ovs-vsctl: Prepare for more flexible database argument parsing.

[openvswitch] / ovsdb / ovsdb-server.1.in

diff --git a/ovsdb/ovsdb-server.1.in b/ovsdb/ovsdb-server.1.in
index d315c8ae00daf55b626b29a19f32aeaf3ff2ca38..b36c61d209a9ca6bc84d991b70222ad1eaac9ba2 100644 (file)
--- a/ovsdb/ovsdb-server.1.in
+++ b/ovsdb/ovsdb-server.1.in
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ ovsdb\-server \- Open vSwitch database server
 [\fB--run=\fIcommand\fR]
 .so lib/daemon-syn.man
 .so lib/vlog-syn.man
+.so lib/unixctl-syn.man
 .so lib/common-syn.man
 .
 .SH DESCRIPTION
@@ -59,9 +60,19 @@ run a single command, e.g.:
 .SS "Logging Options"
 .so lib/vlog.man
 .SS "Public Key Infrastructure Options"
+The options described below for configuring the SSL public key
+infrastructure accept a special syntax for obtaining their
+configuration from the database.  If any of these options is given
+\fBdb:\fItable\fB,\fIcolumn\fR as its argument, then the actual file
+name is read from the specified \fIcolumn\fR in \fItable\fR within the
+\fBovsdb\-server\fR database.  The \fIcolumn\fR must have type string
+or set of strings.  The first nonempty string in the table is taken as
+the file name.  (This means that ordinarily there should be at most
+one row in \fItable\fR.)
 .so lib/ssl.man
 .so lib/ssl-bootstrap.man
 .SS "Other Options"
+.so lib/unixctl.man
 .so lib/common.man
 .SH "RUNTIME MANAGEMENT COMMANDS"
 \fBovs\-appctl\fR(8) can send commands to a running
@@ -74,6 +85,14 @@ Causes \fBovsdb\-server\fR to gracefully terminate.
 .IP "\fBovsdb-server/compact\fR"
 Compacts the database in-place.  The database is also automatically
 compacted occasionally.
+.
+.IP "\fBovsdb\-server/reconnect\fR"
+Makes \fBovsdb\-server\fR drop all of the JSON\-RPC
+connections to database clients and reconnect.
+.IP
+This command might be useful for debugging issues with database
+clients.
+.
 .so lib/vlog-unixctl.man
 .SH "SEE ALSO"
 .