Chapter 10. neutron
The following chapter contains information about the configuration options in the neutron
service.
10.1. dhcp_agent.ini
This section contains options for the /etc/neutron/dhcp_agent.ini
file.
10.1.1. DEFAULT
The following table outlines the options available under the [DEFAULT]
group in the /etc/neutron/dhcp_agent.ini
file.
Configuration option = Default value | Type | Description |
---|---|---|
| boolean value | If set to true, the logging level will be set to DEBUG instead of the default INFO level. |
| list value | List of package logging levels in logger=LEVEL pairs. This option is ignored if log_config_append is set. |
| boolean value | Use broadcast in DHCP replies. |
| string value | Location to store DHCP server config files. |
| string value | The driver used to manage the DHCP server. |
| integer value | DHCP rebinding time T2 (in seconds). If set to 0, it will default to 7/8 of the lease time. |
| integer value | DHCP renewal time T1 (in seconds). If set to 0, it will default to half of the lease time. |
| string value | Base log dir for dnsmasq logging. The log contains DHCP and DNS log information and is useful for debugging issues with either DHCP or DNS. If this section is null, disable dnsmasq log. |
`dnsmasq_config_file = ` | string value | Override the default dnsmasq settings with this file. |
| list value | Comma-separated list of the DNS servers which will be used as forwarders. |
| integer value | Limit number of leases to prevent a denial-of-service. |
| boolean value | Enables the dnsmasq service to provide name resolution for instances via DNS resolvers on the host running the DHCP agent. Effectively removes the --no-resolv option from the dnsmasq process arguments. Adding custom DNS resolvers to the dnsmasq_dns_servers option disables this feature. |
| boolean value | The DHCP server can assist with providing metadata support on isolated networks. Setting this value to True will cause the DHCP server to append specific host routes to the DHCP request. The metadata service will only be activated when the subnet does not contain any router port. The guest instance must be configured to request host routes via DHCP (Option 121). This option doesn’t have any effect when force_metadata is set to True. |
| boolean value | Allows for serving metadata requests coming from a dedicated metadata access network whose CIDR is 169.254.169.254/16 (or larger prefix), and is connected to a Neutron router from which the VMs send metadata:1 request. In this case DHCP Option 121 will not be injected in VMs, as they will be able to reach 169.254.169.254 through a router. This option requires enable_isolated_metadata = True. |
| boolean value | Enables or disables fatal status of deprecations. |
| boolean value | In some cases the Neutron router is not present to provide the metadata IP but the DHCP server can be used to provide this info. Setting this value will force the DHCP server to append specific host routes to the DHCP request. If this option is set, then the metadata service will be activated for all the networks. |
`instance_format = [instance: %(uuid)s] ` | string value | The format for an instance that is passed with the log message. |
`instance_uuid_format = [instance: %(uuid)s] ` | string value | The format for an instance UUID that is passed with the log message. |
| string value | The driver used to manage the virtual interface. |
| string value | The name of a logging configuration file. This file is appended to any existing logging configuration files. For details about logging configuration files, see the Python logging module documentation. Note that when logging configuration files are used then all logging configuration is set in the configuration file and other logging configuration options are ignored (for example, logging_context_format_string). |
| string value | Defines the format string for %%(asctime)s in log records. Default: %(default)s . This option is ignored if log_config_append is set. |
| string value | (Optional) The base directory used for relative log_file paths. This option is ignored if log_config_append is set. |
| string value | (Optional) Name of log file to send logging output to. If no default is set, logging will go to stderr as defined by use_stderr. This option is ignored if log_config_append is set. |
| string value | Format string to use for log messages with context. |
| string value | Additional data to append to log message when logging level for the message is DEBUG. |
| string value | Format string to use for log messages when context is undefined. |
| string value | Prefix each line of exception output with this format. |
| string value | Defines the format string for %(user_identity)s that is used in logging_context_format_string. |
| integer value | Number of threads to use during sync process. Should not exceed connection pool size configured on server. |
| string value | Name of Open vSwitch bridge to use |
| boolean value | Uses veth for an OVS interface or not. Support kernels with limited namespace support (e.g. RHEL 6.5) and rate limiting on router’s gateway port so long as ovs_use_veth is set to True. |
| boolean value | Enables or disables publication of error events. |
| integer value | Maximum number of logged messages per rate_limit_interval. |
| string value | Log level name used by rate limiting: CRITICAL, ERROR, INFO, WARNING, DEBUG or empty string. Logs with level greater or equal to rate_limit_except_level are not filtered. An empty string means that all levels are filtered. |
| integer value | Interval, number of seconds, of log rate limiting. |
| integer value | The DHCP agent will resync its state with Neutron to recover from any transient notification or RPC errors. The interval is number of seconds between attempts. |
| string value | Syslog facility to receive log lines. This option is ignored if log_config_append is set. |
| boolean value | Enable journald for logging. If running in a systemd environment you may wish to enable journal support. Doing so will use the journal native protocol which includes structured metadata in addition to log messages.This option is ignored if log_config_append is set. |
| boolean value | Use JSON formatting for logging. This option is ignored if log_config_append is set. |
| boolean value | Use syslog for logging. Existing syslog format is DEPRECATED and will be changed later to honor RFC5424. This option is ignored if log_config_append is set. |
| boolean value | Log output to standard error. This option is ignored if log_config_append is set. |
| boolean value | Uses logging handler designed to watch file system. When log file is moved or removed this handler will open a new log file with specified path instantaneously. It makes sense only if log_file option is specified and Linux platform is used. This option is ignored if log_config_append is set. |
10.1.2. agent
The following table outlines the options available under the [agent]
group in the /etc/neutron/dhcp_agent.ini
file.
Configuration option = Default value | Type | Description |
---|---|---|
| string value | Availability zone of this node |
| boolean value | Log agent heartbeats |
| floating point value | Seconds between nodes reporting state to server; should be less than agent_down_time, best if it is half or less than agent_down_time. |
10.1.3. ovs
The following table outlines the options available under the [ovs]
group in the /etc/neutron/dhcp_agent.ini
file.
Configuration option = Default value | Type | Description |
---|---|---|
| integer value | The maximum number of MAC addresses to learn on a bridge managed by the Neutron OVS agent. Values outside a reasonable range (10 to 1,000,000) might be overridden by Open vSwitch according to the documentation. |
| string value | The connection string for the OVSDB backend. Will be used by ovsdb-client when monitoring and used for the all ovsdb commands when native ovsdb_interface is enabled |
| string value | The interface for interacting with the OVSDB |
| integer value | Timeout in seconds for ovsdb commands. If the timeout expires, ovsdb commands will fail with ALARMCLOCK error. |
| string value | The Certificate Authority (CA) certificate to use when interacting with OVSDB. Required when using an "ssl:" prefixed ovsdb_connection |
| string value | The SSL certificate file to use when interacting with OVSDB. Required when using an "ssl:" prefixed ovsdb_connection |
| string value | The SSL private key file to use when interacting with OVSDB. Required when using an "ssl:" prefixed ovsdb_connection |
10.2. l3_agent.ini
This section contains options for the /etc/neutron/l3_agent.ini
file.
10.2.1. DEFAULT
The following table outlines the options available under the [DEFAULT]
group in the /etc/neutron/l3_agent.ini
file.
Configuration option = Default value | Type | Description |
---|---|---|
| string value | The working mode for the agent. Allowed modes are: legacy - this preserves the existing behavior where the L3 agent is deployed on a centralized networking node to provide L3 services like DNAT, and SNAT. Use this mode if you do not want to adopt DVR. dvr - this mode enables DVR functionality and must be used for an L3 agent that runs on a compute host. dvr_snat - this enables centralized SNAT support in conjunction with DVR. This mode must be used for an L3 agent running on a centralized node (or in single-host deployments, e.g. devstack). dvr_no_external - this mode enables only East/West DVR routing functionality for a L3 agent that runs on a compute host, the North/South functionality such as DNAT and SNAT will be provided by the centralized network node that is running in dvr_snat mode. This mode should be used when there is no external network connectivity on the compute host. |
| integer value | Number of separate API worker processes for service. If not specified, the default is equal to the number of CPUs available for best performance. |
| boolean value | If set to true, the logging level will be set to DEBUG instead of the default INFO level. |
| list value | List of package logging levels in logger=LEVEL pairs. This option is ignored if log_config_append is set. |
| boolean value | Allow running metadata proxy. |
| string value | Iptables mangle mark used to mark ingress from external network. This mark will be masked with 0xffff so that only the lower 16 bits will be used. |
`external_network_bridge = ` | string value | Name of bridge used for external network traffic. When this parameter is set, the L3 agent will plug an interface directly into an external bridge which will not allow any wiring by the L2 agent. Using this will result in incorrect port statuses. This option is deprecated and will be removed in Ocata. |
| boolean value | Enables or disables fatal status of deprecations. |
`gateway_external_network_id = ` | string value | When external_network_bridge is set, each L3 agent can be associated with no more than one external network. This value should be set to the UUID of that external network. To allow L3 agent support multiple external networks, both the external_network_bridge and gateway_external_network_id must be left empty. |
| string value | Location to store keepalived/conntrackd config files |
| integer value | Number of concurrent threads for keepalived server connection requests. More threads create a higher CPU load on the agent node. |
| integer value | The advertisement interval in seconds |
| string value | VRRP authentication password |
| string value | VRRP authentication type |
| integer value | The VRRP health check interval in seconds. Values > 0 enable VRRP health checks. Setting it to 0 disables VRRP health checks. Recommended value is 5. This will cause pings to be sent to the gateway IP address(es) - requires ICMP_ECHO_REQUEST to be enabled on the gateway. If gateway fails, all routers will be reported as master, and master election will be repeated in round-robin fashion, until one of the router restore the gateway connection. |
| boolean value | Indicates that this L3 agent should also handle routers that do not have an external network gateway configured. This option should be True only for a single agent in a Neutron deployment, and may be False for all agents if all routers must have an external network gateway. |
`instance_format = [instance: %(uuid)s] ` | string value | The format for an instance that is passed with the log message. |
`instance_uuid_format = [instance: %(uuid)s] ` | string value | The format for an instance UUID that is passed with the log message. |
| string value | The driver used to manage the virtual interface. |
`ipv6_gateway = ` | string value | With IPv6, the network used for the external gateway does not need to have an associated subnet, since the automatically assigned link-local address (LLA) can be used. However, an IPv6 gateway address is needed for use as the next-hop for the default route. If no IPv6 gateway address is configured here, (and only then) the neutron router will be configured to get its default route from router advertisements (RAs) from the upstream router; in which case the upstream router must also be configured to send these RAs. The ipv6_gateway, when configured, should be the LLA of the interface on the upstream router. If a next-hop using a global unique address (GUA) is desired, it needs to be done via a subnet allocated to the network and not through this parameter. |
| string value | The name of a logging configuration file. This file is appended to any existing logging configuration files. For details about logging configuration files, see the Python logging module documentation. Note that when logging configuration files are used then all logging configuration is set in the configuration file and other logging configuration options are ignored (for example, logging_context_format_string). |
| string value | Defines the format string for %%(asctime)s in log records. Default: %(default)s . This option is ignored if log_config_append is set. |
| string value | (Optional) The base directory used for relative log_file paths. This option is ignored if log_config_append is set. |
| string value | (Optional) Name of log file to send logging output to. If no default is set, logging will go to stderr as defined by use_stderr. This option is ignored if log_config_append is set. |
| string value | Format string to use for log messages with context. |
| string value | Additional data to append to log message when logging level for the message is DEBUG. |
| string value | Format string to use for log messages when context is undefined. |
| string value | Prefix each line of exception output with this format. |
| string value | Defines the format string for %(user_identity)s that is used in logging_context_format_string. |
| integer value | MaxRtrAdvInterval setting for radvd.conf |
| string value | Iptables mangle mark used to mark metadata valid requests. This mark will be masked with 0xffff so that only the lower 16 bits will be used. |
| port value | TCP Port used by Neutron metadata namespace proxy. |
| integer value | MinRtrAdvInterval setting for radvd.conf |
| string value | Name of Open vSwitch bridge to use |
| boolean value | Uses veth for an OVS interface or not. Support kernels with limited namespace support (e.g. RHEL 6.5) and rate limiting on router’s gateway port so long as ovs_use_veth is set to True. |
| string value | Location to store IPv6 PD files. |
| integer value | Range of seconds to randomly delay when starting the periodic task scheduler to reduce stampeding. (Disable by setting to 0) |
| integer value | Seconds between running periodic tasks. |
| string value | Driver used for ipv6 prefix delegation. This needs to be an entry point defined in the neutron.agent.linux.pd_drivers namespace. See setup.cfg for entry points included with the neutron source. |
| boolean value | Enables or disables publication of error events. |
| string value | Location to store IPv6 RA config files |
| integer value | Maximum number of logged messages per rate_limit_interval. |
| string value | Log level name used by rate limiting: CRITICAL, ERROR, INFO, WARNING, DEBUG or empty string. Logs with level greater or equal to rate_limit_except_level are not filtered. An empty string means that all levels are filtered. |
| integer value | Interval, number of seconds, of log rate limiting. |
| integer value | Number of RPC worker processes dedicated to state reports queue. |
| integer value | Number of RPC worker processes for service. |
| string value | Syslog facility to receive log lines. This option is ignored if log_config_append is set. |
| boolean value | Enable journald for logging. If running in a systemd environment you may wish to enable journal support. Doing so will use the journal native protocol which includes structured metadata in addition to log messages.This option is ignored if log_config_append is set. |
| boolean value | Use JSON formatting for logging. This option is ignored if log_config_append is set. |
| boolean value | Use syslog for logging. Existing syslog format is DEPRECATED and will be changed later to honor RFC5424. This option is ignored if log_config_append is set. |
| boolean value | Log output to standard error. This option is ignored if log_config_append is set. |
| string value | A decimal value as Vendor’s Registered Private Enterprise Number as required by RFC3315 DUID-EN. |
| boolean value | Uses logging handler designed to watch file system. When log file is moved or removed this handler will open a new log file with specified path instantaneously. It makes sense only if log_file option is specified and Linux platform is used. This option is ignored if log_config_append is set. |
10.2.2. agent
The following table outlines the options available under the [agent]
group in the /etc/neutron/l3_agent.ini
file.
