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ovs-toolbox.py is a graphical user interface for local or remote Open vSwitch administration.

1) ovs-toolbox communication profiles

1.1) Purpose of communication profiles

1.2) ssh host access profile example

1.3) sudo access profile example

1.4) paramiko with login/password access profile example

1.5) AWS EC2 Ubuntu access profile example

1.6) AWS EC2 RedHat access profile example

2) Open vSwitch basic admin

2.1.1) Creating a new bridge

2.1.2) Selecting an existing bridge

2.2) Adding a port

2.3) Changing port vlan

2.4) Changing port trunk settings

2.5) Changing interface type

2.6) Deleting a port

2.7) Displaying interface status and stats

2.7) Disabling/Enabling a port

3) Graphing Flows

3.1) With NetFlow and NTOP

3.2) With sFlow and NTOP

3.3) With IPFIX

4) Plotnetcfg

4.1) Using Plotnetcfg to display network graph

5) Mirroring

5.1) Creation of a dummy interface

5.2) Port mirroring

5.3) Vlan mirroring

6) Ingress policing

6.1) Ingress policing configuration

6.2) Removing Ingress policing configuration

7) QOS

7.0) Reference example

7.1) Queues configuration

7.2) QOS configuration

7.3) Mapping QOS with Queues

7.4) Associating network traffic with QOS mapid

7.5) Applying QOS to egress port

7.6) Testing QOS - iperf

7.7) Unlinking a queue from QOS

7.8) Removing QOS from an egress port

7.9) Deleting QOS from QOS db

7.10) Deleting Queue from Queue db

8) Bond

8.0) Example

8.1) veth pairs creation

8.2) Bond creation

8.3) Verification

8.4) Bond testing

8.5) Bond status

8.6) Deleting bond configuration

9) Multicast

9.1) Example

9.2) Test without multicast snooping

9.3) configuration

9.2) Test without multicast snooping

( Documentation in progress !!!!!!)

10) OpenFlow

( Documentation in progress !!!!!!)

11) Docker

( Documentation in progress !!!!!!)

12) KVM

( Documentation in progress !!!!!!)