ovs-monitor-ipsec: Create cert directory if it doesn't exist.

[sliver-openvswitch.git] / ovsdb / ovsdb-client.1.in

diff --git a/ovsdb/ovsdb-client.1.in b/ovsdb/ovsdb-client.1.in
index 8bd1c12..725211d 100644 (file)
--- a/ovsdb/ovsdb-client.1.in
+++ b/ovsdb/ovsdb-client.1.in
@@ -19,6 +19,8 @@ ovsdb\-client \- command-line interface to \fBovsdb-server\fR(1)
 .br
 \fBovsdb\-client \fR[\fIoptions\fR] \fBget\-schema\fI server database\fR
 .br
+\fBovsdb\-client \fR[\fIoptions\fR] \fBget\-schema\-version\fI server database\fR
+.br
 \fBovsdb\-client \fR[\fIoptions\fR] \fBlist\-tables\fI server database\fR
 .br
 \fBovsdb\-client \fR[\fIoptions\fR] \fBlist\-columns\fI server database \fR[\fItable\fR]
@@ -61,6 +63,19 @@ be used for \fIdatabase\fR in the following commands.
 Connects to \fIserver\fR, retrieves the schema for \fIdatabase\fR, and
 prints it in JSON format.
 .
+.IP "\fBget\-schema\-version\fI server database\fR"
+Connects to \fIserver\fR, retrieves the schema for \fIdatabase\fR, and
+prints its version number on stdout.  A schema version number has the form
+\fIx\fB.\fIy\fB.\fIz\fR.  See \fBovs\-vswitchd.conf.db\fR(5) for
+details.
+.IP
+Schema version numbers and Open vSwitch version numbers are
+independent.
+.IP
+If \fIdatabase\fR was created before schema versioning was introduced,
+then it will not have a version number and this command will print a
+blank line.
+.
 .IP "\fBlist\-tables\fI server database\fR"
 Connects to \fIserver\fR, retrieves the schema for \fIdatabase\fR, and
 prints a table listing the name of each table
@@ -123,6 +138,25 @@ Text-based tables with aligned columns.
 HTML tables.
 .IP "\fBcvs\fR"
 Comma-separated values as defined in RFC 4180.
+.IP "\fBjson\fR"
+JSON format as defined in RFC 4627.  The output is a sequence of JSON
+objects, each of which corresponds to one table.  Each JSON object has
+the following members with the noted values:
+.RS
+.IP "\fBcaption\fR"
+The table's caption.  This member is omitted if the table has no
+caption.
+.IP "\fBheadings\fR"
+An array with one element per table column.  Each array element is a
+string giving the corresponding column's heading.
+.IP "\fBdata\fR"
+An array with one element per table row.  Each element is also an
+array with one element per table column.  The elements of this
+second-level array are the cells that constitute the table.  Cells
+that represent OVSDB data or data types are expressed in the format
+described in the OVSDB specification; other cells are simply expressed
+as text strings.
+.RE
 .RE
 .
 .IP "\fB\-d \fIformat\fR"
@@ -135,6 +169,9 @@ The simple format described in \fBovs\-vsctl\fR(8).
 .IP "\fBjson\fR"
 JSON.
 .RE
+.IP
+The \fBjson\fR output format always outputs cells in JSON format,
+ignoring this option.
 .
 .IP "\fB\-\-no\-heading\fR"
 This option suppresses the heading row that otherwise appears in the