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NAME

       ovn-sbctl - Open Virtual Network southbound db management utility

SYNOPSIS

       ovn-sbctl [options] command [arg...]

DESCRIPTION

       The  ovn-sbctl  program  configures  the OVN_Southbound database by providing a high-level
       interface to its configuration database. See ovn-sb(5) for comprehensive documentation  of
       the database schema.

       ovn-sbctl   connects   to   an  ovsdb-server  process  that  maintains  an  OVN_Southbound
       configuration database. Using this connection, it queries and possibly applies changes  to
       the database, depending on the supplied commands.

       ovn-sbctl  can  perform  any  number  of commands in a single run, implemented as a single
       atomic transaction against the database.

       The ovn-sbctl command line begins with global options (see OPTIONS below for details). The
       global  options are followed by one or more commands. Each command should begin with -- by
       itself as a command-line argument, to separate it from the  following  commands.  (The  --
       before  the  first  command  is optional.) The command itself starts with command-specific
       options, if any, followed by the command name and any arguments.

DAEMON MODE

       When it is invoked in the most ordinary way, ovn-sbctl connects to an  OVSDB  server  that
       hosts  the  southbound database, retrieves a partial copy of the database that is complete
       enough to do its work, sends a  transaction  request  to  the  server,  and  receives  and
       processes the server’s reply. In common interactive use, this is fine, but if the database
       is large, the step in which ovn-sbctl retrieves a partial copy of the database can take  a
       long time, which yields poor performance overall.

       To improve performance in such a case, ovn-sbctl offers a "daemon mode," in which the user
       first starts ovn-sbctl running in the background and afterward uses the daemon to  execute
       operations.  Over  several  ovn-sbctl  command  invocations,  this performs better overall
       because it retrieves a copy of the database only once  at  the  beginning,  not  once  per
       program run.

       Use  the  --detach option to start an ovn-sbctl daemon. With this option, ovn-sbctl prints
       the name of a control socket to stdout. The client should save this  name  in  environment
       variable OVN_SB_DAEMON. Under the Bourne shell this might be done like this:

             export OVN_SB_DAEMON=$(ovn-sbctl --pidfile --detach)

       When  OVN_SB_DAEMON  is  set, ovn-sbctl automatically and transparently uses the daemon to
       execute its commands.

       When the daemon is no longer needed, kill it and unset the environment variable, e.g.:

             kill $(cat $OVN_RUNDIR/ovn-sbctl.pid)
             unset OVN_SB_DAEMON

       When using daemon mode, an alternative to the OVN_SB_DAEMON  environment  variable  is  to
       specify  a  path  for  the Unix socket. When starting the ovn-sbctl daemon, specify the -u
       option with a full path to the location of the socket file. Here is an exmple:

             ovn-sbctl --detach -u /tmp/mysock.ctl

       Then to connect to the running daemon, use the -u option with the full path to the  socket
       created when the daemon was started:

             ovn-sbctl -u /tmp/mysock.ctl show

     Daemon Commands

       Daemon mode is internally implemented using the same mechanism used by ovn-appctl. One may
       also use ovn-appctl directly with the following commands:

              run [options] command [arg...] [-- [options] command [arg...] ...]
                     Instructs the daemon process to run one or more ovn-sbctl commands described
                     above  and  reply  with  the  results of running these commands. Accepts the
                     --no-wait,  --wait,  --timeout,  --dry-run,  --oneline,  and   the   options
                     described  under  Table  Formatting  Options in addition to the the command-
                     specific options.

              exit   Causes ovn-sbctl to gracefully terminate.

OPTIONS

       The options listed below affect the behavior of ovn-sbctl  as  a  whole.  Some  individual
       commands  also  accept their own options, which are given just before the command name. If
       the first command on the command line has options, then those options  must  be  separated
       from the global options by --.

       ovn-sbctl  also  accepts  options  from the OVN_SBCTL_OPTIONS environment variable, in the
       same format as on the command line. Options from the command line override  those  in  the
       environment.

              --db database
                     The  OVSDB database remote to contact. If the OVN_SB_DB environment variable
                     is set, its value  is  used  as  the  default.  Otherwise,  the  default  is
                     unix:/ovnsb_db.sock,  but  this  default is unlikely to be useful outside of
                     single-machine OVN test environments.

