A daemon that manages and controls any number of Open vSwitch switches
on the local machine.
.PP
-The mandatory \fIdatabase\fR argument specifies the
-\fBovsdb\-server\fR from which \fBovs\-vswitchd\fR's configuration
-should be retrieved. It takes one of the following forms:
+The mandatory \fIdatabase\fR argument normally takes the form
+\fBunix:\fIfile\fR, where \fIfile\fR is the name of a Unix domain
+socket on which \fBovsdb-server\fR is listening. However, all of the
+following forms are accepted:
.so ovsdb/remote-active.man
.so ovsdb/remote-passive.man
.PP