Configuration option = Default value | Type | Description |
---|---|---|
| string value | Availability zone of this node |
| list value | Extensions list to use |
| boolean value | Log agent heartbeats |
| floating point value | Seconds between nodes reporting state to server; should be less than agent_down_time, best if it is half or less than agent_down_time. |
10.2.3. ovs
The following table outlines the options available under the [ovs]
group in the /etc/neutron/l3_agent.ini
file.
Configuration option = Default value | Type | Description |
---|---|---|
| integer value | The maximum number of MAC addresses to learn on a bridge managed by the Neutron OVS agent. Values outside a reasonable range (10 to 1,000,000) might be overridden by Open vSwitch according to the documentation. |
| string value | The connection string for the OVSDB backend. Will be used by ovsdb-client when monitoring and used for the all ovsdb commands when native ovsdb_interface is enabled |
| string value | The interface for interacting with the OVSDB |
| integer value | Timeout in seconds for ovsdb commands. If the timeout expires, ovsdb commands will fail with ALARMCLOCK error. |
| string value | The Certificate Authority (CA) certificate to use when interacting with OVSDB. Required when using an "ssl:" prefixed ovsdb_connection |
| string value | The SSL certificate file to use when interacting with OVSDB. Required when using an "ssl:" prefixed ovsdb_connection |
| string value | The SSL private key file to use when interacting with OVSDB. Required when using an "ssl:" prefixed ovsdb_connection |
10.3. linuxbridge_agent.ini
This section contains options for the /etc/neutron/plugins/ml2/linuxbridge_agent.ini
file.
10.3.1. DEFAULT
The following table outlines the options available under the [DEFAULT]
group in the /etc/neutron/plugins/ml2/linuxbridge_agent.ini
file.
Configuration option = Default value | Type | Description |
---|---|---|
| boolean value | If set to true, the logging level will be set to DEBUG instead of the default INFO level. |
| list value | List of package logging levels in logger=LEVEL pairs. This option is ignored if log_config_append is set. |
| boolean value | Enables or disables fatal status of deprecations. |
`instance_format = [instance: %(uuid)s] ` | string value | The format for an instance that is passed with the log message. |
`instance_uuid_format = [instance: %(uuid)s] ` | string value | The format for an instance UUID that is passed with the log message. |
| string value | The name of a logging configuration file. This file is appended to any existing logging configuration files. For details about logging configuration files, see the Python logging module documentation. Note that when logging configuration files are used then all logging configuration is set in the configuration file and other logging configuration options are ignored (for example, logging_context_format_string). |
| string value | Defines the format string for %%(asctime)s in log records. Default: %(default)s . This option is ignored if log_config_append is set. |
| string value | (Optional) The base directory used for relative log_file paths. This option is ignored if log_config_append is set. |
| string value | (Optional) Name of log file to send logging output to. If no default is set, logging will go to stderr as defined by use_stderr. This option is ignored if log_config_append is set. |
| string value | Format string to use for log messages with context. |
| string value | Additional data to append to log message when logging level for the message is DEBUG. |
| string value | Format string to use for log messages when context is undefined. |
| string value | Prefix each line of exception output with this format. |
| string value | Defines the format string for %(user_identity)s that is used in logging_context_format_string. |
| boolean value | Enables or disables publication of error events. |
| integer value | Maximum number of logged messages per rate_limit_interval. |
| string value | Log level name used by rate limiting: CRITICAL, ERROR, INFO, WARNING, DEBUG or empty string. Logs with level greater or equal to rate_limit_except_level are not filtered. An empty string means that all levels are filtered. |
| integer value | Interval, number of seconds, of log rate limiting. |
| string value | Syslog facility to receive log lines. This option is ignored if log_config_append is set. |
| boolean value | Enable journald for logging. If running in a systemd environment you may wish to enable journal support. Doing so will use the journal native protocol which includes structured metadata in addition to log messages.This option is ignored if log_config_append is set. |
| boolean value | Use JSON formatting for logging. This option is ignored if log_config_append is set. |
| boolean value | Use syslog for logging. Existing syslog format is DEPRECATED and will be changed later to honor RFC5424. This option is ignored if log_config_append is set. |
| boolean value | Log output to standard error. This option is ignored if log_config_append is set. |
| boolean value | Uses logging handler designed to watch file system. When log file is moved or removed this handler will open a new log file with specified path instantaneously. It makes sense only if log_file option is specified and Linux platform is used. This option is ignored if log_config_append is set. |
10.3.2. agent
The following table outlines the options available under the [agent]
group in the /etc/neutron/plugins/ml2/linuxbridge_agent.ini
file.
Configuration option = Default value | Type | Description |
---|---|---|
| integer value | The DSCP value to use for outer headers during tunnel encapsulation. |
| boolean value | If set to True, the DSCP value of tunnel interfaces is overwritten and set to inherit. The DSCP value of the inner header is then copied to the outer header. |
| list value | Extensions list to use |
| integer value | The number of seconds the agent will wait between polling for local device changes. |
| integer value | Set new timeout in seconds for new rpc calls after agent receives SIGTERM. If value is set to 0, rpc timeout won’t be changed |
10.3.3. linux_bridge
The following table outlines the options available under the [linux_bridge]
group in the /etc/neutron/plugins/ml2/linuxbridge_agent.ini
file.
Configuration option = Default value | Type | Description |
---|---|---|
| list value | List of <physical_network>:<physical_bridge> |
| list value | Comma-separated list of <physical_network>:<physical_interface> tuples mapping physical network names to the agent’s node-specific physical network interfaces to be used for flat and VLAN networks. All physical networks listed in network_vlan_ranges on the server should have mappings to appropriate interfaces on each agent. |
10.3.4. network_log
The following table outlines the options available under the [network_log]
group in the /etc/neutron/plugins/ml2/linuxbridge_agent.ini
file.
Configuration option = Default value | Type | Description |
---|---|---|
| integer value | Maximum number of packets per rate_limit. |
| string value | Output logfile path on agent side, default syslog file. |
| integer value | Maximum packets logging per second. |
10.3.5. securitygroup
The following table outlines the options available under the [securitygroup]
group in the /etc/neutron/plugins/ml2/linuxbridge_agent.ini
file.
Configuration option = Default value | Type | Description |
---|---|---|
| boolean value | Use ipset to speed-up the iptables based security groups. Enabling ipset support requires that ipset is installed on L2 agent node. |
| boolean value | Controls whether the neutron security group API is enabled in the server. It should be false when using no security groups or using the nova security group API. |
| string value | Driver for security groups firewall in the L2 agent |
10.3.6. vxlan
The following table outlines the options available under the [vxlan]
group in the /etc/neutron/plugins/ml2/linuxbridge_agent.ini
file.
Configuration option = Default value | Type | Description |
---|---|---|
| boolean value | Enable local ARP responder which provides local responses instead of performing ARP broadcast into the overlay. Enabling local ARP responder is not fully compatible with the allowed-address-pairs extension. |
| boolean value | Enable VXLAN on the agent. Can be enabled when agent is managed by ml2 plugin using linuxbridge mechanism driver |
| boolean value | Extension to use alongside ml2 plugin’s l2population mechanism driver. It enables the plugin to populate VXLAN forwarding table. |
| IP address value | IP address of local overlay (tunnel) network endpoint. Use either an IPv4 or IPv6 address that resides on one of the host network interfaces. The IP version of this value must match the value of the overlay_ip_version option in the ML2 plug-in configuration file on the neutron server node(s). |
| list value | Optional comma-separated list of <multicast address>:<vni_min>:<vni_max> triples describing how to assign a multicast address to VXLAN according to its VNI ID. |
| integer value | TOS for vxlan interface protocol packets. This option is deprecated in favor of the dscp option in the AGENT section and will be removed in a future release. To convert the TOS value to DSCP, divide by 4. |
| integer value | TTL for vxlan interface protocol packets. |
| port value | The UDP port used for VXLAN communication. By default, the Linux kernel doesn’t use the IANA assigned standard value, so if you want to use it, this option must be set to 4789. It is not set by default because of backward compatibiltiy. |
| port value | The maximum of the UDP source port range used for VXLAN communication. |
| port value | The minimum of the UDP source port range used for VXLAN communication. |
| string value | Multicast group(s) for vxlan interface. A range of group addresses may be specified by using CIDR notation. Specifying a range allows different VNIs to use different group addresses, reducing or eliminating spurious broadcast traffic to the tunnel endpoints. To reserve a unique group for each possible (24-bit) VNI, use a /8 such as 239.0.0.0/8. This setting must be the same on all the agents. |
10.4. metadata_agent.ini
This section contains options for the /etc/neutron/metadata_agent.ini
file.
10.4.1. DEFAULT
The following table outlines the options available under the [DEFAULT]
group in the /etc/neutron/metadata_agent.ini
file.
