On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 4:31 AM, RishiRaj Maulick <rishi.raj2...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi , > > > > I have been using OVS recently and I noticed the following - > > > > 1) 1) I did not insert the openvswitch kernel module > > 2) 2) Using “ovs-vsctl add-br br0” command , I tried to add a bridge – > which failed for obvious reasons. There is an error log that is displayed > on ovs-vsctl screen as well.
Technically, this is an error reported only by ovs-vsctl. It is not an error from ovsdb stand point. If you insert kmod and restart ovs-vswitchd, the bridge will be created. > > 3) 3) However there are entries that are left in the ovs database – > “ovsdb-client dump”. I can see addition to the bridge , port , interface > and openvswitch tables – all entries pertaining to the bridge “br0”. > That's expected. > Ideally an application has to delete the bridge “br0” from the DB after > hitting an error like this. > I am not sure ovs-vsctl should do this. You can certainly implement a script on top of ovs-vsctl, or an application that do this. > > > I see that the ovs-vsctl can detect these errors through checks for the > field in the interface table entry "ofport”. > > Yes > > The question is how can a remote management interface for any proprietary > schemas get to know about application processing failures . > > Does your schema has 'ofport', if yes, then one option could be to monitor 'ofport'. > > Thanks and regards, > Rishi Raj Maulick > _______________________________________________ > dev mailing list > dev@openvswitch.org > http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
