You are doing it correctly. Unfortunately, controller configuration is
attached to the Bridge, but XenServer destroys bridges on boot. Managers, on
the other hand, are persistent across reboots, since they're associated with
the root "Open_vSwitch" Table. The ovs-controller man page describes how to
approach a somewhat similar problem:
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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-controller ssl:ip
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Other than just adding the controller configuration to an appropriate rc
script, the most straight-forward approach that springs to mind is to use the
"ovs-vsctl set-manager" command on XenServer and have it point to your
controller machine. Then, on your controller machine, run that ovs-vsctl
command from the man page (probably in a loop to handle successive reboots) to
configure the bridge to connect back over an OpenFlow channel.
--Justin
On Apr 21, 2011, at 1:29 AM, <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am using Open vSwitch 1.0.2 originally installed in XenServer 5.6 FP1.
> But I do not know how to set OpenFlow controller's address in Open_vSwitch
> DATABASE(OVSDB).
> I tried to use 'ovs-vsctl set-controller' command, however, controller's
> address is deleted when XenServer is rebooted.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Kensuke Watanabe
>
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