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Tracing packets in the Linux networking stack & friends
https://retis.readthedocs.io/en/stable/
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OVS module makes the tool to fail if the OVS daemon isn't installed #71

Closed atenart closed 1 year ago

atenart commented 1 year ago

If the tool is started on an environment where there is no OVS daemon, it will report an error and always fail. We should let the tool to continue working for those kind of issues, otherwise the default --collectors option won't often be working.

At the same time not failing when we do expect OVS events would not be good. A solution might be to add another cli option to decide whether or not those kind of issues are acceptable. This option could be used in profiles to make the user experience OK. But there might be other solutions.