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5 Administering OpenFlow

Additional fields and filters added in OpenFlow version 1.3 increases the available show commands.

Monitoring OpenFlow

OpenFlow can be monitored at several levels and the rate at which the information from the

hardware is refreshed can be configured.

Displaying OpenFlow information

Displays the versions of OpenFlow instance with status and flow data.

Syntax

show openflow

Example

HP-Switch# show openflow

OpenFlow : Disabled

IP Control Table Mode : Enabled

Instance Information

No. of No. of OpenFlow

Instance Name Status H/W Flows S/W Flows Version

------------------- --------- ---------- --------- ---------

titan Down 0 0 1.0

marez Up 0 0 1.3 only

Setting OpenFlow statistics refresh rate

Choose the maximum time before hardware statistics are refreshed.

Syntax

openflow hardware-statistics refresh-rate secs

secs

The hardware statistics refresh‐rate for OpenFlow.

Default: 20 secondsRange: 0— 3600 seconds

NOTE: With value of 0, the hardware is no longer polled to update the

statistics.

Viewing OpenFlow information

You can display OpenFlow information for all instances, ports, and flows. The returned information

includes the OpenFlow version supported.

Syntax

show openflow [ resources | controllers | instance instance-name [[

port-statistics ] | flows [ flow-filters auxiliary-connections] ] ]

Show OpenFlow information.

resources

Shows OpenFlow resource utilization. See “Viewing OpenFlow resources”

(page 40).

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