Ethan Jackson ethan@nicira.com
Gaetano Catalli gaetano.catalli@gmail.com
Glen Gibb grg@stanford.edu
+Gurucharan Shetty gshetty@nicira.com
Hao Zheng hzheng@nicira.com
Ian Campbell Ian.Campbell@citrix.com
Jean Tourrilhes jt@hpl.hp.com
another string is specified \fBovs\-ctl\fR uses it literally.
.
.PP
-On systems that have the \fBlsb_release\fR program, \fBovs\-ctl\fR
-chooses reasonable defaults for the following options. Other systems
-should specify values:
+The following options should be specified if the defaults are not
+suitable:
.
.IP "\fB\-\-system\-type=\fItype\fR"
.IQ "\fB\-\-system\-version=\fIversion\fR"
\fBOpen_vSwitch\fR table. Remote managers may use these values to
determine the kind of system to which they are connected (primarily
for display to human administrators).
+.IP
+When not specified, \fBovs\-ctl\fR uses values from the optional
+\fBsystem\-type.conf\fR and \fBsystem\-version.conf\fR files(see section
+\fBFILES\fR) or it uses the \fBlsb_release\fR program, if present, to
+provide reasonable defaults.
.
.PP
The following options are also likely to be useful:
The persistent system UUID created and read by
\fB\-\-system\-id=random\fR.
.
+.IP "\fIsysconfdir\fB/openvswitch/system\-type.conf\fR"
+.IQ "\fIsysconfdir\fB/openvswitch/system\-version.conf\fR"
+The \fBsystem\-type\fR and \fBsystem\-version\fR values stored in the database's
+\fBOpen_vSwitch\fR table when not specified as a command-line option.
+.
.SH "EXAMPLE"
.
.PP
DPORT=
SPORT=
- if (lsb_release --id) >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+ type_file=$etcdir/system-type.conf
+ version_file=$etcdir/system-version.conf
+
+ if test -e "$type_file" ; then
+ SYSTEM_TYPE=`cat $type_file`
+ SYSTEM_VERSION=`cat $version_file`
+ elif (lsb_release --id) >/dev/null 2>&1; then
SYSTEM_TYPE=`lsb_release --id -s`
system_release=`lsb_release --release -s`
system_codename=`lsb_release --codename -s`