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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.
Despite the network elements usually automatically mount themselves, an
additional small window allows manually mounting devices/mediators. For
better understanding alarms and status, a connection status log lists
all the connection status changes of OpenDaylight mount points.

Views
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The graphical user interfaces is divided in three sections.

Required Network Elements
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Required Network Elements are physical network functions, which are
planned or expected in the network. This means the identifier, IP
addresses and its required configuration is well-known and available in
a planning database or in ONAP A&AI.

This view also offer to manually configure/mount the device with the '+'
icon. The SDN controller will then start connecting the Netconf server.

Unknown Network Elements
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Most of the physical network function support an automatic registration
procedure to the SDN controller. It may happen, that devices are
connected to the SDN Controller but not available in planning data.

It might be a normal occurrence for very cheap devices, where an entire
planning process to too expensive. But is may also happen that the
identifier used in planning process differ from the identifier currently
configured in the device.

Connection Status Log
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The log lists the connections status changes between SDN Controller and
NetConf servers (devices).