[ovs-discuss] CLI session with OpenvSwitch

[Ben Pfaff]

The CLI programs included in Open vSwitch are just interfaces to
OpenFlow and OVSDB, so there's no advantage to interacting with them
indirectly through a CLI.

Open vSwitch itself does not run telnet or SSH.  The system on which
OVS is hosted may run one or both, but that is up to the local system
administrator.

On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 05:09:25PM +0000, Abdul Rasheed Shaik wrote:
> Thanks Ben,
> 
> Is there telnet/ssh services running in OVS?
> Can you please point out some references for telneting to OVS  (which port and IP..etc)?
> 
> I know, OVSDB and OpenFlow agents are listening for the connections, but now we need
> to exercise with the CLI interface.
> 
> Thanks & Regards,
> Abdul Rasheed.
> ________________________________________
> From: Ben Pfaff [blp at nicira.com]
> Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2015 10:20 PM
> To: Abdul Rasheed Shaik
> Cc: discuss at openvswitch.org
> Subject: Re: [ovs-discuss] CLI session with OpenvSwitch
> 
> On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 04:08:43PM +0000, Abdul Rasheed Shaik wrote:
> > I have a requirement like, I would like to configure VLANs, and Show
> > the VLAN details from the OpenDayLight controller northbound. For
> > this we are planning to write a CLI southbound interface which will
> > communicate with the OVS using CLI protocol (ExpectJ java library).
> >
> > This our current requirement, now the question is like, Is this is
> > possible with openvswitch? (i.e telenet to OVS and issues commands
> > from remote locations).
> 
> You could do that, but it's better to use OpenFlow and OVSDB.
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