HP VAN SDN Controller Software Products manual Contents

Contents
1 Introduction...............................................................................................	8
1.1 Supported switches and OpenFlow compatibility ....................................................................	9
1.1.1 OpenFlow requirements.................................................................................................	9
1.1.2 IPv6 traffic...................................................................................................................	9
2 Understanding the embedded applications..................................................	10
2.1 Link manager....................................................................................................................	10
2.2 Node manager................................................................................................................	10
2.3 Path daemon....................................................................................................................	10
2.4 Path diagnostics................................................................................................................	12
2.5 Topology manager............................................................................................................	13
2.6 Topology viewer...............................................................................................................	13
3 Navigating the controller user interface.......................................................	14
3.1 Starting the SDN controller console UI.................................................................................	14
3.2 About the user interface.....................................................................................................	14
3.2.1 Banner.....................................................................................................................	15
3.2.2 Changing column widths............................................................................................	16
3.2.3 Changing the background and text colors....................................................................	16
3.3 Navigation menu..............................................................................................................	16
3.3.1 About the navigation menu.........................................................................................	16
3.3.2 Navigation menu screen details..................................................................................	16
3.3.3 Expanding or collapsing the navigation menu...............................................................	17
3.4 SDN User window............................................................................................................	17
3.4.1 User window screen details.........................................................................................	18
3.4.2 Expanding the SDN user window...............................................................................	18
3.4.3 Collapsing the SDN user window................................................................................	19
3.4.4 Logging out of the controller.......................................................................................	19
3.5 Alerts screen....................................................................................................................	19
3.5.1 About alerts..............................................................................................................	19
3.5.2 About alert policies...................................................................................................	19
3.5.3 Alert notification counter............................................................................................	20
3.5.4 Alerts screen details...................................................................................................	20
3.5.5 Viewing the ten most sever recent active alerts ..............................................................	21
3.5.6 Acknowledging an alert.............................................................................................	21
3.5.7 Deleting an alert.......................................................................................................	21
3.5.8 Configuring the alert policies......................................................................................	21
3.6 Applications screen...........................................................................................................	22
3.6.1 About the application manager...................................................................................	22
3.6.2 Applications screen details.........................................................................................	22
3.6.3 Obtaining applications from the HP SDN AppStore.......................................................	23
3.6.4 Adding or upgrading an application...........................................................................	23
3.6.5 Disabling (stopping) or enabling (starting) an application...............................................	24
3.6.6 Uninstalling an application.........................................................................................	25
3.7 Configurations screen........................................................................................................	25
3.7.1 About the configurable components..............................................................................	25
3.7.1.1 About component keys.........................................................................................	26
3.7.2 Summary of configurable controller components............................................................	26
3.7.2.1 AdminREST Component.......................................................................................	26
3.7.2.2 Alert manager...................................................................................................	26
3.7.2.3 Alert post manager............................................................................................	27
3.7.2.4 Audit log manager.............................................................................................	27

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