The Linux Manuals (man pages) document is an important part of Linux documents. Linux Manuals are organized as several sections. Each section has a group of commands for a specific area in Linux usage, administration or development.
ovs-ofctl – administer OpenFlow switches Synopsis ovs-ofctl [options] command [switch] [args…] Description The ovs-ofctl program is a command line tool for monitoring and administering OpenFlow switches. It can also show the current state of an OpenFlow switch, including features, configuration, and table entries. It should work with any OpenFlow switch, not just Open vSwitch. OpenFlow…
ovs-dpctl – administer Open vSwitch datapaths Synopsis ovs-dpctl [options] command [switch] [args…] Description The ovs-dpctl program can create, modify, and delete Open vSwitch datapaths. A single machine may host any number of datapaths. This program works only with datapaths that are implemented outside of ovs-vswitchd itself, such as the Linux and Windows kernel-based datapaths. To…
ovs-dpctl-top – Top like behavior for ovs-dpctl dump-flows Synopsis ovs-dpctl-top [-h] [-v] [-f FLOWFILES] [-V] [-s] [–host HOST] [-a | –accumulate] [–accumulate-decay ACCUMULATEDECAY] [-d DELAY] Description This program summarizes ovs-dpctl flow content by aggregating the number of packets, total bytes and occurrence of the following fields: – Datapath in_port – Ethernet type – Source and…
ovs-ctl – OVS startup helper script Synopsis ovs-ctl –system-id=random|uuid [options] start ovs-ctl stop ovs-ctl –system-id=random|uuid [options] restart ovs-ctl status ovs-ctl version ovs-ctl [options] load-kmod ovs-ctl –system-id=random|uuid [options] force-reload-kmod ovs-ctl [–protocol=protocol] [–sport=sport] [–dport=dport] enable-protocol ovs-ctl help | -h | –help ovs-ctl –version Description The ovs-ctl program starts, stops, and checks the status of Open vSwitch daemons….
ovs-bugtool – Open vSwitch bug reporting utility Synopsis ovs-bugtool Description Generates a debug bundle with useful information about Open vSwitch on this system and places it in /var/log/ovs-bugtool. Collection Options These options influence what categories of data ovs-bugtool collects. –entries=list Collect the capabilities specified in the comma-separated list. –all Collect all available capabilities. –ovs In…
ovs-appctl – utility for configuring running Open vSwitch daemons Synopsis ovs-appctl [–target=target | -t target] command [arg…] ovs-appctl –help ovs-appctl –version Description Open vSwitch daemons accept certain commands at runtime to control their behavior and query their settings. Every daemon accepts a common set of commands documented under COMMON COMMANDS below. Some daemons support additional…
ovirt-hosted-engine-setup – Tool for deploying hosted engine VM Synopsis ovirt-hosted-engine-setup [options] Description The ovirt-hosted-engine-setup command deploys a virtual machine that you can install oVirt Open Virtualization Manager on to. The Manager installation on your hosted-engine virtual machine can manage the host it is running on. Options The following are general options you can use with…
overchan – Batch update the INN overview database Synopsis overchan [file …] Description overchan reads overview data from the specified files or from standard input if no files are specified, and writes that data into the INN overview database. (The file "-" means to read data from standard input as well.) Normally, overview data is…
ovdb_stat – Display information from the ovdb database Synopsis ovdb_stat -Hgci [-r artnumrange] newsgroup [newsgroup …] ovdb_stat -Hklmtv [-d database] Description ovdb_stat displays information from the ovdb database: Berkeley DB statistics, newsgroup data, and overview records; and optionally outputs in HTML format. Options -g Newsgroup himark, lowmark, article count, and flag for the given newsgroups (as…
ovdb_server – overview ‘helper’ server Synopsis Use "ovdb_init" to start ovdb_server Description If the "readserver" parameter in ovdb.conf is true, "ovdb_init" will start "ovdb_server". "ovdb_server" opens the overview database, and accesses it on behalf of the nnrpd reader processes. To shut down ovdb_server, send a TERM signal to the process ID in pathrun/ovdb_server.pid . The…
ovdb_monitor – Database maintenance Synopsis Use "ovdb_init" to start ovdb_monitor Description When started (by "ovdb_init"), "ovdb_monitor" forks three processes that perform routine database maintenance tasks. These are: transaction checkpointing, deadlock detection, and transaction log removal. The process ID of the parent is written to pathrun/ovdb_monitor.pid. This PID is used by other INN commands to verify…
ovdb_init – Prepare ovdb database for use Synopsis ovdb_init ["-u"|"-r"] Description This command must be run before any other process can access the overview database. It performs the following steps: 1. Creates the database environment, if necessary 2. If the database is idle (and if the "-u" option is not specified), it performs a normal…
ospfd – an OSPFv2 routing engine for use with Quagga routing software. Synopsis ospfd [ -dhlv ] [ -f config-file ] [ -i pid-file ] [ -P port-number ] [ -A vty-address ] [ -u user ] [ -g group ] Description ospfd is a routing component that works with the Quagga routing engine. Options…
ospf6d – an OSPFv3 routing engine for use with Quagga routing software. Synopsis ospf6d [ -dhv ] [ -f config-file ] [ -i pid-file ] [ -P port-number ] [ -A vty-address ] [ -u user ] [ -g group ] Description ospf6d is a routing component that works with the Quagga routing engine. Options…
oscap – OpenSCAP command line tool Synopsis oscap [general-options] module operation [operation-options-and-arguments] Description oscap is Security Content Automation Protocol (SCAP) toolkit based on OpenSCAP library. It provides various functions for different SCAP specifications (modules). OpenSCAP tool claims to provide capabilities of Authenticated Configuration Scanner and Authenticated Vulnerability Scanner as defined by The National Institute of…
oscap-vm – Tool for offline SCAP evaluation of virtual machines. Description oscap-vm mounts given virtual machine and runs oscap tool on it. The tool requires bash, guestmount, mktemp and umount to perform OVAL and XCCDF evaluation of virtual machines. Usage of the tool mimics usage and options of oscap(8) tool. Usage Evaluation of XCCDF content…
oscap-ssh – Tool for running oscap over SSH and collecting results. Description oscap-ssh runs oscap tool on a remote system through SSH connection. The input files are transfered to the target system and after the scan finishes result files are transfered back. No temporary data remains on the remote machine. The tool requires bash, ssh,…
oscap-docker – Tool for running oscap within docker container or image Description oscap-docker tool can asses vulnerabilities or security compliance of running Docker containers or cold Docker images. OpenSCAP tool (oscap) is used underneath. Definition of vulnerabilities (CVE stream) is downloaded from product vendor. Compliance scan of Docker image Usage: oscap-docker image IMAGE_NAME [OSCAP_ARGUMENTS] Run…
oscap-chroot – Tool for offline SCAP evaluation of filesystems mounted at arbitrary paths. Description oscap-chroot runs oscap tool on it in a filesystem mounted at given path. Usage of the tool mimics usage and options of oscap(8) tool. Usage Evaluation of XCCDF content $ oscap-chroot CHROOT_PATH xccdf eval [options] INPUT_CONTENT supported oscap xccdf eval options…
osad_selinux – Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the osad processes Description Security-Enhanced Linux secures the osad processes via flexible mandatory access control. The osad processes execute with the osad_t SELinux type. You can check if you have these processes running by executing the ps command with the -Z qualifier. For example: ps -eZ | grep…