Configuration option = Default value | Type | Description |
---|---|---|
| string value | Certificate Authority public key (CA cert) file for ssl |
| boolean value | If set to true, the logging level will be set to DEBUG instead of the default INFO level. |
| list value | List of package logging levels in logger=LEVEL pairs. This option is ignored if log_config_append is set. |
| boolean value | Enables or disables fatal status of deprecations. |
`instance_format = [instance: %(uuid)s] ` | string value | The format for an instance that is passed with the log message. |
`instance_uuid_format = [instance: %(uuid)s] ` | string value | The format for an instance UUID that is passed with the log message. |
| string value | The name of a logging configuration file. This file is appended to any existing logging configuration files. For details about logging configuration files, see the Python logging module documentation. Note that when logging configuration files are used then all logging configuration is set in the configuration file and other logging configuration options are ignored (for example, logging_context_format_string). |
| string value | Defines the format string for %%(asctime)s in log records. Default: %(default)s . This option is ignored if log_config_append is set. |
| string value | (Optional) The base directory used for relative log_file paths. This option is ignored if log_config_append is set. |
| string value | (Optional) Name of log file to send logging output to. If no default is set, logging will go to stderr as defined by use_stderr. This option is ignored if log_config_append is set. |
| string value | Format string to use for log messages with context. |
| string value | Additional data to append to log message when logging level for the message is DEBUG. |
| string value | Format string to use for log messages when context is undefined. |
| string value | Prefix each line of exception output with this format. |
| string value | Defines the format string for %(user_identity)s that is used in logging_context_format_string. |
| integer value | Number of backlog requests to configure the metadata server socket with |
`metadata_proxy_group = ` | string value | Group (gid or name) running metadata proxy after its initialization (if empty: agent effective group). |
`metadata_proxy_shared_secret = ` | string value | When proxying metadata requests, Neutron signs the Instance-ID header with a shared secret to prevent spoofing. You may select any string for a secret, but it must match here and in the configuration used by the Nova Metadata Server. NOTE: Nova uses the same config key, but in [neutron] section. |
| string value | Location for Metadata Proxy UNIX domain socket. |
| string value | Metadata Proxy UNIX domain socket mode, 4 values allowed: deduce: deduce mode from metadata_proxy_user/group values, user: set metadata proxy socket mode to 0o644, to use when metadata_proxy_user is agent effective user or root, group: set metadata proxy socket mode to 0o664, to use when metadata_proxy_group is agent effective group or root, all: set metadata proxy socket mode to 0o666, to use otherwise. |
`metadata_proxy_user = ` | string value | User (uid or name) running metadata proxy after its initialization (if empty: agent effective user). |
| integer value | Number of separate worker processes for metadata server (defaults to half of the number of CPUs) |
`nova_client_cert = ` | string value | Client certificate for nova metadata api server. |
`nova_client_priv_key = ` | string value | Private key of client certificate. |
| unknown value | IP address or DNS name of Nova metadata server. |
| boolean value | Allow to perform insecure SSL (https) requests to nova metadata |
| port value | TCP Port used by Nova metadata server. |
| string value | Protocol to access nova metadata, http or https |
| boolean value | Enables or disables publication of error events. |
| integer value | Maximum number of logged messages per rate_limit_interval. |
| string value | Log level name used by rate limiting: CRITICAL, ERROR, INFO, WARNING, DEBUG or empty string. Logs with level greater or equal to rate_limit_except_level are not filtered. An empty string means that all levels are filtered. |
| integer value | Interval, number of seconds, of log rate limiting. |
| string value | Syslog facility to receive log lines. This option is ignored if log_config_append is set. |
| boolean value | Enable journald for logging. If running in a systemd environment you may wish to enable journal support. Doing so will use the journal native protocol which includes structured metadata in addition to log messages.This option is ignored if log_config_append is set. |
| boolean value | Use JSON formatting for logging. This option is ignored if log_config_append is set. |
| boolean value | Use syslog for logging. Existing syslog format is DEPRECATED and will be changed later to honor RFC5424. This option is ignored if log_config_append is set. |
| boolean value | Log output to standard error. This option is ignored if log_config_append is set. |
| boolean value | Uses logging handler designed to watch file system. When log file is moved or removed this handler will open a new log file with specified path instantaneously. It makes sense only if log_file option is specified and Linux platform is used. This option is ignored if log_config_append is set. |
10.4.2. agent
The following table outlines the options available under the [agent]
group in the /etc/neutron/metadata_agent.ini
file.
Configuration option = Default value | Type | Description |
---|---|---|
| boolean value | Log agent heartbeats |
| floating point value | Seconds between nodes reporting state to server; should be less than agent_down_time, best if it is half or less than agent_down_time. |
10.4.3. cache
The following table outlines the options available under the [cache]
group in the /etc/neutron/metadata_agent.ini
file.
Configuration option = Default value | Type | Description |
---|---|---|
| string value | Cache backend module. For eventlet-based or environments with hundreds of threaded servers, Memcache with pooling (oslo_cache.memcache_pool) is recommended. For environments with less than 100 threaded servers, Memcached (dogpile.cache.memcached) or Redis (dogpile.cache.redis) is recommended. Test environments with a single instance of the server can use the dogpile.cache.memory backend. |
| multi valued | Arguments supplied to the backend module. Specify this option once per argument to be passed to the dogpile.cache backend. Example format: "<argname>:<value>". |
| string value | Prefix for building the configuration dictionary for the cache region. This should not need to be changed unless there is another dogpile.cache region with the same configuration name. |
| boolean value | Extra debugging from the cache backend (cache keys, get/set/delete/etc calls). This is only really useful if you need to see the specific cache-backend get/set/delete calls with the keys/values. Typically this should be left set to false. |
| boolean value | Global toggle for caching. |
| integer value | Default TTL, in seconds, for any cached item in the dogpile.cache region. This applies to any cached method that doesn’t have an explicit cache expiration time defined for it. |
| integer value | Number of seconds memcached server is considered dead before it is tried again. (dogpile.cache.memcache and oslo_cache.memcache_pool backends only). |
| integer value | Number of seconds that an operation will wait to get a memcache client connection. |
| integer value | Max total number of open connections to every memcached server. (oslo_cache.memcache_pool backend only). |
| integer value | Number of seconds a connection to memcached is held unused in the pool before it is closed. (oslo_cache.memcache_pool backend only). |
| list value | Memcache servers in the format of "host:port". (dogpile.cache.memcache and oslo_cache.memcache_pool backends only). |
| integer value | Timeout in seconds for every call to a server. (dogpile.cache.memcache and oslo_cache.memcache_pool backends only). |
| list value | Proxy classes to import that will affect the way the dogpile.cache backend functions. See the dogpile.cache documentation on changing-backend-behavior. |
10.5. metering_agent.ini
This section contains options for the /etc/neutron/metering_agent.ini
file.
10.5.1. DEFAULT
The following table outlines the options available under the [DEFAULT]
group in the /etc/neutron/metering_agent.ini
file.
Configuration option = Default value | Type | Description |
---|---|---|
| boolean value | If set to true, the logging level will be set to DEBUG instead of the default INFO level. |
| list value | List of package logging levels in logger=LEVEL pairs. This option is ignored if log_config_append is set. |
| string value | Metering driver |
| boolean value | Enables or disables fatal status of deprecations. |
`instance_format = [instance: %(uuid)s] ` | string value | The format for an instance that is passed with the log message. |
`instance_uuid_format = [instance: %(uuid)s] ` | string value | The format for an instance UUID that is passed with the log message. |
| string value | The driver used to manage the virtual interface. |
| string value | The name of a logging configuration file. This file is appended to any existing logging configuration files. For details about logging configuration files, see the Python logging module documentation. Note that when logging configuration files are used then all logging configuration is set in the configuration file and other logging configuration options are ignored (for example, logging_context_format_string). |
| string value | Defines the format string for %%(asctime)s in log records. Default: %(default)s . This option is ignored if log_config_append is set. |
| string value | (Optional) The base directory used for relative log_file paths. This option is ignored if log_config_append is set. |
| string value | (Optional) Name of log file to send logging output to. If no default is set, logging will go to stderr as defined by use_stderr. This option is ignored if log_config_append is set. |
| string value | Format string to use for log messages with context. |
| string value | Additional data to append to log message when logging level for the message is DEBUG. |
| string value | Format string to use for log messages when context is undefined. |
| string value | Prefix each line of exception output with this format. |
| string value | Defines the format string for %(user_identity)s that is used in logging_context_format_string. |
| integer value | Interval between two metering measures |
| string value | Name of Open vSwitch bridge to use |
| boolean value | Uses veth for an OVS interface or not. Support kernels with limited namespace support (e.g. RHEL 6.5) and rate limiting on router’s gateway port so long as ovs_use_veth is set to True. |
| boolean value | Enables or disables publication of error events. |
| integer value | Maximum number of logged messages per rate_limit_interval. |
| string value | Log level name used by rate limiting: CRITICAL, ERROR, INFO, WARNING, DEBUG or empty string. Logs with level greater or equal to rate_limit_except_level are not filtered. An empty string means that all levels are filtered. |
| integer value | Interval, number of seconds, of log rate limiting. |
| integer value | Interval between two metering reports |
| string value | Syslog facility to receive log lines. This option is ignored if log_config_append is set. |
| boolean value | Enable journald for logging. If running in a systemd environment you may wish to enable journal support. Doing so will use the journal native protocol which includes structured metadata in addition to log messages.This option is ignored if log_config_append is set. |
| boolean value | Use JSON formatting for logging. This option is ignored if log_config_append is set. |
| boolean value | Use syslog for logging. Existing syslog format is DEPRECATED and will be changed later to honor RFC5424. This option is ignored if log_config_append is set. |
| boolean value | Log output to standard error. This option is ignored if log_config_append is set. |
| boolean value | Uses logging handler designed to watch file system. When log file is moved or removed this handler will open a new log file with specified path instantaneously. It makes sense only if log_file option is specified and Linux platform is used. This option is ignored if log_config_append is set. |
10.5.2. agent
The following table outlines the options available under the [agent]
group in the /etc/neutron/metering_agent.ini
file.
Configuration option = Default value | Type | Description |
---|---|---|
| boolean value | Log agent heartbeats |
| floating point value | Seconds between nodes reporting state to server; should be less than agent_down_time, best if it is half or less than agent_down_time. |
10.5.3. ovs
The following table outlines the options available under the [ovs]
group in the /etc/neutron/metering_agent.ini
file.
Configuration option = Default value | Type | Description |
---|---|---|
| integer value | The maximum number of MAC addresses to learn on a bridge managed by the Neutron OVS agent. Values outside a reasonable range (10 to 1,000,000) might be overridden by Open vSwitch according to the documentation. |
| string value | The connection string for the OVSDB backend. Will be used by ovsdb-client when monitoring and used for the all ovsdb commands when native ovsdb_interface is enabled |
| string value | The interface for interacting with the OVSDB |
| integer value | Timeout in seconds for ovsdb commands. If the timeout expires, ovsdb commands will fail with ALARMCLOCK error. |
| string value | The Certificate Authority (CA) certificate to use when interacting with OVSDB. Required when using an "ssl:" prefixed ovsdb_connection |
| string value | The SSL certificate file to use when interacting with OVSDB. Required when using an "ssl:" prefixed ovsdb_connection |
| string value | The SSL private key file to use when interacting with OVSDB. Required when using an "ssl:" prefixed ovsdb_connection |
10.6. ml2_conf.ini
This section contains options for the /etc/neutron/plugins/ml2/ml2_conf.ini
file.
10.6.1. DEFAULT
The following table outlines the options available under the [DEFAULT]
group in the /etc/neutron/plugins/ml2/ml2_conf.ini
file.
Configuration option = Default value | Type | Description |
---|---|---|
| boolean value | If set to true, the logging level will be set to DEBUG instead of the default INFO level. |
| list value | List of package logging levels in logger=LEVEL pairs. This option is ignored if log_config_append is set. |
| boolean value | Enables or disables fatal status of deprecations. |
`instance_format = [instance: %(uuid)s] ` | string value | The format for an instance that is passed with the log message. |
`instance_uuid_format = [instance: %(uuid)s] ` | string value | The format for an instance UUID that is passed with the log message. |
| string value | The name of a logging configuration file. This file is appended to any existing logging configuration files. For details about logging configuration files, see the Python logging module documentation. Note that when logging configuration files are used then all logging configuration is set in the configuration file and other logging configuration options are ignored (for example, logging_context_format_string). |
| string value | Defines the format string for %%(asctime)s in log records. Default: %(default)s . This option is ignored if log_config_append is set. |
| string value | (Optional) The base directory used for relative log_file paths. This option is ignored if log_config_append is set. |
| string value | (Optional) Name of log file to send logging output to. If no default is set, logging will go to stderr as defined by use_stderr. This option is ignored if log_config_append is set. |
| string value | Format string to use for log messages with context. |
| string value | Additional data to append to log message when logging level for the message is DEBUG. |
| string value | Format string to use for log messages when context is undefined. |
| string value | Prefix each line of exception output with this format. |
| string value | Defines the format string for %(user_identity)s that is used in logging_context_format_string. |
| boolean value | Enables or disables publication of error events. |
| integer value | Maximum number of logged messages per rate_limit_interval. |
| string value | Log level name used by rate limiting: CRITICAL, ERROR, INFO, WARNING, DEBUG or empty string. Logs with level greater or equal to rate_limit_except_level are not filtered. An empty string means that all levels are filtered. |
| integer value | Interval, number of seconds, of log rate limiting. |
| string value | Syslog facility to receive log lines. This option is ignored if log_config_append is set. |
| boolean value | Enable journald for logging. If running in a systemd environment you may wish to enable journal support. Doing so will use the journal native protocol which includes structured metadata in addition to log messages.This option is ignored if log_config_append is set. |
| boolean value | Use JSON formatting for logging. This option is ignored if log_config_append is set. |
| boolean value | Use syslog for logging. Existing syslog format is DEPRECATED and will be changed later to honor RFC5424. This option is ignored if log_config_append is set. |
| boolean value | Log output to standard error. This option is ignored if log_config_append is set. |
| boolean value | Uses logging handler designed to watch file system. When log file is moved or removed this handler will open a new log file with specified path instantaneously. It makes sense only if log_file option is specified and Linux platform is used. This option is ignored if log_config_append is set. |
10.6.2. l2pop
The following table outlines the options available under the [l2pop]
group in the /etc/neutron/plugins/ml2/ml2_conf.ini
file.
