[ovs-discuss] ovs-controller process in linux.

[Ben Pfaff]

ovs-controller is an OpenFlow controller.  It is suitable only for
testing because it has less functionality than is actually built into
Open vSwitch.  It interacts with ovs-vswitchd over OpenFlow, if you set
up ovs-vswitchd to use it.

On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 10:23:51AM -0700, Mehul Vora wrote:
> Ben,
> 
> ?Thanks for your reply. But can you tell what is the use of ovs-controller ? And how does it interact with vswitchd/ovs-db ?
> ?
> Thanks,
> Mehul.
> 
> 
> 
> On Friday, October 11, 2013 10:34 PM, Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com> wrote:
>  
> On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 07:35:12AM -0700, Mehul Vora wrote:
> 
> > ? I am trying to understand different modules of openvswitch. I saw that in linux 3 different processes namely, i)open-vswitch, 2)ovsdb-server and 3)ovs-controller are running in the?
> > back ground. I understood first two processes, but what is the significance of "ovs-controller" process ? And how does it interact with other two processes.?
> 
> ovs-controller is not necessary and you should probably not run it.