port

port

A port is a connection point for attaching a single device, such as the NIC of a server, to a network. The port also describes the associated network configuration, such as the MAC and IP addresses to be used on that port.

Network v2

port create

Create a new port

openstack port create
    [--extra-property type=<property_type>,name=<property_name>,value=<property_value>]
    --network <network>
    [--description <description>]
    [--device <device-id>]
    [--mac-address <mac-address>]
    [--device-owner <device-owner>]
    [--vnic-type <vnic-type>]
    [--host <host-id>]
    [--dns-domain dns-domain]
    [--dns-name <dns-name>]
    [--numa-policy-required | --numa-policy-preferred | --numa-policy-legacy]
    [--fixed-ip subnet=<subnet>,ip-address=<ip-address> | --no-fixed-ip]
    [--binding-profile <binding-profile>]
    [--enable | --disable]
    [--enable-uplink-status-propagation | --disable-uplink-status-propagation]
    [--project <project>]
    [--project-domain <project-domain>]
    [--extra-dhcp-option name=<name>[,value=<value>,ip-version={4,6}]]
    [--security-group <security-group> | --no-security-group]
    [--qos-policy <qos-policy>]
    [--enable-port-security | --disable-port-security]
    [--allowed-address ip-address=<ip-address>[,mac-address=<mac-address>]]
    [--device-profile <device-profile>]
    [--tag <tag> | --no-tag]
    <name>
--extra-property type=<property_type>,name=<property_name>,value=<property_value>

Additional parameters can be passed using this property. Default type of the extra property is string (‘str’), but other types can be used as well. Available types are: ‘dict’, ‘list’, ‘str’, ‘bool’, ‘int’. In case of ‘list’ type, ‘value’ can be semicolon-separated list of values. For ‘dict’ value is semicolon-separated list of the key:value pairs.

--network <network>

Network this port belongs to (name or ID)

--description <description>

Description of this port

--device <device-id>

Port device ID

--mac-address <mac-address>

MAC address of this port (admin only)

--device-owner <device-owner>

Device owner of this port. This is the entity that uses the port (for example, network:dhcp).

--vnic-type <vnic-type>

VNIC type for this port (direct | direct-physical | macvtap | normal | baremetal | virtio-forwarder | vdpa | remote-managed, default: normal)

--host <host-id>

Allocate port on host <host-id> (ID only)

--dns-domain dns-domain

Set DNS domain to this port (requires dns_domain extension for ports)

--dns-name <dns-name>

Set DNS name for this port (requires DNS integration extension)

--numa-policy-required

NUMA affinity policy required to schedule this port

--numa-policy-preferred

NUMA affinity policy preferred to schedule this port

--numa-policy-legacy

NUMA affinity policy using legacy mode to schedule this port

--fixed-ip subnet=<subnet>,ip-address=<ip-address>

Desired IP and/or subnet for this port (name or ID): subnet=<subnet>,ip-address=<ip-address> (repeat option to set multiple fixed IP addresses)

--no-fixed-ip

No IP or subnet for this port.

--binding-profile <binding-profile>

Custom data to be passed as binding:profile. Data may be passed as <key>=<value> or JSON. (repeat option to set multiple binding:profile data)

--enable

Enable port (default)

--disable

Disable port

Enable uplink status propagate

Disable uplink status propagate (default)

--project <project>

Owner’s project (name or ID)

--project-domain <project-domain>

Domain the project belongs to (name or ID). This can be used in case collisions between project names exist.

--extra-dhcp-option name=<name>[,value=<value>,ip-version={4,6}]

Extra DHCP options to be assigned to this port: name=<name>[,value=<value>,ip-version={4,6}] (repeat option to set multiple extra DHCP options)

--security-group <security-group>

Security group to associate with this port (name or ID) (repeat option to set multiple security groups)

--no-security-group

Associate no security groups with this port

--qos-policy <qos-policy>

Attach QoS policy to this port (name or ID)

--enable-port-security

Enable port security for this port (Default)

--disable-port-security

Disable port security for this port

--allowed-address ip-address=<ip-address>[,mac-address=<mac-address>]

Add allowed-address pair associated with this port: ip-address=<ip-address>[,mac-address=<mac-address>] (repeat option to set multiple allowed-address pairs)

--device-profile <device-profile>

Cyborg port device profile

--tag <tag>

Tag to be added to the port (repeat option to set multiple tags)

