Table Of Contents - HP HPE VAN SDN Controller 2.7 Administrator's Manual

Contents
1 Introduction........................................................................................................10
About the HPE VAN SDN Controller...................................................................................................10
The HPE SDN ecosystem..................................................................................................................10
SDN Controller applications and the App Store.................................................................................12
Hewlett Packard Enterprise SDN information library..........................................................................12
Supported switches and OpenFlow compatibility ..............................................................................12
OpenFlow requirements................................................................................................................12
IPv6 traffic......................................................................................................................................13
2 Understanding the controller architecture.........................................................14
List of controller embedded applications............................................................................................15
OpenFlow Link Discovery ..................................................................................................................15
OpenFlow Node Discovery ................................................................................................................16
Path Diagnostics ................................................................................................................................17
Path Daemon......................................................................................................................................17
Topology Manager..............................................................................................................................19
Topology Viewer.................................................................................................................................20
3 Using the SDN controller UI..............................................................................21
Starting the SDN controller console UI...............................................................................................21
Default domain name, user name, and password.........................................................................22
About the user interface......................................................................................................................22
Banner...........................................................................................................................................23
Changing column widths...............................................................................................................23
SDN User window...............................................................................................................................23
User window screen details...........................................................................................................24
Changing the SDN user password................................................................................................24
Changing the background and text colors.....................................................................................25
Expanding the SDN user window..................................................................................................25
Collapsing the SDN user window..................................................................................................25
Logging out of the controller..........................................................................................................25
Navigation menu.................................................................................................................................25
About the navigation menu............................................................................................................25
Expanding or collapsing the navigation menu...............................................................................25
Navigation menu screen details....................................................................................................26
Alerts...................................................................................................................................................27
About alerts...................................................................................................................................27
Alerts screen details......................................................................................................................28
Viewing the alert notification counter.............................................................................................29
Viewing the ten most severe recent active alerts .........................................................................29
Acknowledging an alert.................................................................................................................30
Deleting an alert............................................................................................................................30
Configuring how alerts age out......................................................................................................31
Applications........................................................................................................................................32
About the application manager......................................................................................................32
Prerequisites for installing an application......................................................................................32
Applications screen details............................................................................................................33
Obtaining applications from the Hewlett Packard Enterprise SDN App Store...............................34
Adding or upgrading an application...............................................................................................34
Disabling (stopping) or enabling (starting) an application.............................................................35
Uninstalling an application.............................................................................................................36
Understanding application states and OSGi artifacts....................................................................36
Configuration components..................................................................................................................38
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