Administrator's Guide

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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