Administrator's Guide

3.13.6 Filtering the OpenFlow trace log in a CSV file..............................................................47
3.13.7 Changing the OpenFlow trace interval .......................................................................48
3.14 OpenFlow classes display.................................................................................................49
3.14.1 About OpenFlow classes............................................................................................49
3.14.2 Controller enforcement levels for OpenFlow classes.......................................................50
3.14.3 OpenFlow classes display details...............................................................................50
3.14.4 Changing the enforcement levels for OpenFlow classes.................................................51
3.15 Packet listeners display.....................................................................................................51
3.15.1 Packet listeners display details....................................................................................51
4 License Registration and Activation.............................................................52
4.1 Overview.........................................................................................................................52
4.1.1 License registration and activation process.....................................................................52
4.1.2 License types, usage, and expiration.............................................................................52
4.2 Preparing for license registration.........................................................................................53
4.2.1 Verifying registration prerequisites................................................................................53
4.2.2 Identifying the install ID..............................................................................................53
4.3 Registering and activating a license....................................................................................53
4.4 Registering your license and obtaining a license key.............................................................53
4.5 Activating a license on the controller...................................................................................58
4.6 Managing licenses...........................................................................................................59
4.6.1 Transferring licenses...................................................................................................59
4.6.1.1 Uninstalling licenses to prepare for transfer.............................................................60
4.6.1.2 Transferring licenses............................................................................................60
5 SDN Controller authentication ...................................................................63
5.1 SDN Controller security guidelines ......................................................................................63
5.2 SDN Controller authentication ...........................................................................................63
5.3 Creating SDN Controller keystore and truststore....................................................................63
5.4 SDN Controller keystore and truststore locations and passwords .............................................64
5.5 Configuration encryption ...................................................................................................65
5.6 Openflow Controller TLS ...................................................................................................65
5.6.1 Creating Openflow Controller keystore and truststore .....................................................65
5.6.2 Openflow Controller keystore and truststore locations and passwords...............................66
5.7 REST authentication...........................................................................................................66
5.7.1 Openstack Keystone ..................................................................................................67
5.7.2 Service and admin tokens ..........................................................................................68
5.8 Controller code verification ...............................................................................................68
5.8.1 Adding certificates to the jar-signing truststore ..............................................................68
5.8.2 Running the SDN Controller Without Jar-Signing Validation ...........................................68
5.9 Revoking Trust .................................................................................................................69
5.9.1 Revoking trust via truststore .........................................................................................69
5.9.2 Revoking trust via CRL ...............................................................................................69
5.10 SDN administrative REST API ............................................................................................69
5.11 Virgo admin UI access .....................................................................................................70
5.12 Virgo console access .......................................................................................................70
5.13 JMX console ...................................................................................................................71
5.14 Security practices ............................................................................................................71
5.14.1 Security procedure....................................................................................................71
5.14.2 Recommended administrative rules ............................................................................72
6 Hybrid mode for controlling packet-forwarding.............................................73
6.1 Overview.........................................................................................................................73
6.2 Viewing and changing the hybrid mode configuration...........................................................73
6.3 Coordinating controller hybrid mode and OpenFlow switch settings.........................................74
6.3.1 Supporting hybrid mode on OpenFlow switches.............................................................74
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