              --leader-only
              --no-leader-only
                   By default, or with --leader-only, when the database  server  is  a  clustered
                   database,  ovn-sbctl  will  avoid  servers other than the cluster leader. This
                   ensures that any data that ovn-sbctl reads and  reports  is  up-to-date.  With
                   --no-leader-only,  ovn-sbctl  will  use any server in the cluster, which means
                   that  for  read-only  transactions  it  can  report  and  act  on  stale  data
                   (transactions  that  modify  the  database  are  always  serialized  even with
                   --no-leader-only). Refer to Understanding Cluster Consistency in ovsdb(7)  for
                   more information.

              --shuffle-remotes
              --no-shuffle-remotes
                   By  default,  or  with  --shuffle-remotes,  when  there  are  multiple remotes
                   specified in the OVSDB connection string specified by --db  or  the  OVN_SB_DB
                   environment  variable,  the  order  of the remotes will be shuffled before the
                   client tries to connect. The remotes will be shuffled only once to a new order
                   before  the  first  connection  attempt.  The  following retries, if any, will
                   follow the same new order. The default behavior is to make sure clients  of  a
                   clustered  database  can distribute evenly to all members of the cluster. With
                   --no-shuffle-remotes, ovn-sbctl will use the original order specified  in  the
                   connection string to connect. This allows user to specify the preferred order,
                   which is particularly useful for testing.

              --no-syslog
                   By default, ovn-sbctl logs its arguments and the details of any  changes  that
                   it makes to the system log. This option disables this logging.

                   This option is equivalent to --verbose=sbctl:syslog:warn.

              --oneline
                   Modifies the output format so that the output for each command is printed on a
                   single line. New-line characters  that  would  otherwise  separate  lines  are
                   printed  as  \fB\\n\fR,  and  any  instances  of \fB\\\fR that would otherwise
                   appear in the output are doubled. Prints a blank line for  each  command  that
                   has  no  output. This option does not affect the formatting of output from the
                   list or find commands; see Table Formatting Options below.

              --dry-run
                   Prevents ovn-sbctl from actually modifying the database.

              -t secs
              --timeout=secs
                   By default, or with a secs of 0, ovn-sbctl waits forever for a  response  from
                   the database. This option limits runtime to approximately secs seconds. If the
                   timeout expires, ovn-sbctl will exit with a SIGALRM signal. (A  timeout  would
                   normally  happen only if the database cannot be contacted, or if the system is
                   overloaded.)

   Daemon Options
       --pidfile[=pidfile]
              Causes a file (by default, program.pid) to be created indicating  the  PID  of  the
              running  process. If the pidfile argument is not specified, or if it does not begin
              with /, then it is created in .

              If --pidfile is not specified, no pidfile is created.

       --overwrite-pidfile
              By default, when --pidfile is specified and the specified  pidfile  already  exists
              and  is  locked  by  a  running  process,  the  daemon  refuses  to  start. Specify
              --overwrite-pidfile to cause it to instead overwrite the pidfile.

              When --pidfile is not specified, this option has no effect.

       --detach
              Runs this program as a background process. The process forks, and in the  child  it
              starts  a  new  session,  closes  the standard file descriptors (which has the side
              effect of disabling logging to the console), and changes its current  directory  to
              the   root  (unless  --no-chdir  is  specified).  After  the  child  completes  its
              initialization, the parent exits.

       --monitor
              Creates an additional process to monitor this program. If it dies due to  a  signal
              that  indicates  a  programming  error  (SIGABRT,  SIGALRM, SIGBUS, SIGFPE, SIGILL,
              SIGPIPE, SIGSEGV, SIGXCPU, or SIGXFSZ) then the monitor process starts a  new  copy
              of it. If the daemon dies or exits for another reason, the monitor process exits.

              This option is normally used with --detach, but it also functions without it.

       --no-chdir
              By  default,  when  --detach  is  specified, the daemon changes its current working
              directory to the root directory after it detaches. Otherwise, invoking  the  daemon
              from  a carelessly chosen directory would prevent the administrator from unmounting
              the file system that holds that directory.

              Specifying --no-chdir suppresses this behavior, preventing the daemon from changing
              its  current working directory. This may be useful for collecting core files, since
              it is common behavior to write core dumps into the current  working  directory  and
              the root directory is not a good directory to use.

              This option has no effect when --detach is not specified.

