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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)

Automating legacy devices

Automating the attachment of different network devices to the SDN network requires a predefined specification for each device in OpenDaylight. The Device Identification and Driver Management (DIDM) project in OpenDaylight addresses the need to provide device-specific functionality. For each device in the SDN network there is a driver that contains the basic specification. The DIDM provides the ability to define the following functions in each device driver:

  • Discovery: Discover if the device exists in the OpenDaylight management domain
  • Identification: Identify the device type
  • Driver registration: Register the device driver to the OpenDaylight management domain
  • Synchronization: Collect device information and configuration
  • Features data model: Data model should be defined for device features
  • RPC for features: Remote procedures calls should be defined to...