Configuration option = Default value | Type | Description |
---|---|---|
| integer value | Delay within which agent is expected to update existing ports when it restarts |
10.6.3. ml2
The following table outlines the options available under the [ml2]
group in the /etc/neutron/plugins/ml2/ml2_conf.ini
file.
Configuration option = Default value | Type | Description |
---|---|---|
| list value | An ordered list of extension driver entrypoints to be loaded from the neutron.ml2.extension_drivers namespace. For example: extension_drivers = port_security,qos |
| string value | Default network type for external networks when no provider attributes are specified. By default it is None, which means that if provider attributes are not specified while creating external networks then they will have the same type as tenant networks. Allowed values for external_network_type config option depend on the network type values configured in type_drivers config option. |
| list value | An ordered list of networking mechanism driver entrypoints to be loaded from the neutron.ml2.mechanism_drivers namespace. |
| integer value | IP version of all overlay (tunnel) network endpoints. Use a value of 4 for IPv4 or 6 for IPv6. |
| integer value | Maximum size of an IP packet (MTU) that can traverse the underlying physical network infrastructure without fragmentation when using an overlay/tunnel protocol. This option allows specifying a physical network MTU value that differs from the default global_physnet_mtu value. |
| list value | A list of mappings of physical networks to MTU values. The format of the mapping is <physnet>:<mtu val>. This mapping allows specifying a physical network MTU value that differs from the default global_physnet_mtu value. |
| list value | Ordered list of network_types to allocate as tenant networks. The default value local is useful for single-box testing but provides no connectivity between hosts. |
| list value | List of network type driver entrypoints to be loaded from the neutron.ml2.type_drivers namespace. |
10.6.4. ml2_type_flat
The following table outlines the options available under the [ml2_type_flat]
group in the /etc/neutron/plugins/ml2/ml2_conf.ini
file.
Configuration option = Default value | Type | Description |
---|---|---|
| list value | List of physical_network names with which flat networks can be created. Use default * to allow flat networks with arbitrary physical_network names. Use an empty list to disable flat networks. |
10.6.5. ml2_type_geneve
The following table outlines the options available under the [ml2_type_geneve]
group in the /etc/neutron/plugins/ml2/ml2_conf.ini
file.
Configuration option = Default value | Type | Description |
---|---|---|
| integer value | Geneve encapsulation header size is dynamic, this value is used to calculate the maximum MTU for the driver. This is the sum of the sizes of the outer ETH + IP + UDP + GENEVE header sizes. The default size for this field is 50, which is the size of the Geneve header without any additional option headers. |
| list value | Comma-separated list of <vni_min>:<vni_max> tuples enumerating ranges of Geneve VNI IDs that are available for tenant network allocation |
10.6.6. ml2_type_gre
The following table outlines the options available under the [ml2_type_gre]
group in the /etc/neutron/plugins/ml2/ml2_conf.ini
file.
Configuration option = Default value | Type | Description |
---|---|---|
| list value | Comma-separated list of <tun_min>:<tun_max> tuples enumerating ranges of GRE tunnel IDs that are available for tenant network allocation |
10.6.7. ml2_type_vlan
The following table outlines the options available under the [ml2_type_vlan]
group in the /etc/neutron/plugins/ml2/ml2_conf.ini
file.
Configuration option = Default value | Type | Description |
---|---|---|
| list value | List of <physical_network>:<vlan_min>:<vlan_max> or <physical_network> specifying physical_network names usable for VLAN provider and tenant networks, as well as ranges of VLAN tags on each available for allocation to tenant networks. |
10.6.8. ml2_type_vxlan
The following table outlines the options available under the [ml2_type_vxlan]
group in the /etc/neutron/plugins/ml2/ml2_conf.ini
file.
Configuration option = Default value | Type | Description |
---|---|---|
| list value | Comma-separated list of <vni_min>:<vni_max> tuples enumerating ranges of VXLAN VNI IDs that are available for tenant network allocation |
| string value | Multicast group for VXLAN. When configured, will enable sending all broadcast traffic to this multicast group. When left unconfigured, will disable multicast VXLAN mode. |
10.6.9. securitygroup
The following table outlines the options available under the [securitygroup]
group in the /etc/neutron/plugins/ml2/ml2_conf.ini
file.
Configuration option = Default value | Type | Description |
---|---|---|
| boolean value | Use ipset to speed-up the iptables based security groups. Enabling ipset support requires that ipset is installed on L2 agent node. |
| boolean value | Controls whether the neutron security group API is enabled in the server. It should be false when using no security groups or using the nova security group API. |
| string value | Driver for security groups firewall in the L2 agent |
10.7. neutron.conf
This section contains options for the /etc/neutron/neutron.conf
file.
10.7.1. DEFAULT
The following table outlines the options available under the [DEFAULT]
group in the /etc/neutron/neutron.conf
file.
Configuration option = Default value | Type | Description |
---|---|---|
| integer value | Seconds to regard the agent is down; should be at least twice report_interval, to be sure the agent is down for good. |
| boolean value | Automatically remove networks from offline DHCP agents. |
| boolean value | Automatically reschedule routers from offline L3 agents to online L3 agents. |
| boolean value | Allow the usage of the bulk API |
| boolean value | Allow overlapping IP support in Neutron. Attention: the following parameter MUST be set to False if Neutron is being used in conjunction with Nova security groups. |
`api_extensions_path = ` | string value | The path for API extensions. Note that this can be a colon-separated list of paths. For example: api_extensions_path = extensions:/path/to/more/exts:/even/more/exts. The path of neutron.extensions is appended to this, so if your extensions are in there you don’t need to specify them here. |
| string value | File name for the paste.deploy config for api service |
| integer value | Number of separate API worker processes for service. If not specified, the default is equal to the number of CPUs available for best performance. |
| string value | The type of authentication to use |
| integer value | Number of backlog requests to configure the socket with |
| string value | The base MAC address Neutron will use for VIFs. The first 3 octets will remain unchanged. If the 4th octet is not 00, it will also be used. The others will be randomly generated. |
| unknown value | The host IP to bind to. |
| port value | The port to bind to |
| integer value | Timeout for client connections' socket operations. If an incoming connection is idle for this number of seconds it will be closed. A value of 0 means wait forever. |
| integer value | The pool size limit for connections expiration policy |
| integer value | The time-to-live in sec of idle connections in the pool |
| string value | The default exchange under which topics are scoped. May be overridden by an exchange name specified in the transport_url option. |
| string value | The core plugin Neutron will use |
| boolean value | If set to true, the logging level will be set to DEBUG instead of the default INFO level. |
| list value | Default value of availability zone hints. The availability zone aware schedulers use this when the resources availability_zone_hints is empty. Multiple availability zones can be specified by a comma separated string. This value can be empty. In this case, even if availability_zone_hints for a resource is empty, availability zone is considered for high availability while scheduling the resource. |
| list value | List of package logging levels in logger=LEVEL pairs. This option is ignored if log_config_append is set. |
| boolean value | Allow sending resource operation notification to DHCP agent |
| integer value | Number of DHCP agents scheduled to host a tenant network. If this number is greater than 1, the scheduler automatically assigns multiple DHCP agents for a given tenant network, providing high availability for DHCP service. |
| integer value | DHCP lease duration (in seconds). Use -1 to tell dnsmasq to use infinite lease times. |
| string value | Representing the resource type whose load is being reported by the agent. This can be "networks", "subnets" or "ports". When specified (Default is networks), the server will extract particular load sent as part of its agent configuration object from the agent report state, which is the number of resources being consumed, at every report_interval.dhcp_load_type can be used in combination with network_scheduler_driver = neutron.scheduler.dhcp_agent_scheduler.WeightScheduler When the network_scheduler_driver is WeightScheduler, dhcp_load_type can be configured to represent the choice for the resource being balanced. Example: dhcp_load_type=networks |
| string value | Domain to use for building the hostnames |
| string value | The base mac address used for unique DVR instances by Neutron. The first 3 octets will remain unchanged. If the 4th octet is not 00, it will also be used. The others will be randomly generated. The dvr_base_mac must be different from base_mac to avoid mixing them up with MAC’s allocated for tenant ports. A 4 octet example would be dvr_base_mac = fa:16:3f:4f:00:00. The default is 3 octet |
| boolean value | Determine if setup is configured for DVR. If False, DVR API extension will be disabled. |
| boolean value | Agent starts with admin_state_up=False when enable_new_agents=False. In the case, user’s resources will not be scheduled automatically to the agent until admin changes admin_state_up to True. |
| boolean value | Enable services on an agent with admin_state_up False. If this option is False, when admin_state_up of an agent is turned False, services on it will be disabled. Agents with admin_state_up False are not selected for automatic scheduling regardless of this option. But manual scheduling to such agents is available if this option is True. |
| boolean value | Define the default value of enable_snat if not provided in external_gateway_info. |
| integer value | Size of executor thread pool when executor is threading or eventlet. |
| string value | Driver for external DNS integration. |
| boolean value | Enables or disables fatal status of deprecations. |
| integer value | MTU of the underlying physical network. Neutron uses this value to calculate MTU for all virtual network components. For flat and VLAN networks, neutron uses this value without modification. For overlay networks such as VXLAN, neutron automatically subtracts the overlay protocol overhead from this value. Defaults to 1500, the standard value for Ethernet. |
| unknown value | Hostname to be used by the Neutron server, agents and services running on this machine. All the agents and services running on this machine must use the same host value. |
`instance_format = [instance: %(uuid)s] ` | string value | The format for an instance that is passed with the log message. |
`instance_uuid_format = [instance: %(uuid)s] ` | string value | The format for an instance UUID that is passed with the log message. |
| string value | The driver used to manage the virtual interface. |
| string value | Neutron IPAM (IP address management) driver to use. By default, the reference implementation of the Neutron IPAM driver is used. |
| boolean value | Enables IPv6 Prefix Delegation for automatic subnet CIDR allocation. Set to True to enable IPv6 Prefix Delegation for subnet allocation in a PD-capable environment. Users making subnet creation requests for IPv6 subnets without providing a CIDR or subnetpool ID will be given a CIDR via the Prefix Delegation mechanism. Note that enabling PD will override the behavior of the default IPv6 subnetpool. |
| boolean value | Enable HA mode for virtual routers. |
| string value | Subnet used for the l3 HA admin network. |
`l3_ha_network_physical_name = ` | string value | The physical network name with which the HA network can be created. |
`l3_ha_network_type = ` | string value | The network type to use when creating the HA network for an HA router. By default or if empty, the first tenant_network_types is used. This is helpful when the VRRP traffic should use a specific network which is not the default one. |
| string value | The name of a logging configuration file. This file is appended to any existing logging configuration files. For details about logging configuration files, see the Python logging module documentation. Note that when logging configuration files are used then all logging configuration is set in the configuration file and other logging configuration options are ignored (for example, logging_context_format_string). |
| string value | Defines the format string for %%(asctime)s in log records. Default: %(default)s . This option is ignored if log_config_append is set. |
| string value | (Optional) The base directory used for relative log_file paths. This option is ignored if log_config_append is set. |
| string value | (Optional) Name of log file to send logging output to. If no default is set, logging will go to stderr as defined by use_stderr. This option is ignored if log_config_append is set. |
| string value | Format string to use for log messages with context. |
| string value | Additional data to append to log message when logging level for the message is DEBUG. |
| string value | Format string to use for log messages when context is undefined. |
| string value | Prefix each line of exception output with this format. |
| string value | Defines the format string for %(user_identity)s that is used in logging_context_format_string. |
| integer value | Maximum number of allowed address pairs |
| integer value | Maximum number of DNS nameservers per subnet |
| integer value | Maximum line size of message headers to be accepted. max_header_line may need to be increased when using large tokens (typically those generated when keystone is configured to use PKI tokens with big service catalogs). |
| integer value | Maximum number of L3 agents which a HA router will be scheduled on. If it is set to 0 then the router will be scheduled on every agent. |