--no-tag

No tags associated with the port

name

Name of this port

port delete

Delete port(s)

openstack port delete <port> [<port> ...]
port

Port(s) to delete (name or ID)

port list

List ports

openstack port list
    [--format-config-file FORMAT_CONFIG]
    [--sort-column SORT_COLUMN]
    [--sort-ascending | --sort-descending]
    [--device-owner <device-owner>]
    [--host <host-id>]
    [--network <network>]
    [--router <router> | --server <server> | --device-id <device-id>]
    [--mac-address <mac-address>]
    [--long]
    [--project <project>]
    [--name <name>]
    [--security-group <security-group>]
    [--project-domain <project-domain>]
    [--fixed-ip subnet=<subnet>,ip-address=<ip-address>,ip-substring=<ip-substring>]
    [--tags <tag>[,<tag>,...]]
    [--any-tags <tag>[,<tag>,...]]
    [--not-tags <tag>[,<tag>,...]]
    [--not-any-tags <tag>[,<tag>,...]]
--format-config-file <FORMAT_CONFIG>

Config file for the dict-to-csv formatter

--sort-column SORT_COLUMN

specify the column(s) to sort the data (columns specified first have a priority, non-existing columns are ignored), can be repeated

--sort-ascending

sort the column(s) in ascending order

--sort-descending

sort the column(s) in descending order

--device-owner <device-owner>

List only ports with the specified device owner. This is the entity that uses the port (for example, network:dhcp).

--host <host-id>

List only ports bound to this host ID

--network <network>

List only ports connected to this network (name or ID)

--router <router>

List only ports attached to this router (name or ID)

--server <server>

List only ports attached to this server (name or ID)

--device-id <device-id>

List only ports with the specified device ID

--mac-address <mac-address>

List only ports with this MAC address

--long

List additional fields in output

--project <project>

List ports according to their project (name or ID)

--name <name>

List ports according to their name

--security-group <security-group>

List only ports associated with this security group

--project-domain <project-domain>

Domain the project belongs to (name or ID). This can be used in case collisions between project names exist.

--fixed-ip subnet=<subnet>,ip-address=<ip-address>,ip-substring=<ip-substring>

Desired IP and/or subnet for filtering ports (name or ID): subnet=<subnet>,ip-address=<ip-address>,ip-substring=<ip-substring> (repeat option to set multiple fixed IP addresses)

--tags <tag>[,<tag>,...]

List ports which have all given tag(s) (Comma-separated list of tags)

--any-tags <tag>[,<tag>,...]

List ports which have any given tag(s) (Comma-separated list of tags)

--not-tags <tag>[,<tag>,...]

Exclude ports which have all given tag(s) (Comma-separated list of tags)

--not-any-tags <tag>[,<tag>,...]

Exclude ports which have any given tag(s) (Comma-separated list of tags)

port set

Set port properties

openstack port set
    [--extra-property type=<property_type>,name=<property_name>,value=<property_value>]
    [--description <description>]
    [--device <device-id>]
    [--mac-address <mac-address>]
    [--device-owner <device-owner>]
    [--vnic-type <vnic-type>]
    [--host <host-id>]
    [--dns-domain dns-domain]
    [--dns-name <dns-name>]
    [--numa-policy-required | --numa-policy-preferred | --numa-policy-legacy]
    [--enable | --disable]
    [--name <name>]
    [--fixed-ip subnet=<subnet>,ip-address=<ip-address>]
    [--no-fixed-ip]
    [--binding-profile <binding-profile>]
    [--no-binding-profile]
    [--qos-policy <qos-policy>]
    [--security-group <security-group>]
    [--no-security-group]
    [--enable-port-security | --disable-port-security]
    [--allowed-address ip-address=<ip-address>[,mac-address=<mac-address>]]
    [--no-allowed-address]
    [--extra-dhcp-option name=<name>[,value=<value>,ip-version={4,6}]]
    [--data-plane-status <status>]
    [--tag <tag>]
    [--no-tag]
    <port>
--extra-property type=<property_type>,name=<property_name>,value=<property_value>

Additional parameters can be passed using this property. Default type of the extra property is string (‘str’), but other types can be used as well. Available types are: ‘dict’, ‘list’, ‘str’, ‘bool’, ‘int’. In case of ‘list’ type, ‘value’ can be semicolon-separated list of values. For ‘dict’ value is semicolon-separated list of the key:value pairs.

--description <description>

Description of this port

--device <device-id>

Port device ID

--mac-address <mac-address>

MAC address of this port (admin only)

--device-owner <device-owner>

Device owner of this port. This is the entity that uses the port (for example, network:dhcp).

