Owner's Manual

Resources

The following section describes the resources used by the software and their categories.

Resource Category Description

Tenant Virtual managed object Any client of the software’s

services. A tenant is associated

with a unique ID during

configuration. A set of resources

(such as networks, hosts,

endpoints, network connections,

or policies) is associated with

each tenant.

Provider Virtual managed object A client that acts as an

administrator for the network

infrastructure and its tenants.

Network Virtual managed object Virtual network (also known as a

logical switch or L2 domain) that

is managed by the software.

Host Virtual managed object A server or VM consisting of one

or more endpoints that connect

to different networks.

Endpoint Virtual managed object Point of attachment (with a

unique ID, such as a MAC address

or IP address) to the network

managed by the software.

Policy Virtual managed object One or more rules that define the

operations of a tenant, switch,

link, network, host, or network

connection.

Rule Virtual managed object Consists of two components:

match and action. The match

component contains the flow

attributes and the action

component defines the switch’s

behavior.

System System Deployed software components

and the running environment.

The components in the system

are the SDNC cluster, OFC

cluster, and DB cluster.

SDNC cluster System A cluster of SDN controller nodes

and any cluster-level attributes.

Can be one or two nodes.

REST APIs