On 05/29/2015 04:47 PM, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 01:06:05PM -0400, Russell Bryant wrote:
>> This patch introduces ovn-ctl, which is similar to ovs-ctl.  I opted
>> for a new script as everything in OVN so far is nicely isolated, so a
>> new script seemed to make the most sense.
>>
>> ovn-ctl supports a few different scenarios.  If you'd like to run
>> ovn-controller on a host already running ovs:
>>
>>     # ovn-ctl start_controller
>>
>> If you'd like to run ovn-northd and ovsdb-server on a management host
>> that won't be running ovs and ovn-controller:
>>
>>     # ovn-ctl start_northd
>>
>> ovn-ctl also supports running everything on the same host.  This would
>> be common in a test environment with a single host or small set of
>> hosts.  In general, that would look like:
>>
>>     # ovn-ctl create_ovn_dbs
>>     # ovs-ctl start --extra-dbs="ovnnb.db ovnsb.db"
>>     # ovn-ctl start_northd --no-ovsdb-server
>>     # ovn-ctl start_controller
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Russell Bryant <rbry...@redhat.com>
> 
> The rest of the OVS utilities use hyphens instead of underscores in
> (sub)command names.  Do you think we could do that for ovn-ctl also?

Sure!  I'll add that to v5.

> I think we should make preheating mandatory ;-)

Agreed, that's a pretty important step.

-- 
Russell Bryant
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