Setting the inactivity for future connections in the ovn-sb should be
documented. It is the only option in the southbound database that can
change the behavior of running ovn-sbctl and should be
documented.

Assisted-by: Claude Opus 4.6, Claude Code
Fixes: 276e50c3f778 ("utilities: increase OVSDB inactivity probe interval for 
ovn-*ctl")
Signed-off-by: Jacob Tanenbaum <[email protected]>

---
    v2 - changed from using <code> blocks to <ref> blocks for SB_Global
         and the SB_Global options column
---
 utilities/ovn-sbctl.8.xml | 13 +++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)

diff --git a/utilities/ovn-sbctl.8.xml b/utilities/ovn-sbctl.8.xml
index 6947bb339..a5efb35d7 100644
--- a/utilities/ovn-sbctl.8.xml
+++ b/utilities/ovn-sbctl.8.xml
@@ -106,6 +106,19 @@
       ovn-sbctl -u /tmp/mysock.ctl show
     </pre>
 
+    <p>
+      When running in daemon mode, <code>ovn-sbctl</code> uses the
+      <code>sbctl_probe_interval</code> value from the
+      <ref table="SB_Global" column="options"/> column in the
+      <ref table="SB_Global"/> table to configure the inactivity probe interval
+      (in milliseconds) for the database connection.  The default is 120000 ms
+      (120 seconds). To override, set the value with:
+    </p>
+
+    <pre fixed="yes">
+      ovn-sbctl set SB_Global . options:sbctl_probe_interval=60000
+    </pre>
+
     <h3>Daemon Commands</h3>
 
     <p>
-- 
2.55.0

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