| integer value | Maximum number of routes per router |
| integer value | Maximum number of host routes per subnet |
`metadata_proxy_group = ` | string value | Group (gid or name) running metadata proxy after its initialization (if empty: agent effective group). |
| string value | Location for Metadata Proxy UNIX domain socket. |
`metadata_proxy_user = ` | string value | User (uid or name) running metadata proxy after its initialization (if empty: agent effective user). |
| boolean value | Allow auto scheduling networks to DHCP agent. |
| string value | This string is prepended to the normal URL that is returned in links to the OpenStack Network API. If it is empty (the default), the URLs are returned unchanged. |
| string value | Driver to use for scheduling network to DHCP agent |
| boolean value | Send notification to nova when port data (fixed_ips/floatingip) changes so nova can update its cache. |
| boolean value | Send notification to nova when port status changes |
| string value | The maximum number of items returned in a single response, value was infinite or negative integer means no limit |
| integer value | Range of seconds to randomly delay when starting the periodic task scheduler to reduce stampeding. (Disable by setting to 0) |
| integer value | Seconds between running periodic tasks. |
| boolean value | Enables or disables publication of error events. |
| integer value | Maximum number of logged messages per rate_limit_interval. |
| string value | Log level name used by rate limiting: CRITICAL, ERROR, INFO, WARNING, DEBUG or empty string. Logs with level greater or equal to rate_limit_except_level are not filtered. An empty string means that all levels are filtered. |
| integer value | Interval, number of seconds, of log rate limiting. |
| integer value | Number of seconds to keep retrying to listen |
| boolean value | Allow auto scheduling of routers to L3 agent. |
| boolean value | System-wide flag to determine the type of router that tenants can create. Only admin can override. |
| string value | Driver to use for scheduling router to a default L3 agent |
| integer value | Number of seconds to wait for an ack from a cast/call. After each retry attempt this timeout is multiplied by some specified multiplier. |
| integer value | Number to multiply base ack timeout by after each retry attempt. |
| string value | The messaging driver to use, defaults to rabbit. Other drivers include amqp and zmq. |
| integer value | Size of RPC connection pool. |
| integer value | Expiration timeout in seconds of a sent/received message after which it is not tracked anymore by a client/server. |
| integer value | The default number of seconds that poll should wait. Poll raises timeout exception when timeout expired. |
| integer value | Seconds to wait for a response from a call. |
| integer value | Default number of message sending attempts in case of any problems occurred: positive value N means at most N retries, 0 means no retries, None or -1 (or any other negative values) mean to retry forever. This option is used only if acknowledgments are enabled. |
| integer value | Number of RPC worker processes dedicated to state reports queue. |
| integer value | Maximum number of (green) threads to work concurrently. |
| boolean value | Wait for message acknowledgements from receivers. This mechanism works only via proxy without PUB/SUB. |
| integer value | Number of RPC worker processes for service. |
| string value | ZeroMQ bind address. Should be a wildcard (*), an ethernet interface, or IP. The "host" option should point or resolve to this address. |
| integer value | Number of retries to find free port number before fail with ZMQBindError. |
| integer value | Number of ZeroMQ contexts, defaults to 1. |
| string value | Name of this node. Must be a valid hostname, FQDN, or IP address. Must match "host" option, if running Nova. |
| string value | Directory for holding IPC sockets. |
| string value | MatchMaker driver. |
| integer value | Maximal port number for random ports range. |
| port value | Minimal port number for random ports range. |
| string value | Default serialization mechanism for serializing/deserializing outgoing/incoming messages |
| integer value | Maximum number of ingress messages to locally buffer per topic. Default is unlimited. |
| integer value | Number of seconds between sending events to nova if there are any events to send. |
| list value | The service plugins Neutron will use |
| string value | Where to store Neutron state files. This directory must be writable by the agent. |
| list value | List of publisher hosts SubConsumer can subscribe on. This option has higher priority then the default publishers list taken from the matchmaker. |
| string value | Syslog facility to receive log lines. This option is ignored if log_config_append is set. |
| integer value | Sets the value of TCP_KEEPIDLE in seconds for each server socket. Not supported on OS X. |
| string value | The network address and optional user credentials for connecting to the messaging backend, in URL format. The expected format is: driver://[user:pass@]host:port[,[userN:passN@]hostN:portN]/virtual_host?query Example: rabbit://rabbitmq:password@127.0.0.1:5672// For full details on the fields in the URL see the documentation of oslo_messaging.TransportURL at https://docs.openstack.org/oslo.messaging/latest/reference/transport.html |
| boolean value | Enable journald for logging. If running in a systemd environment you may wish to enable journal support. Doing so will use the journal native protocol which includes structured metadata in addition to log messages.This option is ignored if log_config_append is set. |
| boolean value | Use JSON formatting for logging. This option is ignored if log_config_append is set. |
| boolean value | Use syslog for logging. Existing syslog format is DEPRECATED and will be changed later to honor RFC5424. This option is ignored if log_config_append is set. |
| boolean value | This option makes direct connections dynamic or static. It makes sense only with use_router_proxy=False which means to use direct connections for direct message types (ignored otherwise). |
| boolean value | Use PUB/SUB pattern for fanout methods. PUB/SUB always uses proxy. |
| boolean value | Use ROUTER remote proxy. |
| boolean value | Enable SSL on the API server |
| boolean value | Log output to standard error. This option is ignored if log_config_append is set. |
| boolean value | If True, then allow plugins that support it to create VLAN transparent networks. |
| boolean value | Uses logging handler designed to watch file system. When log file is moved or removed this handler will open a new log file with specified path instantaneously. It makes sense only if log_file option is specified and Linux platform is used. This option is ignored if log_config_append is set. |
| integer value | Size of the pool of greenthreads used by wsgi |
| boolean value | If False, closes the client socket connection explicitly. |
| string value | A python format string that is used as the template to generate log lines. The following values can beformatted into it: client_ip, date_time, request_line, status_code, body_length, wall_seconds. |
| integer value | How many additional connections to a host will be made for failover reasons. This option is actual only in dynamic connections mode. |
| boolean value | This option configures round-robin mode in zmq socket. True means not keeping a queue when server side disconnects. False means to keep queue and messages even if server is disconnected, when the server appears we send all accumulated messages to it. |
| integer value | Number of seconds to wait before all pending messages will be sent after closing a socket. The default value of -1 specifies an infinite linger period. The value of 0 specifies no linger period. Pending messages shall be discarded immediately when the socket is closed. Positive values specify an upper bound for the linger period. |
| integer value | Expiration timeout in seconds of a name service record about existing target ( < 0 means no timeout). |
| integer value | Update period in seconds of a name service record about existing target. |
| integer value | Enable/disable TCP keepalive (KA) mechanism. The default value of -1 (or any other negative value) means to skip any overrides and leave it to OS default; 0 and 1 (or any other positive value) mean to disable and enable the option respectively. |
| integer value | The number of retransmissions to be carried out before declaring that remote end is not available. The default value of -1 (or any other negative value and 0) means to skip any overrides and leave it to OS default. |
| integer value | The duration between two keepalive transmissions in idle condition. The unit is platform dependent, for example, seconds in Linux, milliseconds in Windows etc. The default value of -1 (or any other negative value and 0) means to skip any overrides and leave it to OS default. |
| integer value | The duration between two successive keepalive retransmissions, if acknowledgement to the previous keepalive transmission is not received. The unit is platform dependent, for example, seconds in Linux, milliseconds in Windows etc. The default value of -1 (or any other negative value and 0) means to skip any overrides and leave it to OS default. |
10.7.2. agent
The following table outlines the options available under the [agent]
group in the /etc/neutron/neutron.conf
file.
Configuration option = Default value | Type | Description |
---|---|---|
| string value | Availability zone of this node |
| string value | Action to be executed when a child process dies |
| integer value | Interval between checks of child process liveness (seconds), use 0 to disable |
| boolean value | Add comments to iptables rules. Set to false to disallow the addition of comments to generated iptables rules that describe each rule’s purpose. System must support the iptables comments module for addition of comments. |
| boolean value | Duplicate every iptables difference calculation to ensure the format being generated matches the format of iptables-save. This option should not be turned on for production systems because it imposes a performance penalty. |
| boolean value | Log agent heartbeats |
| floating point value | Seconds between nodes reporting state to server; should be less than agent_down_time, best if it is half or less than agent_down_time. |
| string value | Root helper application. Use sudo neutron-rootwrap /etc/neutron/rootwrap.conf to use the real root filter facility. Change to sudo to skip the filtering and just run the command directly. |
| string value | Root helper daemon application to use when possible. For the agent which needs to execute commands in Dom0 in the hypervisor of XenServer, this item should be set to xenapi_root_helper, so that it will keep a XenAPI session to pass commands to Dom0. |
| boolean value | Use the root helper when listing the namespaces on a system. This may not be required depending on the security configuration. If the root helper is not required, set this to False for a performance improvement. |
10.7.3. cors
The following table outlines the options available under the [cors]
group in the /etc/neutron/neutron.conf
file.
Configuration option = Default value | Type | Description |
---|---|---|
| boolean value | Indicate that the actual request can include user credentials |
| list value | Indicate which header field names may be used during the actual request. |
| list value | Indicate which methods can be used during the actual request. |
| list value | Indicate whether this resource may be shared with the domain received in the requests "origin" header. Format: "<protocol>://<host>[:<port>]", no trailing slash. Example: https://horizon.example.com |
| list value | Indicate which headers are safe to expose to the API. Defaults to HTTP Simple Headers. |
| integer value | Maximum cache age of CORS preflight requests. |
10.7.4. database
The following table outlines the options available under the [database]
group in the /etc/neutron/neutron.conf
file.
Configuration option = Default value | Type | Description |
---|---|---|
| string value | The back end to use for the database. |
| string value | The SQLAlchemy connection string to use to connect to the database. |
| integer value | Verbosity of SQL debugging information: 0=None, 100=Everything. |
| integer value | Connections which have been present in the connection pool longer than this number of seconds will be replaced with a new one the next time they are checked out from the pool. |
| boolean value | Add Python stack traces to SQL as comment strings. |
| boolean value | If True, increases the interval between retries of a database operation up to db_max_retry_interval. |
| integer value | Maximum retries in case of connection error or deadlock error before error is raised. Set to -1 to specify an infinite retry count. |
| integer value | If db_inc_retry_interval is set, the maximum seconds between retries of a database operation. |
| integer value | Seconds between retries of a database transaction. |
`engine = ` | string value | Database engine for which script will be generated when using offline migration. |
| integer value | If set, use this value for max_overflow with SQLAlchemy. |
| integer value | Maximum number of SQL connections to keep open in a pool. Setting a value of 0 indicates no limit. |
| integer value | Maximum number of database connection retries during startup. Set to -1 to specify an infinite retry count. |
| integer value | Minimum number of SQL connections to keep open in a pool. |
| boolean value | If True, transparently enables support for handling MySQL Cluster (NDB). |
| string value | The SQL mode to be used for MySQL sessions. This option, including the default, overrides any server-set SQL mode. To use whatever SQL mode is set by the server configuration, set this to no value. Example: mysql_sql_mode= |
| integer value | If set, use this value for pool_timeout with SQLAlchemy. |
| integer value | Interval between retries of opening a SQL connection. |
| string value | The SQLAlchemy connection string to use to connect to the slave database. |
| boolean value | If True, SQLite uses synchronous mode. |
| boolean value | Enable the experimental use of database reconnect on connection lost. |
10.7.5. keystone_authtoken
The following table outlines the options available under the [keystone_authtoken]
group in the /etc/neutron/neutron.conf
file.
