Installing OpenDaylight as a service
When we install OpenDaylight, we'll want it to operate as a system service on our host platform (Windows, Linux, and so on). In this recipe, we'll set up OpenDaylight to start when your system boots up.
Getting ready
The ingredients of this recipe include an OpenDaylight distribution kit and a source code editor. Sample wrapper configuration for this recipe is available at:
https://github.com/jgoodyear/OpenDaylightCookbook/tree/master/chapter10/chapter10-recipe5
How to do it...
Installing OpenDaylight as a service is a three-step process; installing the service wrapper feature, installing the wrapper service, and then performing a set of system dependent operations to integrate OpenDaylight as a service into your host operating system. The steps are given as following:
- Installing the
service-wrapper
feature.
OpenDaylight utilizes a service-wrapper
feature to handle gathering and deploying the required resources for your host-operating environment. We begin its...