Receiving data is not the only reasonable way to verify that a connection
is up. For example, on a TCP connection, receiving an acknowledgment that
the remote side has accepted data that we sent is also a reasonable means.
Therefore, this commit generalizes the naming.
Also, similarly for the Python implementation: Reconnect.received() becomes
Reconnect.activity().
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
Replaced all instances of Nicira Networks(, Inc) to Nicira, Inc.
Feature #10593
Signed-off-by: Raju Subramanian <rsubramanian@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
This patch does minor style cleanups to the code in the python and
tests directory. There's other code floating around that could use
similar treatment, but updating it is not convenient at the moment.
Only the time connected (if connected) or disconnected (if disconnected) is
currently reported for each manager. Change to reporting both in seconds since
the last connect and disconnect events respectively. An empty value indicates
no previous connection or disconnection.
This can help diagnose certain connectivity problems, e.g. flapping.
Requested-by: Peter Balland <peter@nicira.com>
Bug #4833.
Commit a4613b01ab (ovsdb: Change the way connection duration time is reported
in Manager table.), pushed earlier today, requires this commit, so OVSDB has
been unbuildable from then to now.
These initial bindings pass a few hundred of the corresponding tests
for C implementations of various bits of the Open vSwitch library API.
The poorest part of them is actually the Python IDL interface in
ovs.db.idl, which has not received enough attention yet. It appears
to work, but it doesn't yet support writes (transactions) and it is
difficult to use. I hope to improve it as it becomes clear what
semantics Python applications actually want from an IDL.