       --no-self-confinement
              By  default  this  daemon  will try to self-confine itself to work with files under
              well-known directories determined at build time. It is better to  stick  with  this
              default  behavior and not to use this flag unless some other Access Control is used
              to confine daemon. Note that in contrast to other  access  control  implementations
              that  are  typically enforced from kernel-space (e.g. DAC or MAC), self-confinement
              is imposed from the user-space daemon itself and hence should not be considered  as
              a full confinement strategy, but instead should be viewed as an additional layer of
              security.

       --user=user:group
              Causes this program to run as  a  different  user  specified  in  user:group,  thus
              dropping most of the root privileges. Short forms user and :group are also allowed,
              with current user or group assumed, respectively. Only daemons started by the  root
              user accepts this argument.

              On  Linux,  daemons  will  be granted CAP_IPC_LOCK and CAP_NET_BIND_SERVICES before
              dropping  root  privileges.  Daemons  that  interact  with  a  datapath,  such   as
              ovs-vswitchd,  will be granted three additional capabilities, namely CAP_NET_ADMIN,
              CAP_NET_BROADCAST and CAP_NET_RAW. The capability change will apply even if the new
              user is root.

              On  Windows,  this  option  is  not  currently  supported.  For  security  reasons,
              specifying this option will cause the daemon process not to start.

   Logging options
       -v[spec]
       --verbose=[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. (If  --detach  is  specified,
                   the  daemon  closes  its  standard file descriptors, so logging to the console
                   will have no effect.)

                   On Windows platform, syslog is accepted as a word and  is  only  useful  along
                   with the --syslog-target option (the word 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.  See ovs-appctl(8) for a
                   definition of each log level.

            Case is not significant within spec.

            Regardless of the log levels set for file, logging to a  file  will  not  take  place
            unless --log-file is also specified (see below).

            For  compatibility  with  older versions of OVS, any is accepted as a word but has no
            effect.

       -v
       --verbose
            Sets the maximum logging verbosity level, equivalent to --verbose=dbg.

       -vPATTERN:destination:pattern
       --verbose=PATTERN:destination:pattern
            Sets the log pattern for  destination  to  pattern.  Refer  to  ovs-appctl(8)  for  a
            description of the valid syntax for pattern.

       -vFACILITY:facility
       --verbose=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. If this option is
            not specified, daemon is used as the default for the local system syslog  and  local0
            is  used  while  sending  a  message  to  the target provided via the --syslog-target
            option.

       --log-file[=file]
            Enables logging to a file. If file is specified, then it is used as  the  exact  name
            for   the  log  file.  The  default  log  file  name  used  if  file  is  omitted  is
            /var/log/ovn/program.log.

       --syslog-target=host:port
            Send syslog messages to UDP port on host, in addition to the system syslog. The  host
            must be a numerical IP address, not a hostname.

       --syslog-method=method
            Specify  method as how syslog messages should be sent to syslog daemon. The following
            forms are supported:

            •      libc, to use the libc syslog() function. Downside of  using  this  options  is
                   that libc adds fixed prefix to every message before it is actually sent to the
                   syslog daemon over /dev/log UNIX domain socket.

            •      unix:file, to use a UNIX domain socket directly. It  is  possible  to  specify
                   arbitrary  message  format  with  this option. However, rsyslogd 8.9 and older
                   versions use hard coded parser function anyway that limits UNIX domain  socket
                   use. If you want to use arbitrary message format with older rsyslogd versions,
                   then use UDP socket to localhost IP address instead.

            •      udp:ip:port, to use a UDP socket. With this  method  it  is  possible  to  use
                   arbitrary  message  format  also  with  older  rsyslogd.  When  sending syslog
                   messages over UDP socket extra precaution needs to be taken into account,  for
                   example,  syslog  daemon needs to be configured to listen on the specified UDP
                   port, accidental iptables rules could be interfering with local syslog traffic
                   and  there  are some security considerations that apply to UDP sockets, but do
                   not apply to UNIX domain sockets.

            •      null, to discard all messages logged to syslog.

            The default is taken from the OVS_SYSLOG_METHOD environment variable; if it is unset,
            the default is libc.

   Table Formatting Options
       These options control the format of output from the list and find commands.

