This article provides information about ovs and command that can be used to troubleshoot ovs related issues
 

Instructions

1. Getting general information    

# ovs-vsctl list open_vswitch

#ovs-vswitchd -V

1. Check the status of openvswitch

# service openvswitch status

1. List all bridges

# ovs-vsctl list bridge
 

1. List All ports

# ovs-vsctl list port
 

1. Show mac learning table for a bridge

# ovs-appctl fdb/show xenbr0

# ovs-dpctl show -s

7. Dump flows

# ovs-dpctl dump-flows xenbr0

# ovs-appctl bond/list

1. To show bond properties for a bond

 # ovs-appctl bond/show bond0
 

Log locations for ovs

XenServer 6.0, 6.1 Log Files

In XenServer 6.0 and XenServer 6.1 all openvswitch logs have been sent through syslogd and are thus present in /var/log/messages*

XenServer 6.2+ Log Files

Starting in XenServer 6.2 and beyond all openvswitch logs have been sent through syslogd and are thus present in /var/log/daemon*