters in <format>
           will  be  replaced  by  fractional  seconds, e.g. use %H:%M:%S.### for the time to the
           nearest millisecond.  Sub-second times are  only  approximate  and  currently  decimal
           places after the third will always be reported as zero.

         • %D

           The current UTC date and time in ISO 8601 format (YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS).

         • %D{<format>}

           The  current  UTC date and time in the specified <format>, which takes the same format
           as the  <template>  argument  to  strftime``(3).   Supports  the  same  extension  for
           sub-second resolution as ``%d{...}.

         • %E

           The hostname of the node running the application.

         • %m

           The message being logged.

         • %N

           A  serial number for this message within this run of the program, as a decimal number.
           The first message a program logs has serial number 1, the second one has serial number
           2, and so on.

         • %n

           A new-line.

         • %p

           The level at which the message is logged, e.g. DBG.

         • %P

           The program’s process ID (pid), as a decimal number.

         • %r

           The  number  of milliseconds elapsed from the start of the application to the time the
           message was logged.

         • %t

           The subprogram name, that is, an identifying name  for  the  process  or  thread  that
           emitted  the  log  message, such as monitor for the process used for --monitor or main
           for the primary process or thread in a program.

         • %T

           The subprogram name enclosed in parentheses, e.g. (monitor), or the empty  string  for
           the primary process or thread in a program.

         • %%

           A literal %.

         A  few  options  may  appear  between  the % and the format specifier character, in this
         order:

         • -

           Left justify the escape’s expansion within its field width.   Right  justification  is
           the default.

         • 0

           Pad  the  field  to  the  field  width  with 0 characters.  Padding with spaces is the
           default.

         • <width>

           A number specifies the minimum field width.  If the escape expands to fewer characters
           than  <width>  then it is padded to fill the field width.  (A field wider than <width>
           is not truncated to fit.)

         The   default   pattern    for    console    and    file    output    is    %D{%Y-%m-%dT
         %H:%M:%SZ}|%05N|%c|%p|%m; for syslog output, %05N|%c|%p|%m.

         Daemons  written  in  Python  (e.g. ovs-monitor-ipsec) do not allow control over the log
         pattern.

       • vlog/set FACILITY:<facility>

         Sets the RFC5424 facility of the log message. <facility> can be one of kern, user, mail,
         daemon,  auth,  syslog,  lpr, news, uucp, clock, ftp, ntp, audit, alert, clock2, local0,
         local1, local2, local3, local4, local5, local6 or local7.

       • vlog/close

         Causes the daemon to close its log file, if it is open.  (Use vlog/reopen to  reopen  it
         later.)

       • vlog/reopen

         Causes  the  daemon  to close its log file, if it is open, and then reopen it.  (This is
         useful after rotating log files, to cause a new log file to be used.)

         This has no effect if the target application was not invoked with the --log-file option.

OPTIONS

       -h, --help
              Prints a brief help message to the console.

       -V, --version
              Prints version information to the console.

SEE ALSO

       ovs-appctl  can  control  all  Open  vSwitch  daemons,   including   ovs-vswitchd(8)   and
       ovsdb-server(1).

AUTHOR

       The Open vSwitch Development Community

COPYRIGHT

       2016-2023, The Open vSwitch Development Community