--vnic-type <vnic-type>

VNIC type for this port (direct | direct-physical | macvtap | normal | baremetal | virtio-forwarder | vdpa | remote-managed, default: normal)

--host <host-id>

Allocate port on host <host-id> (ID only)

--dns-domain dns-domain

Set DNS domain to this port (requires dns_domain extension for ports)

--dns-name <dns-name>

Set DNS name for this port (requires DNS integration extension)

--numa-policy-required

NUMA affinity policy required to schedule this port

--numa-policy-preferred

NUMA affinity policy preferred to schedule this port

--numa-policy-legacy

NUMA affinity policy using legacy mode to schedule this port

--enable

Enable port

--disable

Disable port

--name <name>

Set port name

--fixed-ip subnet=<subnet>,ip-address=<ip-address>

Desired IP and/or subnet for this port (name or ID): subnet=<subnet>,ip-address=<ip-address> (repeat option to set multiple fixed IP addresses)

--no-fixed-ip

Clear existing information of fixed IP addresses.Specify both –fixed-ip and –no-fixed-ip to overwrite the current fixed IP addresses.

--binding-profile <binding-profile>

Custom data to be passed as binding:profile. Data may be passed as <key>=<value> or JSON. (repeat option to set multiple binding:profile data)

--no-binding-profile

Clear existing information of binding:profile. Specify both –binding-profile and –no-binding-profile to overwrite the current binding:profile information.

--qos-policy <qos-policy>

Attach QoS policy to this port (name or ID)

--security-group <security-group>

Security group to associate with this port (name or ID) (repeat option to set multiple security groups)

--no-security-group

Clear existing security groups associated with this port

--enable-port-security

Enable port security for this port

--disable-port-security

Disable port security for this port

--allowed-address ip-address=<ip-address>[,mac-address=<mac-address>]

Add allowed-address pair associated with this port: ip-address=<ip-address>[,mac-address=<mac-address>] (repeat option to set multiple allowed-address pairs)

--no-allowed-address

Clear existing allowed-address pairs associated with this port. (Specify both –allowed-address and –no-allowed-address to overwrite the current allowed-address pairs)

--extra-dhcp-option name=<name>[,value=<value>,ip-version={4,6}]

Extra DHCP options to be assigned to this port: name=<name>[,value=<value>,ip-version={4,6}] (repeat option to set multiple extra DHCP options)

--data-plane-status <status>

Set data plane status of this port (ACTIVE | DOWN). Unset it to None with the ‘port unset’ command (requires data plane status extension)

--tag <tag>

Tag to be added to the port (repeat option to set multiple tags)

--no-tag

Clear tags associated with the port. Specify both –tag and –no-tag to overwrite current tags

port

Port to modify (name or ID)

port show

Display port details

openstack port show <port>
port

Port to display (name or ID)

port unset

Unset port properties

openstack port unset
    [--extra-property type=<property_type>,name=<property_name>,value=<property_value>]
    [--fixed-ip subnet=<subnet>,ip-address=<ip-address>]
    [--binding-profile <binding-profile-key>]
    [--security-group <security-group>]
    [--allowed-address ip-address=<ip-address>[,mac-address=<mac-address>]]
    [--qos-policy]
    [--data-plane-status]
    [--numa-policy]
    [--host]
    [--tag <tag> | --all-tag]
    <port>
--extra-property type=<property_type>,name=<property_name>,value=<property_value>

Additional parameters can be passed using this property. Default type of the extra property is string (‘str’), but other types can be used as well. Available types are: ‘dict’, ‘list’, ‘str’, ‘bool’, ‘int’. In case of ‘list’ type, ‘value’ can be semicolon-separated list of values. For ‘dict’ value is semicolon-separated list of the key:value pairs.

--fixed-ip subnet=<subnet>,ip-address=<ip-address>

Desired IP and/or subnet which should be removed from this port (name or ID): subnet=<subnet>,ip-address=<ip-address> (repeat option to unset multiple fixed IP addresses)

--binding-profile <binding-profile-key>

Desired key which should be removed from binding:profile (repeat option to unset multiple binding:profile data)

--security-group <security-group>

Security group which should be removed this port (name or ID) (repeat option to unset multiple security groups)

--allowed-address ip-address=<ip-address>[,mac-address=<mac-address>]

Desired allowed-address pair which should be removed from this port: ip-address=<ip-address>[,mac-address=<mac-address>] (repeat option to unset multiple allowed-address pairs)

--qos-policy

Remove the QoS policy attached to the port

--data-plane-status

Clear existing information of data plane status

--numa-policy

Clear existing NUMA affinity policy

--host

Clear host binding for the port.

--tag <tag>

Tag to be removed from the port (repeat option to remove multiple tags)

--all-tag

Clear all tags associated with the port

port

Port to modify (name or ID)

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