| Herbert Eiselt | 092189e | 2019-04-03 17:24:29 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | .. contents:: |
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| 5 | Connect |
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| 8 | The 'Connect' application on OpenDaylight provides up-to-date |
| 9 | connectivity information about the wireless devices in the network. It |
| 10 | automatically displays new network elements and their connection status. |
| 11 | Despite the network elements usually automatically mount themselves, an |
| 12 | additional small window allows manually mounting devices/mediators. For |
| 13 | better understanding alarms and status, a connection status log lists |
| 14 | all the connection status changes of OpenDaylight mount points. |
| 15 | |
| 16 | Views |
| 17 | ----- |
| 18 | |
| 19 | The graphical user interfaces is divided in three sections. |
| 20 | |
| 21 | Required Network Elements |
| 22 | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |
| 23 | |
| 24 | Required Network Elements are physical network functions, which are |
| 25 | planned or expected in the network. This means the identifier, IP |
| 26 | addresses and its required configuration is well-known and available in |
| 27 | a planning database or in ONAP A&AI. |
| 28 | |
| 29 | This view also offer to manually configure/mount the device with the '+' |
| 30 | icon. The SDN controller will then start connecting the Netconf server. |
| 31 | |
| 32 | Unknown Network Elements |
| 33 | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |
| 34 | |
| 35 | Most of the physical network function support an automatic registration |
| 36 | procedure to the SDN controller. It may happen, that devices are |
| 37 | connected to the SDN Controller but not available in planning data. |
| 38 | |
| 39 | It might be a normal occurrence for very cheap devices, where an entire |
| 40 | planning process to too expensive. But is may also happen that the |
| 41 | identifier used in planning process differ from the identifier currently |
| 42 | configured in the device. |
| 43 | |
| 44 | Connection Status Log |
| 45 | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |
| 46 | |
| 47 | The log lists the connections status changes between SDN Controller and |
| 48 | NetConf servers (devices). |