Configuration option = Default value | Type | Description |
---|---|---|
| string value | Config Section from which to load plugin specific options |
| string value | Authentication type to load |
| string value | Complete "public" Identity API endpoint. This endpoint should not be an "admin" endpoint, as it should be accessible by all end users. Unauthenticated clients are redirected to this endpoint to authenticate. Although this endpoint should ideally be unversioned, client support in the wild varies. If you’re using a versioned v2 endpoint here, then this should not be the same endpoint the service user utilizes for validating tokens, because normal end users may not be able to reach that endpoint. This option is deprecated in favor of www_authenticate_uri and will be removed in the S release. |
| string value | API version of the admin Identity API endpoint. |
| string value |
Request environment key where the Swift cache object is stored. When auth_token middleware is deployed with a Swift cache, use this option to have the middleware share a caching backend with swift. Otherwise, use the |
| string value | A PEM encoded Certificate Authority to use when verifying HTTPs connections. Defaults to system CAs. |
| string value | Required if identity server requires client certificate |
| boolean value | If true, the revocation list will be checked for cached tokens. This requires that PKI tokens are configured on the identity server. |
| boolean value | Do not handle authorization requests within the middleware, but delegate the authorization decision to downstream WSGI components. |
| string value | Used to control the use and type of token binding. Can be set to: "disabled" to not check token binding. "permissive" (default) to validate binding information if the bind type is of a form known to the server and ignore it if not. "strict" like "permissive" but if the bind type is unknown the token will be rejected. "required" any form of token binding is needed to be allowed. Finally the name of a binding method that must be present in tokens. |
| list value | Hash algorithms to use for hashing PKI tokens. This may be a single algorithm or multiple. The algorithms are those supported by Python standard hashlib.new(). The hashes will be tried in the order given, so put the preferred one first for performance. The result of the first hash will be stored in the cache. This will typically be set to multiple values only while migrating from a less secure algorithm to a more secure one. Once all the old tokens are expired this option should be set to a single value for better performance. |
| integer value | Request timeout value for communicating with Identity API server. |
| integer value | How many times are we trying to reconnect when communicating with Identity API Server. |
| boolean value | (Optional) Indicate whether to set the X-Service-Catalog header. If False, middleware will not ask for service catalog on token validation and will not set the X-Service-Catalog header. |
| boolean value | Verify HTTPS connections. |
| string value | Required if identity server requires client certificate |
| integer value | (Optional) Number of seconds that an operation will wait to get a memcached client connection from the pool. |
| integer value | (Optional) Number of seconds memcached server is considered dead before it is tried again. |
| integer value | (Optional) Maximum total number of open connections to every memcached server. |
| integer value | (Optional) Socket timeout in seconds for communicating with a memcached server. |
| integer value | (Optional) Number of seconds a connection to memcached is held unused in the pool before it is closed. |
| string value | (Optional, mandatory if memcache_security_strategy is defined) This string is used for key derivation. |
| string value | (Optional) If defined, indicate whether token data should be authenticated or authenticated and encrypted. If MAC, token data is authenticated (with HMAC) in the cache. If ENCRYPT, token data is encrypted and authenticated in the cache. If the value is not one of these options or empty, auth_token will raise an exception on initialization. |
| boolean value | (Optional) Use the advanced (eventlet safe) memcached client pool. The advanced pool will only work under python 2.x. |
| list value | Optionally specify a list of memcached server(s) to use for caching. If left undefined, tokens will instead be cached in-process. |
| string value | The region in which the identity server can be found. |
| integer value | Determines the frequency at which the list of revoked tokens is retrieved from the Identity service (in seconds). A high number of revocation events combined with a low cache duration may significantly reduce performance. Only valid for PKI tokens. This option has been deprecated in the Ocata release and will be removed in the P release. |
| list value | A choice of roles that must be present in a service token. Service tokens are allowed to request that an expired token can be used and so this check should tightly control that only actual services should be sending this token. Roles here are applied as an ANY check so any role in this list must be present. For backwards compatibility reasons this currently only affects the allow_expired check. |
| boolean value | For backwards compatibility reasons we must let valid service tokens pass that don’t pass the service_token_roles check as valid. Setting this true will become the default in a future release and should be enabled if possible. |
| string value | Directory used to cache files related to PKI tokens. This option has been deprecated in the Ocata release and will be removed in the P release. |
| integer value | In order to prevent excessive effort spent validating tokens, the middleware caches previously-seen tokens for a configurable duration (in seconds). Set to -1 to disable caching completely. |
| string value | Complete "public" Identity API endpoint. This endpoint should not be an "admin" endpoint, as it should be accessible by all end users. Unauthenticated clients are redirected to this endpoint to authenticate. Although this endpoint should ideally be unversioned, client support in the wild varies. If you’re using a versioned v2 endpoint here, then this should not be the same endpoint the service user utilizes for validating tokens, because normal end users may not be able to reach that endpoint. |
10.7.6. matchmaker_redis
The following table outlines the options available under the [matchmaker_redis]
group in the /etc/neutron/neutron.conf
file.
Configuration option = Default value | Type | Description |
---|---|---|
| integer value | Time in ms to wait before the transaction is killed. |
| string value | Host to locate redis. |
`password = ` | string value | Password for Redis server (optional). |
| port value | Use this port to connect to redis host. |
| string value | Redis replica set name. |
| list value | List of Redis Sentinel hosts (fault tolerance mode), e.g., [host:port, host1:port … ] |
| integer value | Timeout in ms on blocking socket operations. |
| integer value | Time in ms to wait between connection attempts. |
10.7.7. nova
The following table outlines the options available under the [nova]
group in the /etc/neutron/neutron.conf
file.
Configuration option = Default value | Type | Description |
---|---|---|
| string value | Authentication URL |
| string value | Authentication type to load |
| string value | PEM encoded Certificate Authority to use when verifying HTTPs connections. |
| string value | PEM encoded client certificate cert file |
| string value | Optional domain ID to use with v3 and v2 parameters. It will be used for both the user and project domain in v3 and ignored in v2 authentication. |
| string value | Optional domain name to use with v3 API and v2 parameters. It will be used for both the user and project domain in v3 and ignored in v2 authentication. |
| string value | Domain ID to scope to |
| string value | Domain name to scope to |
| string value | Type of the nova endpoint to use. This endpoint will be looked up in the keystone catalog and should be one of public, internal or admin. |
| boolean value | Verify HTTPS connections. |
| string value | PEM encoded client certificate key file |
| string value | User’s password |
| string value | Domain ID containing project |
| string value | Domain name containing project |
| string value | Project ID to scope to |
| string value | Project name to scope to |
| string value | Name of nova region to use. Useful if keystone manages more than one region. |
| string value | Scope for system operations |
| string value | Tenant ID |
| string value | Tenant Name |
| integer value | Timeout value for http requests |
| string value | Trust ID |
| string value | User’s domain id |
| string value | User’s domain name |
| string value | User id |
| string value | Username |
10.7.8. oslo_concurrency
The following table outlines the options available under the [oslo_concurrency]
group in the /etc/neutron/neutron.conf
file.
Configuration option = Default value | Type | Description |
---|---|---|
| boolean value | Enables or disables inter-process locks. |
| string value | Directory to use for lock files. For security, the specified directory should only be writable by the user running the processes that need locking. Defaults to environment variable OSLO_LOCK_PATH. If external locks are used, a lock path must be set. |
10.7.9. oslo_messaging_amqp
The following table outlines the options available under the [oslo_messaging_amqp]
group in the /etc/neutron/neutron.conf
file.
Configuration option = Default value | Type | Description |
---|---|---|
| string value | Indicates the addressing mode used by the driver. Permitted values: legacy - use legacy non-routable addressing routable - use routable addresses dynamic - use legacy addresses if the message bus does not support routing otherwise use routable addressing |
| boolean value | Accept clients using either SSL or plain TCP |
| string value | Appended to the address prefix when sending to a group of consumers. Used by the message bus to identify messages that should be delivered in a round-robin fashion across consumers. |
| string value | address prefix used when broadcasting to all servers |
| integer value | Increase the connection_retry_interval by this many seconds after each unsuccessful failover attempt. |
| integer value | Seconds to pause before attempting to re-connect. |
| integer value | Maximum limit for connection_retry_interval + connection_retry_backoff |
| string value | Name for the AMQP container. must be globally unique. Defaults to a generated UUID |
| string value | Exchange name used in notification addresses. Exchange name resolution precedence: Target.exchange if set else default_notification_exchange if set else control_exchange if set else notify |
| integer value | The deadline for a sent notification message delivery. Only used when caller does not provide a timeout expiry. |
| integer value | The maximum number of attempts to re-send a reply message which failed due to a recoverable error. |
| integer value | The deadline for an rpc reply message delivery. |
| string value | Exchange name used in RPC addresses. Exchange name resolution precedence: Target.exchange if set else default_rpc_exchange if set else control_exchange if set else rpc |
| integer value | The deadline for an rpc cast or call message delivery. Only used when caller does not provide a timeout expiry. |
| integer value | The duration to schedule a purge of idle sender links. Detach link after expiry. |
| string value | address prefix when sending to any server in group |
| integer value | Timeout for inactive connections (in seconds) |
| integer value | Time to pause between re-connecting an AMQP 1.0 link that failed due to a recoverable error. |
| string value | Appended to the address prefix when sending a fanout message. Used by the message bus to identify fanout messages. |
| string value | Address prefix for all generated Notification addresses |
| integer value | Window size for incoming Notification messages |
`password = ` | string value | Password for message broker authentication |
| multi valued | Send messages of this type pre-settled. Pre-settled messages will not receive acknowledgement from the peer. Note well: pre-settled messages may be silently discarded if the delivery fails. Permitted values: rpc-call - send RPC Calls pre-settled rpc-reply- send RPC Replies pre-settled rpc-cast - Send RPC Casts pre-settled notify - Send Notifications pre-settled |
| boolean value | Enable virtual host support for those message buses that do not natively support virtual hosting (such as qpidd). When set to true the virtual host name will be added to all message bus addresses, effectively creating a private subnet per virtual host. Set to False if the message bus supports virtual hosting using the hostname field in the AMQP 1.0 Open performative as the name of the virtual host. |
| integer value | Window size for incoming RPC Reply messages. |
| string value | Address prefix for all generated RPC addresses |
| integer value | Window size for incoming RPC Request messages |
`sasl_config_dir = ` | string value | Path to directory that contains the SASL configuration |
`sasl_config_name = ` | string value | Name of configuration file (without .conf suffix) |
`sasl_default_realm = ` | string value | SASL realm to use if no realm present in username |
`sasl_mechanisms = ` | string value | Space separated list of acceptable SASL mechanisms |
| string value | address prefix used when sending to a specific server |
| boolean value | Attempt to connect via SSL. If no other ssl-related parameters are given, it will use the system’s CA-bundle to verify the server’s certificate. |
`ssl_ca_file = ` | string value | CA certificate PEM file used to verify the server’s certificate |
`ssl_cert_file = ` | string value | Self-identifying certificate PEM file for client authentication |
`ssl_key_file = ` | string value | Private key PEM file used to sign ssl_cert_file certificate (optional) |
| string value | Password for decrypting ssl_key_file (if encrypted) |
| boolean value | By default SSL checks that the name in the server’s certificate matches the hostname in the transport_url. In some configurations it may be preferable to use the virtual hostname instead, for example if the server uses the Server Name Indication TLS extension (rfc6066) to provide a certificate per virtual host. Set ssl_verify_vhost to True if the server’s SSL certificate uses the virtual host name instead of the DNS name. |
| boolean value | Debug: dump AMQP frames to stdout |
| string value | Appended to the address prefix when sending to a particular RPC/Notification server. Used by the message bus to identify messages sent to a single destination. |
`username = ` | string value | User name for message broker authentication |
10.7.10. oslo_messaging_kafka
The following table outlines the options available under the [oslo_messaging_kafka]
group in the /etc/neutron/neutron.conf
file.
Configuration option = Default value | Type | Description |
---|---|---|
| integer value | The pool size limit for connections expiration policy |
| integer value | The time-to-live in sec of idle connections in the pool |
| string value | Group id for Kafka consumer. Consumers in one group will coordinate message consumption |
| floating point value | Default timeout(s) for Kafka consumers |
| string value | Default Kafka broker Host |
| port value | Default Kafka broker Port |
| integer value | Max fetch bytes of Kafka consumer |
| integer value | Pool Size for Kafka Consumers |
| integer value | Size of batch for the producer async send |
| floating point value | Upper bound on the delay for KafkaProducer batching in seconds |
10.7.11. oslo_messaging_notifications
The following table outlines the options available under the [oslo_messaging_notifications]
group in the /etc/neutron/neutron.conf
file.
