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OpenDaylight Cookbook

By : Rashmi Pujar, ICARO CAMELO, Yrineu Rodrigues
Book Image

OpenDaylight Cookbook

By: Rashmi Pujar, ICARO CAMELO, Yrineu Rodrigues

Overview of this book

OpenDaylight is an open source platform to program and build Software-Defined Networks (SDN). Its aim is to accelerate the adoption of SDN and NFV. With above 90 practical recipes, this book will help you to solve day-to-day problems and maintenance tasks surrounding OpenDaylight’s implementation. This book starts with the OpenDaylight fundamentals. In this book, you will gain a sound understanding of the methods and techniques when deploying OpenDaylight in production environment. Later on, you will learn to create a Service Chain using SFC. This book will address common problems and day-to-day maintenance tasks with OpenDaylight. We’ll also will teach you how to interact with OpenDaylight APIs and use the necessary tools to simulate networks. You will also explore how to create your own branded OpenDaylight along with authorising and authenticating users using OpenDaylight Identity Manager. By the end of this book, you will have the necessary skills to operate an OpenDaylight SDN environment.
Table of Contents (9 chapters)

Managing an Ethernet switch in an SDN Environment

OpenDaylight uses the SNMP4SDN plugin to manage Ethernet switches in the SDN Environments. The SNMP4SDN plugin will let you configure the forwarding tables and ACL of the Ethernet switches by using the SNMP plugin.

Getting ready

This recipe requires an OpenDaylight Beryllium distribution and you will need to download the recipe folder from this book's GitHub repository. In this recipe, you will learn how OpenDaylight can be used to install flow configurations in Ethernet switches and to manage different Ethernet switches provided by different vendors.

How to do it...

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