[ovs-discuss] How to remotely configure vswitch through json-rpc

Justin Pettit jpettit at nicira.com
Thu Dec 9 08:35:13 UTC 2010


The JSON-RPC interface is for doing switch-level configuration, such as that provided by ovs-vsctl.  If you're looking to do flow-level configuration, which is what ovs-ofctl does, then you need to use the OpenFlow protocol.

--Justin


On Dec 8, 2010, at 9:58 AM, frank wrote:

> Hi,
>     I am looking for a way to control distributed vswitches from a centralized server. Although tools like ovs-ofctl could talk to remote vswitch through TCP, it is not a nice way to do every configuration by calling a script in my code.
>     I knew vswitch uses json-rpc, and also noticed below thread:
>     
>     http://openvswitch.org/pipermail/discuss_openvswitch.org/2009-November/000461.html
>     and a page:
>      http://openflowswitch.org/wk/index.php/Config_Protocol
> 
>     unfortunately, most of links in above wiki are non-valid.
>     Is there any documentation defined json-rpc methods exposed by vswitch? or any example educates people how to talk with vswitch by json-rpc?
> 
>     thank you.
>     
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