Configuration option = Default value | Type | Description |
---|---|---|
| multi valued | The Drivers(s) to handle sending notifications. Possible values are messaging, messagingv2, routing, log, test, noop |
| integer value | The maximum number of attempts to re-send a notification message which failed to be delivered due to a recoverable error. 0 - No retry, -1 - indefinite |
| list value | AMQP topic used for OpenStack notifications. |
| string value | A URL representing the messaging driver to use for notifications. If not set, we fall back to the same configuration used for RPC. |
10.7.12. oslo_messaging_rabbit
The following table outlines the options available under the [oslo_messaging_rabbit]
group in the /etc/neutron/neutron.conf
file.
Configuration option = Default value | Type | Description |
---|---|---|
| boolean value | Auto-delete queues in AMQP. |
| boolean value | Use durable queues in AMQP. |
| integer value | Maximum number of channels to allow |
| string value | Connection factory implementation |
| string value | Exchange name for sending notifications |
| integer value | Reconnecting retry count in case of connectivity problem during sending notification, -1 means infinite retry. |
| string value | Exchange name for sending RPC messages |
| integer value | Reconnecting retry count in case of connectivity problem during sending RPC message, -1 means infinite retry. If actual retry attempts in not 0 the rpc request could be processed more than one time |
| string value | Default serialization mechanism for serializing/deserializing outgoing/incoming messages |
| boolean value | Deprecated, use rpc_backend=kombu+memory or rpc_backend=fake |
| integer value | The maximum byte size for an AMQP frame |
| integer value | How often to send heartbeats for consumer’s connections |
| integer value | How often times during the heartbeat_timeout_threshold we check the heartbeat. |
| integer value | Number of seconds after which the Rabbit broker is considered down if heartbeat’s keep-alive fails (0 disable the heartbeat). EXPERIMENTAL |
| floating point value | Set delay for reconnection to some host which has connection error |
| string value | EXPERIMENTAL: Possible values are: gzip, bz2. If not set compression will not be used. This option may not be available in future versions. |
| string value | Determines how the next RabbitMQ node is chosen in case the one we are currently connected to becomes unavailable. Takes effect only if more than one RabbitMQ node is provided in config. |
| integer value | How long to wait a missing client before abandoning to send it its replies. This value should not be longer than rpc_response_timeout. |
| floating point value | How long to wait before reconnecting in response to an AMQP consumer cancel notification. |
| integer value | Max number of not acknowledged message which RabbitMQ can send to notification listener. |
| boolean value | Persist notification messages. |
| floating point value | Reconnecting retry delay in case of connectivity problem during sending notification message |
| integer value |
Maximum number of connections to create above |
| integer value | Maximum number of connections to keep queued. |
| integer value | Lifetime of a connection (since creation) in seconds or None for no recycling. Expired connections are closed on acquire. |
| integer value | Threshold at which inactive (since release) connections are considered stale in seconds or None for no staleness. Stale connections are closed on acquire. |
| integer value | Default number of seconds to wait for a connections to available |
| boolean value | Try to use HA queues in RabbitMQ (x-ha-policy: all). If you change this option, you must wipe the RabbitMQ database. In RabbitMQ 3.0, queue mirroring is no longer controlled by the x-ha-policy argument when declaring a queue. If you just want to make sure that all queues (except those with auto-generated names) are mirrored across all nodes, run: "rabbitmqctl set_policy HA ^(?!amq\.).* {"ha-mode": "all"} " |
| string value | The RabbitMQ broker address where a single node is used. |
| list value | RabbitMQ HA cluster host:port pairs. |
| integer value | Maximum interval of RabbitMQ connection retries. Default is 30 seconds. |
| string value | The RabbitMQ login method. |
| integer value | Maximum number of RabbitMQ connection retries. Default is 0 (infinite retry count). |
| string value | The RabbitMQ password. |
| port value | The RabbitMQ broker port where a single node is used. |
| integer value | Specifies the number of messages to prefetch. Setting to zero allows unlimited messages. |
| integer value | How long to backoff for between retries when connecting to RabbitMQ. |
| integer value | How frequently to retry connecting with RabbitMQ. |
| integer value | Positive integer representing duration in seconds for queue TTL (x-expires). Queues which are unused for the duration of the TTL are automatically deleted. The parameter affects only reply and fanout queues. |
| string value | The RabbitMQ userid. |
| string value | The RabbitMQ virtual host. |
| integer value | Max number of not acknowledged message which RabbitMQ can send to rpc listener. |
| integer value | Time to live for rpc queues without consumers in seconds. |
| string value | Exchange name for receiving RPC replies |
| integer value | Max number of not acknowledged message which RabbitMQ can send to rpc reply listener. |
| integer value | Reconnecting retry count in case of connectivity problem during sending reply. -1 means infinite retry during rpc_timeout |
| floating point value | Reconnecting retry delay in case of connectivity problem during sending reply. |
| floating point value | Reconnecting retry delay in case of connectivity problem during sending RPC message |
| floating point value | Set socket timeout in seconds for connection’s socket |
| boolean value | Enable SSL |
`ssl_ca_file = ` | string value | SSL certification authority file (valid only if SSL enabled). |
`ssl_cert_file = ` | string value | SSL cert file (valid only if SSL enabled). |
`ssl_key_file = ` | string value | SSL key file (valid only if SSL enabled). |
| dict value | Arguments passed to ssl.wrap_socket |
`ssl_version = ` | string value | SSL version to use (valid only if SSL enabled). Valid values are TLSv1 and SSLv23. SSLv2, SSLv3, TLSv1_1, and TLSv1_2 may be available on some distributions. |
| floating point value | Set TCP_USER_TIMEOUT in seconds for connection’s socket |
10.7.13. oslo_messaging_zmq
The following table outlines the options available under the [oslo_messaging_zmq]
group in the /etc/neutron/neutron.conf
file.
Configuration option = Default value | Type | Description |
---|---|---|
| integer value | Number of seconds to wait for an ack from a cast/call. After each retry attempt this timeout is multiplied by some specified multiplier. |
| integer value | Number to multiply base ack timeout by after each retry attempt. |
| integer value | Expiration timeout in seconds of a sent/received message after which it is not tracked anymore by a client/server. |
| integer value | The default number of seconds that poll should wait. Poll raises timeout exception when timeout expired. |
| integer value | Default number of message sending attempts in case of any problems occurred: positive value N means at most N retries, 0 means no retries, None or -1 (or any other negative values) mean to retry forever. This option is used only if acknowledgments are enabled. |
| integer value | Maximum number of (green) threads to work concurrently. |
| boolean value | Wait for message acknowledgements from receivers. This mechanism works only via proxy without PUB/SUB. |
| string value | ZeroMQ bind address. Should be a wildcard (*), an ethernet interface, or IP. The "host" option should point or resolve to this address. |
| integer value | Number of retries to find free port number before fail with ZMQBindError. |
| integer value | Number of ZeroMQ contexts, defaults to 1. |
| string value | Name of this node. Must be a valid hostname, FQDN, or IP address. Must match "host" option, if running Nova. |
| string value | Directory for holding IPC sockets. |
| string value | MatchMaker driver. |
| integer value | Maximal port number for random ports range. |
| port value | Minimal port number for random ports range. |
| string value | Default serialization mechanism for serializing/deserializing outgoing/incoming messages |
| integer value | Maximum number of ingress messages to locally buffer per topic. Default is unlimited. |
| list value | List of publisher hosts SubConsumer can subscribe on. This option has higher priority then the default publishers list taken from the matchmaker. |
| boolean value | This option makes direct connections dynamic or static. It makes sense only with use_router_proxy=False which means to use direct connections for direct message types (ignored otherwise). |
| boolean value | Use PUB/SUB pattern for fanout methods. PUB/SUB always uses proxy. |
| boolean value | Use ROUTER remote proxy. |
| integer value | How many additional connections to a host will be made for failover reasons. This option is actual only in dynamic connections mode. |
| boolean value | This option configures round-robin mode in zmq socket. True means not keeping a queue when server side disconnects. False means to keep queue and messages even if server is disconnected, when the server appears we send all accumulated messages to it. |
| integer value | Number of seconds to wait before all pending messages will be sent after closing a socket. The default value of -1 specifies an infinite linger period. The value of 0 specifies no linger period. Pending messages shall be discarded immediately when the socket is closed. Positive values specify an upper bound for the linger period. |
| integer value | Expiration timeout in seconds of a name service record about existing target ( < 0 means no timeout). |
| integer value | Update period in seconds of a name service record about existing target. |
| integer value | Enable/disable TCP keepalive (KA) mechanism. The default value of -1 (or any other negative value) means to skip any overrides and leave it to OS default; 0 and 1 (or any other positive value) mean to disable and enable the option respectively. |
| integer value | The number of retransmissions to be carried out before declaring that remote end is not available. The default value of -1 (or any other negative value and 0) means to skip any overrides and leave it to OS default. |
| integer value | The duration between two keepalive transmissions in idle condition. The unit is platform dependent, for example, seconds in Linux, milliseconds in Windows etc. The default value of -1 (or any other negative value and 0) means to skip any overrides and leave it to OS default. |
| integer value | The duration between two successive keepalive retransmissions, if acknowledgement to the previous keepalive transmission is not received. The unit is platform dependent, for example, seconds in Linux, milliseconds in Windows etc. The default value of -1 (or any other negative value and 0) means to skip any overrides and leave it to OS default. |
10.7.14. oslo_middleware
The following table outlines the options available under the [oslo_middleware]
group in the /etc/neutron/neutron.conf
file.
Configuration option = Default value | Type | Description |
---|---|---|
| boolean value | Whether the application is behind a proxy or not. This determines if the middleware should parse the headers or not. |
10.7.15. oslo_policy
The following table outlines the options available under the [oslo_policy]
group in the /etc/neutron/neutron.conf
file.
Configuration option = Default value | Type | Description |
---|---|---|
| boolean value |
This option controls whether or not to enforce scope when evaluating policies. If |
| string value | Default rule. Enforced when a requested rule is not found. |
| multi valued | Directories where policy configuration files are stored. They can be relative to any directory in the search path defined by the config_dir option, or absolute paths. The file defined by policy_file must exist for these directories to be searched. Missing or empty directories are ignored. |
| string value | The file that defines policies. |
| string value | Content Type to send and receive data for REST based policy check |
| string value | Absolute path to ca cert file for REST based policy check |
| string value | Absolute path to client cert for REST based policy check |
| string value | Absolute path client key file REST based policy check |
| boolean value | server identity verification for REST based policy check |
10.7.16. quotas
The following table outlines the options available under the [quotas]
group in the /etc/neutron/neutron.conf
file.
Configuration option = Default value | Type | Description |
---|---|---|
| integer value | Default number of resource allowed per tenant. A negative value means unlimited. |
| string value | Default driver to use for quota checks. |
| integer value | Number of floating IPs allowed per tenant. A negative value means unlimited. |
| integer value | Number of networks allowed per tenant. A negative value means unlimited. |
| integer value | Number of ports allowed per tenant. A negative value means unlimited. |
| integer value | Number of routers allowed per tenant. A negative value means unlimited. |
| integer value | Number of security groups allowed per tenant. A negative value means unlimited. |
| integer value | Number of security rules allowed per tenant. A negative value means unlimited. |
| integer value | Number of subnets allowed per tenant, A negative value means unlimited. |
| boolean value | Keep in track in the database of current resource quota usage. Plugins which do not leverage the neutron database should set this flag to False. |
10.7.17. ssl
The following table outlines the options available under the [ssl]
group in the /etc/neutron/neutron.conf
file.
Configuration option = Default value | Type | Description |
---|---|---|
| string value | CA certificate file to use to verify connecting clients. |
| string value | Certificate file to use when starting the server securely. |
| string value | Sets the list of available ciphers. value should be a string in the OpenSSL cipher list format. |
| string value | Private key file to use when starting the server securely. |
| string value | SSL version to use (valid only if SSL enabled). Valid values are TLSv1 and SSLv23. SSLv2, SSLv3, TLSv1_1, and TLSv1_2 may be available on some distributions. |
10.8. openvswitch_agent.ini
This section contains options for the /etc/neutron/plugins/ml2/openvswitch_agent.ini
file.