              -f format
              --format=format
                   Sets  the  type  of  table  formatting.  The  following  types  of  format are
                   available:

                   table  2-D text tables with aligned columns.

                   list (default)
                          A list with one column per line and rows separated by a blank line.

                   html   HTML tables.

                   csv    Comma-separated values as defined in RFC 4180.

                   json   JSON format as defined in RFC 4627. The output is a  sequence  of  JSON
                          objects,  each  of which corresponds to one table. Each JSON object has
                          the following members with the noted values:

                          caption
                                 The table’s caption. This member is omitted if the table has  no
                                 caption.

                          headings
                                 An  array  with one element per table column. Each array element
                                 is a string giving the corresponding column’s heading.

                          data   An array with one element per table row. Each element is also an
                                 array  with  one  element per table column. The elements of this
                                 second-level array are the  cells  that  constitute  the  table.
                                 Cells  that  represent OVSDB data or data types are expressed in
                                 the format described in the OVSDB specification; other cells are
                                 simply expressed as text strings.

              -d format
              --data=format
                   Sets  the formatting for cells within output tables unless the table format is
                   set to json, in which case json formatting  is  always  used  when  formatting
                   cells. The following types of format are available:

                   string (default)
                          The   simple  format  described  in  the  Database  Values  section  of
                          ovs-vsctl(8).

                   bare   The simple format with punctuation stripped off: [] and {} are  omitted
                          around  sets,  maps,  and empty columns, items within sets and maps are
                          space-separated, and strings are  never  quoted.  This  format  may  be
                          easier for scripts to parse.

                   json   The RFC 4627 JSON format as described above.

              --no-headings
                   This option suppresses the heading row that otherwise appears in the first row
                   of table output.

              --pretty
                   By default, JSON in output is printed as compactly as  possible.  This  option
                   causes  JSON  in  output  to be printed in a more readable fashion. Members of
                   objects and elements of arrays are printed one per line, with indentation.

                   This option does not affect JSON in tables, which is always printed compactly.

              --bare
                   Equivalent to --format=list --data=bare --no-headings.

   PKI Options
       PKI configuration is required to use SSL for the connection to the database.

              -p privkey.pem
              --private-key=privkey.pem
                   Specifies a PEM file containing the private key used as identity for  outgoing
                   SSL connections.

              -c cert.pem
              --certificate=cert.pem
                   Specifies  a  PEM file containing a certificate that certifies the private key
                   specified on -p or --private-key to be trustworthy. The  certificate  must  be
                   signed by the certificate authority (CA) that the peer in SSL connections will
                   use to verify it.

              -C cacert.pem
              --ca-cert=cacert.pem
                   Specifies a PEM file containing the CA certificate for verifying  certificates
                   presented to this program by SSL peers. (This may be the same certificate that
                   SSL peers use to verify the certificate specified on -c or  --certificate,  or
                   it may be a different one, depending on the PKI design in use.)

              -C none
              --ca-cert=none
                   Disables  verification of certificates presented by SSL peers. This introduces
                   a security risk, because it means that certificates cannot be verified  to  be
                   those of known trusted hosts.

              --bootstrap-ca-cert=cacert.pem
                     When  cacert.pem exists, this option has the same effect as -C or --ca-cert.
                     If it does not exist, then the executable will  attempt  to  obtain  the  CA
                     certificate from the SSL peer on its first SSL connection and save it to the
                     named PEM file. If it is successful, it will immediately drop the connection
                     and reconnect, and from then on all SSL connections must be authenticated by
                     a certificate signed by the CA certificate thus obtained.

                     This option  exposes  the  SSL  connection  to  a  man-in-the-middle  attack
                     obtaining   the   initial   CA   certificate,  but  it  may  be  useful  for
                     bootstrapping.

                     This option is only useful if the SSL peer sends its CA certificate as  part
                     of  the  SSL certificate chain. The SSL protocol does not require the server
                     to send the CA certificate.

                     This option is mutually exclusive with -C and --ca-cert.

   Other Options
       -h
       --help
            Prints a brief help message to the console.

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

COMMANDS

       The following sections describe the commands that ovn-sbctl supports.

   OVN_Southbound Commands
       These commands work with an OVN_Southbound database as a whole.

              init   Initializes the database, if it is empty. If the database has  already  been
                     initialized, this command has no effect.

              show   Prints a brief overview of the database contents.

   Chassis Commands
       These commands manipulate OVN_Southbound chassis.

