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charset=\"us-ascii\"","Content-Transfer-Encoding":"7bit","Errors-To":"ovs-dev-bounces@openvswitch.org","Sender":"\"dev\" "},"content":"The \"event\" option on Load_Balancer.options was supported in code\n(set via \"ovn-nbctl lb-add --event\") but not documented in\novn-nb.xml. Add documentation describing its behavior: when true\nand the load balancer has no active backends, incoming traffic\ntriggers a controller event in the SB Controller_Event table.\n\nAssisted-by: Claude Code (Claude Opus 4.6)\nSigned-off-by: Mark Michelson \n---\n ovn-nb.xml | 9 +++++++++\n 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)","diff":"diff --git a/ovn-nb.xml b/ovn-nb.xml\nindex 7324e8656..e1061b6d3 100644\n--- a/ovn-nb.xml\n+++ b/ovn-nb.xml\n@@ -2770,6 +2770,15 @@ or\n router.\n \n \n+ \n+ If set to true and the load balancer has no active\n+ backends, whenever the load balancer receives traffic, the event\n+ is reported in the table in the OVN Southbound database.\n+ The event option cannot be used together with the\n+ reject option.\n+ \n+\n \n \n \n","prefixes":["ovs-dev","2/5"]}