OpenDaylight User Guide

OpenDaylight is an SDN controller platform developed and released by the OpenDaylight project. The OpenDaylight controller is installed and configured in OPNFV as the networking component of a variety of OPNFV NVFi scenarios using the neutron ODL device driver as an integration point toward OpenStack.

OpenDaylight runs within a JVM and is installed in OPNFV within a container and integrated with OpenStack. The OpenDaylight instance can be configured through the OpenStack Horizon interface, or accessed directly from the OPNFV Jumphost. The Brahmaputra release of OPNFV integrates the latest Beryllium release.

OpenDaylight references

For an overview of the OpenDaylight controller a good reference is the Getting Started Guide. For more detailed information about using the platform the OpenDaylight User Guide provides a good feature by feature reference.

It is important when working on your Brahmaputra deployment to be aware of the configured state of the OpenDaylight controller in the scenario you have deployed, installing an SFC scenario will for instance configure the OpenDaylight controller with the required SFC Karaf features in the OpenDaylight controller. Make sure you read the installation and configuration guide carefully to understand the state of the deployed system.

Connecting to the OpenDaylight instance

Once you are familiar with the OpenDaylight controller and its configuration you will want to connect to the OpenDaylight instance from the Jumphost. To do this you should open a browser on the JumpHost to the following address and enter the username and password:

http://{Controller-VIP}:8181/index.html> username: admin password: admin

Other methods of interacting with and configuring the controller, like the REST API and CLI are also available in the Brahmaputra deployment, see the OpenDaylight User Guide for more information on using those interfaces.

It is important to be aware that when working directly on the OpenDaylight controller the OpenStack instance will not always be aware of the changes you are making to the networking controller. This may result in unrecoverable inconsistencies in your deployment.