[ovs-discuss] OVS controller reconnection on XenServer reboot
Ben Pfaff
blp at nicira.com
Tue May 3 04:13:32 UTC 2011
On Mon, May 02, 2011 at 09:10:02PM -0700, David Erickson wrote:
> On 5/2/2011 7:09 PM, Justin Pettit wrote:
> >On May 2, 2011, at 3:00 PM, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> >
> >>On Mon, May 02, 2011 at 02:51:14PM -0700, David Erickson wrote:
> >>>I've noticed that OVS isn't connecting to the controller on
> >>>boot/reboot, is there an option somewhere I need to set to enable
> >>>this? On further inspection when I run ovs-vsctl list bridge it
> >>>looks like the bridge lost both its controller entry and its
> >>>other_config:datapath-id. Is there a persist or save command I need
> >>>to issue after setting these things?
> >>What happens at boot is this:
> >>
> >> * OVS tears down and destroys all bridges, because XenServer
> >> expects to re-create each one at boot.
> >>
> >> * OVS refreshes the manager (OVSDB connection) from the
> >> XenServer (XAPI) database.
> >>
> >> * XenServer creates each of the bridges. No controller is
> >> set.
> >>
> >> * The manager is supposed to set the controller for each
> >> bridge as it likes, using the OVSDB connection to do so.
> >I answered a very similar question a couple of weeks ago, and described a couple different possible solutions:
> >
> > http://openvswitch.org/pipermail/discuss/2011-April/005080.html
> >
>
> Ah sorry for the duplicate, but I appreciate the reply. I'm
> unfamiliar with the manager, is there a pointer or further
> information on what it does/how it works?
The "manager" is the Open vSwitch configuration protocol. It uses a
custom JSON-RPC based protocol to control, among many things, the
controller for each bridge. The protocol is fully documented in
ovsdb/SPECS. OVS contains C and Python bindings for the protocol, and
ovs-vsctl can be used as shell "bindings" for it.
ovs-controller(8) has a little information on how to make this work, at
least at a klugey level:
BUGS
Configuring a Citrix XenServer to connect to a particular controller
only points the remote OVSDB management connection to that controller.
It does not also configure OpenFlow connections, because the manager is
expected to do that over the management protocol. ovs-controller is
not an Open vSwitch manager and does not know how to do that.
As a stopgap workaround, ovs-vsctl can wait for an OVSDB connection and
set the controller, e.g.:
% ovs-vsctl -t0 --db=pssl: --certificate=cert.pem --ca-cert=none
--private-key=privkey.pem --peer-ca-cert=cacert.pem set-con‐
troller ssl:ip
(I probably should have clicked on the link provided by Justin. Maybe
I've repeating what he already said.)
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