ovn-appctl - utility for configuring running OVN daemons
ovn-appctl [-target=target | -t target] [-T secs |
-timeout=secs] command [arg...]
ovn-appctl -help
ovn-appctl -version
OVN daemons accept certain commands at runtime to control their
behavior and query their settings. Every daemon accepts a common set of
commands documented under COMMON COMMANDS below. Some daemons support
additional commands documented in their own manpages.
The ovn-appctl program provides a simple way to invoke
these commands. The command to be sent is specified on
ovn-appctl’s command line as non-option arguments.
ovn-appctl sends the command and prints the daemon’s response
on standard output.
ovn-ctl is exactly similar to Open vSwitch
ovs-appctl utility.
Every OVN daemon supports a common set of commands, which are
documented in this section.
These commands display daemon-specific commands and the running
version. Note that these commands are different from the -help and -version
options that return information about the ovn-appctl utility
itself.
- list-commands
- Lists the commands supported by the target.
- version
- Displays the version and compilation date of the target.
OVN has several log levels. The highest-severity log level is:
- off
- No message is ever logged at this level, so setting a logging
destination’s log level to off disables logging to that
destination.
The following log levels, in order of descending severity, are
available:
- emer
- A major failure forced a process to abort.
- err
- A high-level operation or a subsystem failed. Attention is warranted.
- warn
- A low-level operation failed, but higher-level subsystems may be able to
recover.
- info
- Information that may be useful in retrospect when investigating a
problem.
- dbg
- Information useful only to someone with intricate knowledge of the system,
or that would commonly cause too-voluminous log output. Log messages at
this level are not logged by default.
Every OVN daemon supports the following commands for examining and
adjusting log levels.
- vlog/list
- Lists the known logging modules and their current levels.
- vlog/list-pattern
- Lists logging pattern used for each destination.
- vlog/set
[spec]
- Sets logging levels. Without any spec, sets the log level for every module
and destination to dbg. Otherwise, spec is a list of words separated by
spaces or commas or colons, up to one from each category below:
- A valid module name, as displayed by the vlog/list command on
ovn-appctl(8), limits the log level change to the specified module.
- syslog, console, or file, to limit the log level
change to only to the system log, to the console, or to a file,
respectively.
- On Windows platform, syslog is accepted as a word and is only
useful if the target was started with the --syslog-target option
(the word has no effect otherwise).
- •
- off, emer, err, warn, info, or
dbg, to control the log level. Messages of the given severity or
higher will be logged, and messages of lower severity will be filtered
out. off filters out all messages.
- Case is not significant within spec.
- vlog/set
PATTERN:destination: pattern
- Sets the log pattern for destination to pattern. Each time a
message is logged to destination, pattern determines the message’s
formatting. Most characters in pattern are copied literally to the log,
but special escapes beginning with % are expanded as follows:
- %A : The name of the application logging the message, e.g.
ovn-controller.
- %B : The RFC5424 syslog PRI of the message.
- %c : The name of the module (as shown by ovn-appctl -list) logging
the message.
- %d : The current date and time in ISO 8601 format (YYYY-MM-DD
HH:MM:SS).
- %d{format} : The current date and time in the
specified format, which takes the same format as the template argument to
strftime(3). As an extension, any # characters in format will be replaced
by fractional seconds, e.g. use %H:%M:%S.### for the time to the
nearest millisecond. Sub-second times are only approximate and currently
decimal places after the third will always be reported as zero.
- %D : The current UTC date and time in ISO 8601 format
(YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS).
- %D{format} : The current UTC date and time in the
specified format, which takes the same format as the template argument to
strftime(3). Supports the same extension for sub-second resolution as
%d{...}.
- %E : The hostname of the node running the application.
- %m : The message being logged.
- %N : A serial number for this message within this run of the
program, as a decimal number. The first message a program logs has serial
number 1, the second one has serial number 2, and so on.
- %n : A new-line.
- %p : The level at which the message is logged, e.g.
DBG.
- %P : The program’s process ID (pid), as a decimal
number.
- %r : The number of milliseconds elapsed from the start of the
application to the time the message was logged.
- %t : The subprogram name, that is, an identifying name for the
process or thread that emitted the log message, such as monitor for the
process used for -monitor or main for the primary process or thread in a
program.
- %T : The subprogram name enclosed in parentheses, e.g. (monitor),
or the empty string for the primary process or thread in a program.
- %% : A literal %.
- A few options may appear between the % and the format specifier character,
in this order:
- - : Left justify the escape’s expansion within its field
width. Right justification is the default.
- - : Pad the field to the field width with 0s. Padding with spaces
is the default.
- width A number specifies the minimum field width. If the escape
expands to fewer characters than width then it is padded to fill the field
width. (A field wider than width is not truncated to fit.)
- The default pattern for console and file output is %D{%Y-%m-%dT
%H:%M:%SZ}|%05N|%c|%p|%m; for syslog output,
%05N|%c|%p|%m.
- vlog/set
FACILITY:facility
- Sets the RFC5424 facility of the log message. facility can be one of
kern, user, mail, daemon, auth,
syslog, lpr, news, uucp, clock,
ftp, ntp, audit, alert, clock2,
local0, local1, local2, local3, local4,
local5, local6 or local7.
- vlog/close
- Causes the daemon to close its log file, if it is open. (Use
vlog/reopen to reopen it later.)
- vlog/reopen
- Causes the daemon to close its log file, if it is open, and then reopen
it. (This is useful after rotating log files, to cause a new log file to
be used.)
- This has no effect if the target application was not invoked with the
--log-file option.
- -h
-
- --help
- Prints a brief help message to the console.
- -V
-
- --version
- Prints version information to the console.