network agent¶

A network agent is an agent that handles various tasks used to implement virtual networks. These agents include neutron-dhcp-agent, neutron-l3-agent, neutron-metering-agent, and neutron-lbaas-agent, among others. The agent is available when the alive status of the agent is “True”.

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network agent add network¶

Add network to an agent

openstack network agent add network
    [--dhcp]
    <agent-id>
    <network>

--dhcp¶: Add a network to DHCP agent

<agent-id>: Agent to which a network is added (ID only)

<network>: Network to be added to an agent (name or ID)

network agent add router¶

Add router to an agent

openstack network agent add router
    [--l3]
    <agent-id>
    <router>

--l3¶: Add router to an L3 agent

<agent-id>: Agent to which a router is added (ID only)

<router>: Router to be added to an agent (name or ID)

network agent delete¶

Delete network agent(s)

openstack network agent delete
    <network-agent> [<network-agent> ...]

<network-agent>: Network agent(s) to delete (ID only)

network agent list¶

List network agents

openstack network agent list
    [--agent-type <agent-type>]
    [--host <host>]
    [--network <network> | --router <router>]
    [--long]

--agent-type <agent-type>¶: List only agents with the specified agent type. The supported agent types are: dhcp, open-vswitch, linux-bridge, ofa, l3, loadbalancer, metering, metadata, macvtap, nic.

--host <host>¶: List only agents running on the specified host

--network <network>¶: List agents hosting a network (name or ID)

--router <router>¶: List agents hosting this router (name or ID)

--long¶: List additional fields in output

network agent remove network¶

Remove network from an agent

openstack network agent remove network
    [--dhcp]
    <agent-id>
    <network>

--dhcp¶: Remove network from DHCP agent

<agent-id>: Agent to which a network is removed (ID only)

<network>: Network to be removed from an agent (name or ID)

network agent remove router¶

Remove router from an agent

openstack agent remove router
    [--l3]
    <agent-id>
    <router>

--l3¶: Remove router from an L3 agent

<agent-id>: Agent from which router will be removed (ID only)

<router>: Router to be removed from an agent (name or ID)

network agent set¶

Set network agent properties

openstack network agent set
    [--description <description>]
    [--enable | --disable]
    <network-agent>

--description <description>¶: Set network agent description

--enable¶: Enable network agent

--disable¶: Disable network agent

<network-agent>: Network agent to modify (ID only)

network agent show¶

Display network agent details

openstack network agent show
    <network-agent>

<network-agent>: Network agent to display (ID only)

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