From 6bb9b060d5b0f972461f0c061a865393611fd86a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ben Pfaff Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2017 11:14:55 -0800 Subject: ovsdb-server: Add support for a built-in _Server database. The _Server database is valuable primarily because it provides database clients a way to find out the details of changes to databases, schemas, etc. in a granular, natural way. Until now, the only way that the server could notify clients about these kinds of changes was to close the session; when the client reconnects, it is expected to reassess the server's state. One way to provide this kind of granular information would be to add specific JSON-RPC requests to obtain notifications for different kinds of changes, but since ovsdb-server already provides granular and flexible notification support for databases, using a database for the purpose is convenient and avoids duplicating functionality. Initially this database only reports databases' names and schemas, but when clustering support is added in a later commit it will also report important aspects of clustering and cluster status. Thus, this database also reduces the need to add JSON-RPC calls to retrieve information about new features. Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff --- Documentation/ref/index.rst | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/ref/index.rst b/Documentation/ref/index.rst index d83b809f5..5c8513230 100644 --- a/Documentation/ref/index.rst +++ b/Documentation/ref/index.rst @@ -109,6 +109,10 @@ The remainder are still in roff format can be found below: - `(pdf) `__ - `(html) `__ - `(plain text) `__ + * - ovsdb-server(5) + - `(pdf) `__ + - `(html) `__ + - `(plain text) `__ * - ovsdb-tool(1) - `(pdf) `__ - `(html) `__ -- cgit v1.2.1