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NAME

       ovs-appctl - utility for configuring running Open vSwitch daemons

SYNOPSIS

       ovs-appctl [--target=target | -t target] 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
       --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 named /var/run/openvswitch/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
              /var/run/openvswitch/ovs-vswitchd.123.ctl.

              Otherwise, ovs-appctl looks for a pidfile, that is, a file whose contents  are  the
              process    ID    of    a    running    process   as   a   decimal   number,   named
              /var/run/openvswitch/target.pid.  (The  --pidfile  option  makes  an  Open  vSwitch
              daemon  create  a  pidfile.)   ovs-appctl  reads the pidfile, then looks for a Unix
              socket named /var/run/openvswitch/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 configured OVS_RUNDIR
              directory. If target is not an absolute path, ovs-appctl looks  for  a  file  named
              target.ctl in the configured OVS_RUNDIR directory.

              The default target is ovs-vswitchd.

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 accepted as a word and is only useful if  the
                     target  was  started 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.

              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 as a word but 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  0s.   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-xapi-sync,  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/reopen
              Causes the daemon to close and reopen its log file.  (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(8).