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| Connect |
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| The 'Connect' application on OpenDaylight provides up-to-date |
| connectivity information about the wireless devices in the network. It |
| automatically displays new Network Elements and their connection status. |
| Usually, the Network Elements mount themselves. If necessary, they can |
| be mounted manually by right-clicking on the element and selecting the |
| 'mount' action. For better understanding of alarms and status, a |
| connection status log lists all the connection status changes of |
| OpenDaylight mount points. |
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| Views |
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| The graphical user interface is divided into two sections. |
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| Network Elements |
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| Network Elements are physical network functions (PNFs). A table view |
| shows all configured and connected NetConf Servers of the SDN-R cluster. |
| This view also allows to manually configure/mount a device via the '+' |
| button. The SDN controller will start connecting to the NetConf server. |
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| Network Elements can be marked as 'required'. If an element is required, |
| it will stay available even if disconnected. If an element is not |
| required, it will be deleted once disconnected. |
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| By right-clicking on an element, an action menu opens. The menu allows |
| to mount, unmount, view the details, edit and remove the element. |
| Additionally, it links to several applications like |
| `Fault <../pnfFault/README.md>`__ and |
| `Configure <../pnfConfig/README.md>`__, which will be filtered to |
| display information relevant to the selected element. |
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| Connection Status Log |
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| The log lists the connection status changes between SDN Controller and |
| NetConf servers (devices). |