| 67 |   |   The final step of the build involves initializing a config database:  | 
          
          
            | 68 |   |     {{{ | 
          
          
            | 69 |   |     http://openvswitch.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=openvswitch;a=blob_plain;f=INSTALL.Linux;hb=HEAD | 
          
          
            | 70 |   |     }}} | 
          
          
            | 71 |   |  | 
          
          
            | 72 |   | Once Built we need to start the database server and the switch damemon before we can do any thing with it: | 
          
          
            | 73 |   |  1. Start the server with this command: | 
          
          
            | 74 |   |     {{{ | 
          
          
            | 75 |   |     ovsdb-server /usr/local/etc/ovs-vswitchd.conf.db --remote=punix:/usr/local/var/run/openvswitch/db.sock --remote=db:Open_vSwitch,managers --private-key=db:SSL,private_key --certificate=db:SSL,certificate --bootstrap-ca-cert=db:SSL,ca_cert & | 
          
          
            | 76 |   |     }}} | 
          
          
            | 77 |   |  1. initialize the database using ovs-vsctl (only needs to be done once) | 
          
          
            | 78 |   |     {{{ | 
          
          
            | 79 |   |     ovs-vsctl --no-wait init | 
          
          
            | 80 |   |     }}} | 
          
          
            | 81 |   |  1. Once the database server is started, we next can start the switch server: | 
          
          
            | 82 |   |     {{{ | 
          
          
            | 83 |   |     ovs-vswitchd unix:/usr/local/var/run/openvswitch/db.sock & | 
          
          
            | 84 |   |     }}} | 
          
          
            | 85 |   | ---- | 
          
          
            |   | 67 | === Creating a Virtual Open Flow Switch === |