[ovs-discuss] issues in configuring sfflow

[Ben Pfaff]

You didn't create the database.

Are you carefully following the installation instructions?  If you can't
follow them accurately, then perhaps you should use a prepackaged
installation.

On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 10:34:58PM -0500, gandhi mathi wrote:
> Hi Ben Pfaff,
>    Thank you for your reply.
> I tried to start ovsdb-server by shell script as follows:
> 
> #!/usr/bin/sh
> 
> ovsdb-server /usr/local/etc/openvswitch/conf.db
> --remote=punix:/usr/local/var/run/openvswitch/db.soc
> --remote=db:Open_vSwitch,manager_options --private-key=db:SSL,private_key
> --certificate=db:SSL,certificate --bootstrap-ca-cert=db:SSL,ca_cert
> --pidfile --detach --log-file
> 
> 
> But it is giving the error message as :
> 
> Oct 31 12:26:28|00001|vlog|INFO|opened log file
> /usr/local/var/log/openvswitch/o
> 
> vsdb-server.log
> 
> ovsdb-server: I/O error: open: /usr/local/etc/openvswitch/conf.db failed
> (No suc
>                                                 h file or directory)
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks
> Gandhi
> 
> 
> 
> On 31 October 2012 21:57, Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 08:40:09PM -0500, gandhi mathi wrote:
> > > In my project I am  using mininet to create networks and while I am
> > trying
> > >  to configure the sflow in the ovs,by using a shell script, I am getting
> > > the error as:
> > > Oct 31
> > >
> > 11:00:34|00005|reconnect|WARN|unix:/usr/local/var/run/openvswitch/db.sock:
> > > connection attempt failed (No such file or directory)
> >
> > Either ovsdb-server isn't running or it's listening on a different
> > socket.  You should be able to figure out which.
> >