              [--may-exist] chassis-add chassis encap-type encap-ip
                     Creates a new chassis named chassis. encap-type is a comma-separated list of
                     tunnel types. The chassis will have  one  encap  entry  for  each  specified
                     tunnel type with encap-ip as the destination IP for each.

                     Without --may-exist, attempting to create a chassis that exists is an error.
                     With --may-exist, this command does nothing if chassis already exists.

              [--if-exists] chassis-del chassis
                     Deletes chassis and its encaps and gateway_ports.

                     Without --if-exists, attempting to delete a chassis that does not  exist  is
                     an  error.  With  --if-exists  attempting  to delete a chassis that does not
                     exist has no effect.

   Port Binding Commands
       These commands manipulate OVN_Southbound port bindings.

              [--may-exist] lsp-bind logical-port chassis
                     Binds the logical port named logical-port to chassis.

                     Without --may-exist, attempting to bind a logical port that has already been
                     bound  is  an error. With --may-exist, this command does nothing if logical-
                     port has already been bound to a chassis.

              [--if-exists] lsp-unbind logical-port
                     Removes the binding of logical-port.

                     Without --if-exists, attempting to unbind a logical port that is  not  bound
                     is an error. With --if-exists, attempting to unbind logical port that is not
                     bound has no effect.

   Logical Flow Commands
       [--uuid] [--ovs[=remote]] [--stats] [--vflows] lflow-list [logical-datapath] [lflow...]
              List logical flows. If logical-datapath is specified,  only  list  flows  for  that
              logical datapath. The logical-datapath may be given as a UUID or as a datapath name
              (reporting an error if multiple datapaths have the same name).

              If at least one lflow is given, only matching logical flows, if  any,  are  listed.
              Each  lflow  may  be  specified  as  a  UUID or the first few characters of a UUID,
              optionally prefixed by 0x. (Because ovn-controller sets OpenFlow  flow  cookies  to
              the  first  32 bits of the corresponding logical flow’s UUID, this makes it easy to
              look up the logical flow that generated a particular OpenFlow flow.)

              If --uuid is specified, the output includes the  first  32  bits  of  each  logical
              flow’s  UUID.  This makes it easier to find the OpenFlow flows that correspond to a
              given logical flow.

              If --ovs is included, ovn-sbctl attempts to obtain and display the  OpenFlow  flows
              that  correspond  to  each OVN logical flow. To do so, ovn-sbctl connects to remote
              (by default, unix:/br-int.mgmt) over OpenFlow and retrieves the flows. If remote is
              specified,  it  must be an active OpenFlow connection method described in ovsdb(7).
              Please see the discussion of the similar --ovs  option  in  ovn-trace(8)  for  more
              information about the OpenFlow flow output.

              By  default,  OpenFlow  flow output includes only match and actions. Add --stats to
              include all OpenFlow information, such as packet and byte counters,  duration,  and
              timeouts.

              If  --vflows  is  included,  other  southbound  database  records directly used for
              generating OpenFlow flows are  also  listed.  This  includes:  port-bindings,  mac-
              bindings,  multicast-groups,  chassis.  The  --ovs  and --stats can also be used in
              conjunction with --vflows.

       [--uuid] dump-flows [logical-datapath]
              Alias for lflow-list.

       count-flows [logical-datapath]
              prints numbers of logical flows per table and per datapath.

   Remote Connectivity Commands
       These commands manipulate the connections column in the SB_Global table and  rows  in  the
       Connection  table. When ovsdb-server is configured to use the connections column for OVSDB
       connections, this allows the administrator to use \fBovn\-sbctl\fR to  configure  database
       connections.

              get-connection
                     Prints the configured connection(s).

              del-connection
                     Deletes the configured connection(s).

              [--inactivity-probe=msecs] set-connection target...
                     Sets  the configured manager target or targets. Use --inactivity-probe=msecs
                     to override the default idle connection inactivity  probe  time.  Use  0  to
                     disable inactivity probes.

   SSL Configuration Commands
       When  ovsdb-server  is  configured  to  connect  using  SSL,  the following parameters are
       required:

              private-key
                     Specifies a PEM file containing the private key used for SSL connections.

              certificate
                     Specifies a PEM file containing a certificate,  signed  by  the  certificate
                     authority (CA) used by the connection peers, that certifies the private key,
                     identifying a trustworthy peer.

              ca-cert
                     Specifies a PEM file containing the CA certificate used to verify  that  the
                     connection peers are trustworthy.

