Managing an Ethernet switch in an SDN Environment

OpenDaylight uses the SNMP4SDN plugin to manage Ethernet switches in the SDN Environments. The SNMP4SDN plugin will let you configure the forwarding tables and ACL of the Ethernet switches by using the SNMP plugin.

Getting ready

This recipe requires an OpenDaylight Beryllium distribution and you will need to download the recipe folder from this book's GitHub repository. In this recipe, you will learn how OpenDaylight can be used to install flow configurations in Ethernet switches and to manage different Ethernet switches provided by different vendors.

How to do it...

Perform the following steps:

1. Start the OpenDaylight distribution using the karaf script. Using this client will give you access to the Karaf CLI:

$ cd distribution-karaf-0.4.1-Beryllium-SR1/ 
$ ./bin/karaf
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