10.8.1. DEFAULT
The following table outlines the options available under the [DEFAULT]
group in the /etc/neutron/plugins/ml2/openvswitch_agent.ini
file.
Configuration option = Default value | Type | Description |
---|---|---|
| boolean value | If set to true, the logging level will be set to DEBUG instead of the default INFO level. |
| list value | List of package logging levels in logger=LEVEL pairs. This option is ignored if log_config_append is set. |
| boolean value | Enables or disables fatal status of deprecations. |
`instance_format = [instance: %(uuid)s] ` | string value | The format for an instance that is passed with the log message. |
`instance_uuid_format = [instance: %(uuid)s] ` | string value | The format for an instance UUID that is passed with the log message. |
| string value | The name of a logging configuration file. This file is appended to any existing logging configuration files. For details about logging configuration files, see the Python logging module documentation. Note that when logging configuration files are used then all logging configuration is set in the configuration file and other logging configuration options are ignored (for example, logging_context_format_string). |
| string value | Defines the format string for %%(asctime)s in log records. Default: %(default)s . This option is ignored if log_config_append is set. |
| string value | (Optional) The base directory used for relative log_file paths. This option is ignored if log_config_append is set. |
| string value | (Optional) Name of log file to send logging output to. If no default is set, logging will go to stderr as defined by use_stderr. This option is ignored if log_config_append is set. |
| string value | Format string to use for log messages with context. |
| string value | Additional data to append to log message when logging level for the message is DEBUG. |
| string value | Format string to use for log messages when context is undefined. |
| string value | Prefix each line of exception output with this format. |
| string value | Defines the format string for %(user_identity)s that is used in logging_context_format_string. |
| boolean value | Enables or disables publication of error events. |
| integer value | Maximum number of logged messages per rate_limit_interval. |
| string value | Log level name used by rate limiting: CRITICAL, ERROR, INFO, WARNING, DEBUG or empty string. Logs with level greater or equal to rate_limit_except_level are not filtered. An empty string means that all levels are filtered. |
| integer value | Interval, number of seconds, of log rate limiting. |
| string value | Syslog facility to receive log lines. This option is ignored if log_config_append is set. |
| boolean value | Enable journald for logging. If running in a systemd environment you may wish to enable journal support. Doing so will use the journal native protocol which includes structured metadata in addition to log messages.This option is ignored if log_config_append is set. |
| boolean value | Use JSON formatting for logging. This option is ignored if log_config_append is set. |
| boolean value | Use syslog for logging. Existing syslog format is DEPRECATED and will be changed later to honor RFC5424. This option is ignored if log_config_append is set. |
| boolean value | Log output to standard error. This option is ignored if log_config_append is set. |
| boolean value | Uses logging handler designed to watch file system. When log file is moved or removed this handler will open a new log file with specified path instantaneously. It makes sense only if log_file option is specified and Linux platform is used. This option is ignored if log_config_append is set. |
10.8.2. agent
The following table outlines the options available under the [agent]
group in the /etc/neutron/plugins/ml2/openvswitch_agent.ini
file.
Configuration option = Default value | Type | Description |
---|---|---|
| string value | Selects the Agent Type reported |
| boolean value | Enable local ARP responder if it is supported. Requires OVS 2.1 and ML2 l2population driver. Allows the switch (when supporting an overlay) to respond to an ARP request locally without performing a costly ARP broadcast into the overlay. |
| boolean value | Set or un-set the don’t fragment (DF) bit on outgoing IP packet carrying GRE/VXLAN tunnel. |
| boolean value | Reset flow table on start. Setting this to True will cause brief traffic interruption. |
| boolean value | Make the l2 agent run in DVR mode. |
| list value | Extensions list to use |
| boolean value | Use ML2 l2population mechanism driver to learn remote MAC and IPs and improve tunnel scalability. |
| boolean value | Minimize polling by monitoring ovsdb for interface changes. |
| integer value | The number of seconds to wait before respawning the ovsdb monitor after losing communication with it. |
| boolean value | Set or un-set the tunnel header checksum on outgoing IP packet carrying GRE/VXLAN tunnel. |
| list value | Network types supported by the agent (gre and/or vxlan). |
| integer value | MTU size of veth interfaces |
| port value | The UDP port to use for VXLAN tunnels. |
10.8.3. network_log
The following table outlines the options available under the [network_log]
group in the /etc/neutron/plugins/ml2/openvswitch_agent.ini
file.
Configuration option = Default value | Type | Description |
---|---|---|
| integer value | Maximum number of packets per rate_limit. |
| string value | Output logfile path on agent side, default syslog file. |
| integer value | Maximum packets logging per second. |
10.8.4. ovs
The following table outlines the options available under the [ovs]
group in the /etc/neutron/plugins/ml2/openvswitch_agent.ini
file.
Configuration option = Default value | Type | Description |
---|---|---|
| list value | Comma-separated list of <physical_network>:<bridge> tuples mapping physical network names to the agent’s node-specific Open vSwitch bridge names to be used for flat and VLAN networks. The length of bridge names should be no more than 11. Each bridge must exist, and should have a physical network interface configured as a port. All physical networks configured on the server should have mappings to appropriate bridges on each agent. Note: If you remove a bridge from this mapping, make sure to disconnect it from the integration bridge as it won’t be managed by the agent anymore. |
| string value | OVS datapath to use. system is the default value and corresponds to the kernel datapath. To enable the userspace datapath set this value to netdev. |
| string value | Peer patch port in integration bridge for tunnel bridge. |
| string value | Integration bridge to use. Do not change this parameter unless you have a good reason to. This is the name of the OVS integration bridge. There is one per hypervisor. The integration bridge acts as a virtual patch bay. All VM VIFs are attached to this bridge and then patched according to their network connectivity. |
| IP address value | IP address of local overlay (tunnel) network endpoint. Use either an IPv4 or IPv6 address that resides on one of the host network interfaces. The IP version of this value must match the value of the overlay_ip_version option in the ML2 plug-in configuration file on the neutron server node(s). |
| integer value | Timeout in seconds to wait for the local switch connecting the controller. Used only for native driver. |
| string value | OpenFlow interface to use. |
| IP address value | Address to listen on for OpenFlow connections. Used only for native driver. |
| port value | Port to listen on for OpenFlow connections. Used only for native driver. |
| integer value | Timeout in seconds to wait for a single OpenFlow request. Used only for native driver. |
| string value | The connection string for the OVSDB backend. Will be used by ovsdb-client when monitoring and used for the all ovsdb commands when native ovsdb_interface is enabled |
| string value | The interface for interacting with the OVSDB |
| string value | The Certificate Authority (CA) certificate to use when interacting with OVSDB. Required when using an "ssl:" prefixed ovsdb_connection |
| string value | The SSL certificate file to use when interacting with OVSDB. Required when using an "ssl:" prefixed ovsdb_connection |
| string value | The SSL private key file to use when interacting with OVSDB. Required when using an "ssl:" prefixed ovsdb_connection |
| string value | Peer patch port in tunnel bridge for integration bridge. |
| string value | Tunnel bridge to use. |
| boolean value | Use veths instead of patch ports to interconnect the integration bridge to physical networks. Support kernel without Open vSwitch patch port support so long as it is set to True. |
| string value | OVS vhost-user socket directory. |
10.8.5. securitygroup
The following table outlines the options available under the [securitygroup]
group in the /etc/neutron/plugins/ml2/openvswitch_agent.ini
file.
Configuration option = Default value | Type | Description |
---|---|---|
| boolean value | Use ipset to speed-up the iptables based security groups. Enabling ipset support requires that ipset is installed on L2 agent node. |
| boolean value | Controls whether the neutron security group API is enabled in the server. It should be false when using no security groups or using the nova security group API. |
| string value | Driver for security groups firewall in the L2 agent |
10.8.6. xenapi
The following table outlines the options available under the [xenapi]
group in the /etc/neutron/plugins/ml2/openvswitch_agent.ini
file.
Configuration option = Default value | Type | Description |
---|---|---|
| string value | Password for connection to XenServer/Xen Cloud Platform. |
| string value | URL for connection to XenServer/Xen Cloud Platform. |
| string value | Username for connection to XenServer/Xen Cloud Platform. |
10.9. sriov_agent.ini
This section contains options for the /etc/neutron/plugins/ml2/sriov_agent.ini
file.
10.9.1. DEFAULT
The following table outlines the options available under the [DEFAULT]
group in the /etc/neutron/plugins/ml2/sriov_agent.ini
file.
Configuration option = Default value | Type | Description |
---|---|---|
| boolean value | If set to true, the logging level will be set to DEBUG instead of the default INFO level. |
| list value | List of package logging levels in logger=LEVEL pairs. This option is ignored if log_config_append is set. |
| boolean value | Enables or disables fatal status of deprecations. |
`instance_format = [instance: %(uuid)s] ` | string value | The format for an instance that is passed with the log message. |
`instance_uuid_format = [instance: %(uuid)s] ` | string value | The format for an instance UUID that is passed with the log message. |
| string value | The name of a logging configuration file. This file is appended to any existing logging configuration files. For details about logging configuration files, see the Python logging module documentation. Note that when logging configuration files are used then all logging configuration is set in the configuration file and other logging configuration options are ignored (for example, logging_context_format_string). |
| string value | Defines the format string for %%(asctime)s in log records. Default: %(default)s . This option is ignored if log_config_append is set. |
| string value | (Optional) The base directory used for relative log_file paths. This option is ignored if log_config_append is set. |
| string value | (Optional) Name of log file to send logging output to. If no default is set, logging will go to stderr as defined by use_stderr. This option is ignored if log_config_append is set. |
| string value | Format string to use for log messages with context. |
| string value | Additional data to append to log message when logging level for the message is DEBUG. |
| string value | Format string to use for log messages when context is undefined. |
| string value | Prefix each line of exception output with this format. |
| string value | Defines the format string for %(user_identity)s that is used in logging_context_format_string. |
| boolean value | Enables or disables publication of error events. |
| integer value | Maximum number of logged messages per rate_limit_interval. |
| string value | Log level name used by rate limiting: CRITICAL, ERROR, INFO, WARNING, DEBUG or empty string. Logs with level greater or equal to rate_limit_except_level are not filtered. An empty string means that all levels are filtered. |
| integer value | Interval, number of seconds, of log rate limiting. |
| string value | Syslog facility to receive log lines. This option is ignored if log_config_append is set. |
| boolean value | Enable journald for logging. If running in a systemd environment you may wish to enable journal support. Doing so will use the journal native protocol which includes structured metadata in addition to log messages.This option is ignored if log_config_append is set. |
| boolean value | Use JSON formatting for logging. This option is ignored if log_config_append is set. |
| boolean value | Use syslog for logging. Existing syslog format is DEPRECATED and will be changed later to honor RFC5424. This option is ignored if log_config_append is set. |
| boolean value | Log output to standard error. This option is ignored if log_config_append is set. |
| boolean value | Uses logging handler designed to watch file system. When log file is moved or removed this handler will open a new log file with specified path instantaneously. It makes sense only if log_file option is specified and Linux platform is used. This option is ignored if log_config_append is set. |
10.9.2. agent
The following table outlines the options available under the [agent]
group in the /etc/neutron/plugins/ml2/sriov_agent.ini
file.
Configuration option = Default value | Type | Description |
---|---|---|
| list value | Extensions list to use |
10.9.3. sriov_nic
The following table outlines the options available under the [sriov_nic]
group in the /etc/neutron/plugins/ml2/sriov_agent.ini
file.
Configuration option = Default value | Type | Description |
---|---|---|
| list value | Comma-separated list of <network_device>:<vfs_to_exclude> tuples, mapping network_device to the agent’s node-specific list of virtual functions that should not be used for virtual networking. vfs_to_exclude is a semicolon-separated list of virtual functions to exclude from network_device. The network_device in the mapping should appear in the physical_device_mappings list. |
| list value | Comma-separated list of <physical_network>:<network_device> tuples mapping physical network names to the agent’s node-specific physical network device interfaces of SR-IOV physical function to be used for VLAN networks. All physical networks listed in network_vlan_ranges on the server should have mappings to appropriate interfaces on each agent. |