       These SSL settings apply to all SSL connections made by the southbound database server.

              get-ssl
                     Prints the SSL configuration.

              del-ssl
                     Deletes the current SSL configuration.

              [--bootstrap]  set-ssl  private-key  certificate  ca-cert  [ssl-protocol-list [ssl-
              cipher-list]]
                     Sets the SSL configuration.

   Database Commands
       These commands query  and  modify  the  contents  of  ovsdb  tables.  They  are  a  slight
       abstraction  of  the  ovsdb interface and as such they operate at a lower level than other
       ovn-sbctl commands.

       Identifying Tables, Records, and Columns

       Each of these commands has a table parameter to identify a table within the database. Many
       of  them  also take a record parameter that identifies a particular record within a table.
       The record parameter may be the UUID for a record, which may be abbreviated to its first 4
       (or  more)  hex  digits,  as  long as that is unique. Many tables offer additional ways to
       identify records. Some commands also take column parameters  that  identify  a  particular
       field within the records in a table.

       For  a  list  of tables and their columns, see ovn-sb(5) or see the table listing from the
       --help option.

       Record names must be specified in full and with correct capitalization, except that  UUIDs
       may be abbreviated to their first 4 (or more) hex digits, as long as that is unique within
       the table. Names of tables and columns are not case-sensitive, and -  and  _  are  treated
       interchangeably.  Unique abbreviations of table and column names are acceptable, e.g. d or
       dhcp is sufficient to identify the DHCP_Options table.

       Database Values

       Each column in the database accepts a fixed type of  data.  The  currently  defined  basic
       types, and their representations, are:

              integer
                     A decimal integer in the range -2**63 to 2**63-1, inclusive.

              real   A floating-point number.

              Boolean
                     True or false, written true or false, respectively.

              string An  arbitrary Unicode string, except that null bytes are not allowed. Quotes
                     are optional  for  most  strings  that  begin  with  an  English  letter  or
                     underscore  and  consist only of letters, underscores, hyphens, and periods.
                     However, true and false and strings that match  the  syntax  of  UUIDs  (see
                     below)  must  be  enclosed  in  double quotes to distinguish them from other
                     basic types. When double quotes are used, the syntax is that of  strings  in
                     JSON,  e.g.  backslashes may be used to escape special characters. The empty
                     string must be represented as a pair of double quotes ("").

              UUID   Either a universally unique identifier  in  the  style  of  RFC  4122,  e.g.
                     f81d4fae-7dec-11d0-a765-00a0c91e6bf6, or an @name defined by a get or create
                     command within the same ovs-vsctl invocation.

       Multiple values in a single column may be separated by spaces  or  a  single  comma.  When
       multiple  values  are  present,  duplicates  are  not allowed, and order is not important.
       Conversely, some database columns can have an empty set of values, represented as [],  and
       square brackets may optionally enclose other non-empty sets or single values as well.

       A  few  database  columns are ``maps’’ of key-value pairs, where the key and the value are
       each some fixed database type. These are specified in the form key=value,  where  key  and
       value  follow  the  syntax  for  the  column’s key type and value type, respectively. When
       multiple pairs are present (separated by spaces  or  a  comma),  duplicate  keys  are  not
       allowed,  and again the order is not important. Duplicate values are allowed. An empty map
       is represented as {}. Curly braces may optionally enclose non-empty maps as well (but  use
       quotes  to  prevent  the shell from expanding other-config={0=x,1=y} into other-config=0=x
       other-config=1=y, which may not have the desired effect).

       Database Command Syntax

              [--if-exists] [--columns=column[,column]...] list table [record]...
                     Lists the data in each specified record. If no records are specified,  lists
                     all the records in table.

                     If  --columns  is  specified,  only the requested columns are listed, in the
                     specified order. Otherwise, all columns are listed, in alphabetical order by
                     column name.

                     Without  --if-exists, it is an error if any specified record does not exist.
                     With --if-exists, the command  ignores  any  record  that  does  not  exist,
                     without producing any output.

              [--columns=column[,column]...] find table [column[:key]=value]...
                     Lists  the data in each record in table whose column equals value or, if key
                     is specified, whose column contains a key  with  the  specified  value.  The
                     following operators may be used where = is written in the syntax summary:

                     = != < > <= >=
                            Selects records in which column[:key] equals, does not equal, is less
                            than, is greater than, is less than or equal to, or is  greater  than
                            or equal to value, respectively.

