Using the SNMP plugin with OpenDaylight

Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) is widely used to configure and collect information from network devices. The SNMP plugin allows network applications to communicate with network devices that use SNMP.

Getting ready

In this recipe, you will learn how OpenDaylight connects to a network device using the SNMP protocol to retrieve device data. To step through this recipe, you will need a new OpenDaylight Beryllium distribution and SNMP simulator, and you will need to download the recipe folder from this book's GitHub repository.

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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