Bridge Interface shown down in Horizon Dashboard @ Openstack

sudo ovs-vsctl br-get-external-id br-ex returns nothing, and so br-ex is excluded from the list of ancillary bridges and so the gateway port always shows as DOWN.
A workaround is to set the bridge-id to br-ex and restart the L2 agent:

ovs-vsctl br-set-external-id br-ex bridge-id br-ex
ovs-vsctl br-set-external-id br-ex-2 bridge-id br-ex-2

Openstack Icehouse Part 6 : Testing the Setup + Horizon

Creating the Key

$ ssh-keygen

Add the public key to your OpenStack environment:
$ nova keypair-add --pub-key ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub demo-key

Verify addition of the public key:
$ nova keypair-list
+----------+-------------------------------------------------+
| Name | Fingerprint |
+----------+-------------------------------------------------+
| demo-key | 6c:74:ec:3a:08:05:4e:9e:21:22:a6:dd:b2:62:b8:28 |
+----------+-------------------------------------------------+

nova image-list
+--------------------------------------+---------------------+--------+--------+
| ID | Name | Status | Server |
+--------------------------------------+---------------------+--------+--------+
| acafc7c0-40aa-4026-9673-b879898e1fc2 | cirros-0.3.2-x86_64 | ACTIVE | |
+--------------------------------------+---------------------+--------+--------+
Your first instance uses the cirros-0.3.2-x86_64 image.

List available networks:

$ neutron net-list
+--------------------------------------+----------+-------------------------------------------------------+
| id | name | subnets |
+--------------------------------------+----------+-------------------------------------------------------+
| 3c612b5a-d1db-498a-babb-a4c50e344cb1 | demo-net | 20bcd3fd-5785-41fe-ac42-55ff884e3180 192.168.1.0/24 |
| 9bce64a3-a963-4c05-bfcd-161f708042d1 | ext-net | b54a8d85-b434-4e85-a8aa-74873841a90d 203.0.113.0/24 |
+--------------------------------------+----------+-------------------------------------------------------+
Your first instance uses the demo-net tenant network. However, you must reference this network using the ID instead of the name.

List available security groups:

$ nova secgroup-list
+--------------------------------------+---------+-------------+
| Id | Name | Description |
+--------------------------------------+---------+-------------+
| ad8d4ea5-3cad-4f7d-b164-ada67ec59473 | default | default |
+--------------------------------------+---------+-------------+

Creating a New flavor

nova boot --flavor m1.tiny --image cirros-0.3.2-x86_64 --nic net-id=8cc217b0-96a6-4e98-a901-a694ebff173f --security-group default --key-name demo-key demo-instance1

Creating the instance from back end

nova boot --poll --flavor m1.tiny --image cirros-0.3.2-x86_64 --nic net-id=69c6ca95-2f5d-4173-8973-164c5129cb27 --security-group default --key-name Chumma demo-instance

 

Install Horizone on Controller Node

yum install memcached python-memcached mod_wsgi openstack-dashboard

Edit /etc/openstack-dashboard/local_settings:

ALLOWED_HOSTS = ['localhost', 'my-desktop']
service httpd start
service memcached start
chkconfig httpd on
chkconfig memcached on