                            Consider  column[:key]  and value as sets of elements. Identical sets
                            are considered equal. Otherwise, if the sets have  different  numbers
                            of  elements,  then  the  set  with more elements is considered to be
                            larger. Otherwise, consider a element  from  each  set  pairwise,  in
                            increasing  order  within  each  set.  The  first  pair  that differs
                            determines the result. (For a column that contains  key-value  pairs,
                            first  all  the  keys are compared, and values are considered only if
                            the two sets contain identical keys.)

                     {=} {!=}
                            Test for set equality or inequality, respectively.

                     {<=}   Selects records in which column[:key]  is  a  subset  of  value.  For
                            example,  flood-vlans{<=}1,2 selects records in which the flood-vlans
                            column is the empty set or contains 1 or 2 or both.

                     {<}    Selects records in which column[:key] is a proper  subset  of  value.
                            For   example,   flood-vlans{<}1,2   selects  records  in  which  the
                            flood-vlans column is the empty set or contains 1 or 2 but not both.

                     {>=} {>}
                            Same as {<=} and {<}, respectively, except that the  relationship  is
                            reversed.  For  example,  flood-vlans{>=}1,2 selects records in which
                            the flood-vlans column contains both 1 and 2.

                     The following operators are available only in Open vSwitch 2.16 and later:

                     {in}   Selects records in which every element in  column[:key]  is  also  in
                            value. (This is the same as {<=}.)

                     {not-in}
                            Selects  records  in  which  every  element in column[:key] is not in
                            value.

                     For arithmetic operators (= != < > <= >=),  when  key  is  specified  but  a
                     particular  record’s  column  does  not  contain  key,  the record is always
                     omitted from the results. Thus, the condition other-config:mtu!=1500 matches
                     records that have a mtu key whose value is not 1500, but not those that lack
                     an mtu key.

                     For the set operators, when key  is  specified  but  a  particular  record’s
                     column  does  not  contain key, the comparison is done against an empty set.
                     Thus, the condition other-config:mtu{!=}1500 matches records that have a mtu
                     key whose value is not 1500 and those that lack an mtu key.

                     Don’t forget to escape < or > from interpretation by the shell.

                     If  --columns  is  specified,  only the requested columns are listed, in the
                     specified order. Otherwise all columns are listed, in alphabetical order  by
                     column name.

                     The  UUIDs  shown  for rows created in the same ovs-vsctl invocation will be
                     wrong.

              [--if-exists] [--id=@name] get table record [column[:key]]...
                     Prints the value of each specified column in the given record in table.  For
                     map  columns,  a  key  may  optionally be specified, in which case the value
                     associated with key in the column is printed, instead of the entire map.

                     Without --if-exists, it is an error if record  does  not  exist  or  key  is
                     specified,  if  key  does  not  exist in record. With --if-exists, a missing
                     record yields no output and a missing key prints a blank line.

                     If @name is specified, then the UUID for record may be referred to  by  that
                     name  later  in  the  same  ovs-vsctl invocation in contexts where a UUID is
                     expected.

                     Both --id and the column arguments are optional, but usually at least one or
                     the  other  should be specified. If both are omitted, then get has no effect
                     except to verify that record exists in table.

                     --id and --if-exists cannot be used together.

              [--if-exists] set table record column[:key]=value...
                     Sets the value of each specified column in the  given  record  in  table  to
                     value. For map columns, a key may optionally be specified, in which case the
                     value associated with key in that column  is  changed  (or  added,  if  none
                     exists), instead of the entire map.

                     Without  --if-exists,  it  is  an  error  if  record  does  not  exist. With
                     --if-exists, this command does nothing if record does not exist.

              [--if-exists] add table record column [key=]value...
                     Adds the specified value or key-value pair to column in record in table.  If
                     column  is  a  map, then key is required, otherwise it is prohibited. If key
                     already exists in a map column, then the current value is not replaced  (use
                     the set command to replace an existing value).

                     Without  --if-exists,  it  is  an  error  if  record  does  not  exist. With
                     --if-exists, this command does nothing if record does not exist.

              [--if-exists] remove table record column value...

                     [--if-exists] remove table record column key...

