[ovs-dev] [patch v2] vswitchd: Enhance manager_options documentation.

Darrell Ball dlu998 at gmail.com
Tue May 8 22:43:07 UTC 2018


Signed-off-by: Darrell Ball <dlu998 at gmail.com>
---

v1->v2: Fix some broken wording.

 vswitchd/vswitch.xml | 9 ++++++++-
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/vswitchd/vswitch.xml b/vswitchd/vswitch.xml
index 9c2a826..74544e4 100644
--- a/vswitchd/vswitch.xml
+++ b/vswitchd/vswitch.xml
@@ -689,7 +689,14 @@
       <column name="manager_options">
         Database clients to which the Open vSwitch database server should
         connect or to which it should listen, along with options for how these
-        connection should be configured.  See the <ref table="Manager"/> table
+        connections should be configured.  In order to set a remote database
+        manager(s) via the <code>ovs-vsctl set-manager</code> command
+        (See ovs-vsctl(8) for more information), this connection method must
+        be enabled beforehand.  This can be done via the
+        <code>ovsdb-server</code> command option
+        <option>--remote=db:Open_vSwitch,Open_vSwitch,manager_options</option>
+        or by enabling in some other way as described in the startup scripts
+        provided with Open vSwitch.  See the <ref table="Manager"/> table
         for more information.
       </column>
     </group>
-- 
1.9.1



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