[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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