                     [--if-exists] remove table record column key=value...  Removes the specified
                     values  or  key-value  pairs  from column in record in table. The first form
                     applies to columns that are not maps: each specified value is  removed  from
                     the  column.  The second and third forms apply to map columns: if only a key
                     is specified, then any  key-value  pair  with  the  given  key  is  removed,
                     regardless  of its value; if a value is given then a pair is removed only if
                     both key and value match.

                     It is not an error if the column does not contain the specified key or value
                     or pair.

                     Without  --if-exists,  it  is  an  error  if  record  does  not  exist. With
                     --if-exists, this command does nothing if record does not exist.

              [--if-exists] clear table record column...
                     Sets each column in record in table to  the  empty  set  or  empty  map,  as
                     appropriate.  This  command  applies  only to columns that are allowed to be
                     empty.

                     Without --if-exists,  it  is  an  error  if  record  does  not  exist.  With
                     --if-exists, this command does nothing if record does not exist.

              [--id=(@name|uuid)] create table column[:key]=value...
                     Creates  a  new  record in table and sets the initial values of each column.
                     Columns not explicitly set will receive their default  values.  Outputs  the
                     UUID of the new row.

                     If  @name  is specified, then the UUID for the new row may be referred to by
                     that name elsewhere in the same \*(PN invocation in contexts where a UUID is
                     expected. Such references may precede or follow the create command.

                     If a valid uuid is specified, then it is used as the UUID of the new row.

                     Caution (ovs-vsctl as example)
                            Records  in  the Open vSwitch database are significant only when they
                            can be reached directly or indirectly from  the  Open_vSwitch  table.
                            Except  for  records in the QoS or Queue tables, records that are not
                            reachable from the Open_vSwitch table are automatically deleted  from
                            the  database. This deletion happens immediately, without waiting for
                            additional ovs-vsctl commands or other  database  activity.  Thus,  a
                            create  command  must generally be accompanied by additional commands
                            within the same ovs-vsctl invocation to add a chain of references  to
                            the  newly created record from the top-level Open_vSwitch record. The
                            EXAMPLES section gives some examples that show how to do this.

              [--if-exists] destroy table record...
                     Deletes each specified record from table. Unless --if-exists  is  specified,
                     each records must exist.

              --all destroy table
                     Deletes all records from the table.

                     Caution (ovs-vsctl as example)
                            The  destroy  command  is only useful for records in the QoS or Queue
                            tables. Records in other tables are automatically  deleted  from  the
                            database  when  they  become unreachable from the Open_vSwitch table.
                            This means that deleting the last reference to a record is sufficient
                            for  deleting the record itself. For records in these tables, destroy
                            is  silently  ignored.  See  the  EXAMPLES  section  below  for  more
                            information.

              wait-until table record [column[:key]=value]...
                     Waits  until  table contains a record named record whose column equals value
                     or, if key is specified, whose column contains  a  key  with  the  specified
                     value.  This command supports the same operators and semantics described for
                     the find command above.

                     If no column[:key]=value arguments are given, this command waits only  until
                     record  exists.  If  more than one such argument is given, the command waits
                     until all of them are satisfied.

                     Caution (ovs-vsctl as example)
                            Usually wait-until should be placed at the  beginning  of  a  set  of
                            ovs-vsctl  commands. For example, wait-until bridge br0 -- get bridge
                            br0 datapath_id waits until a  bridge  named  br0  is  created,  then
                            prints  its datapath_id column, whereas get bridge br0 datapath_id --
                            wait-until bridge br0 will abort if no bridge named br0  exists  when
                            ovs-vsctl initially connects to the database.

                     Consider   specifying   --timeout=0  along  with  --wait-until,  to  prevent
                     ovs-vsctl from terminating after waiting only at most 5 seconds.

              comment [arg]...
                     This command has no effect on behavior, but any database log record  created
                     by the command will include the command and its arguments.

ENVIRONMENT

       OVN_SB_DAEMON
              If  set,  this  should name the Unix domain socket for an ovn-sbctl server process.
              See Daemon Mode, above, for more information.

       OVN_SBCTL_OPTIONS
              If set, a set of options for ovn-sbctl to apply automatically, in the same form  as
              on the command line.

       OVN_SB_DB
              If set, the default database to contact when the --db option is not used.

EXIT STATUS

       0      Successful program execution.

       1      Usage, syntax, or network error.

SEE ALSO

       ovn-sb(5), ovn-appctl(8).