Changes between Version 9 and Version 10 of Internal/OpenFlow/Controllers/FlowVisor

Timestamp:

May 30, 2012, 6:41:07 AM (12 years ago)

Author:

akoshibe

Comment:

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Internal/OpenFlow/Controllers/FlowVisor

@@ -65 +65 @@
 
 === The testrun Setup ===
-In this setup, !FlowVisor is started on port 6655, with an instance of nox listening on port 6656. A !FlowVisor slice is created to listen to any controllers using port 6656 (in this case, our test NOX instance). A single virtual switch was made to listen for controllers on port 6655, whereby its control is given to NOX by flowvisor. Everything, unless specified, is done in the flowvisor directory.  
+In this setup, !FlowVisor is started on port 6655, with an instance of nox listening on port 6656. A !FlowVisor slice is created to listen to any controllers using port 6656 (in this case, our test NOX instance). A single virtual switch was made to listen for controllers on port 6655, whereby its control is given to NOX by flowvisor. Everything, unless specified, is done in the flowvisor directory.   
 
- 1. ''set up config file.'' The config file should be located in your flowvisor directory. Basing it on the default-config.xml file that comes with the flowvisor install:
+ 1. ''start !FlowVisor.'' Unlike nox, there are no flags to throw it into the background. Here it is started on port 6655:  
 {{{
-cp default-config.xml config.xml
-config-gen-default config.xml (Input: root passwd) 
-}}} 
-
- Here, we created a new instance of the configuration file from the sample !FlowVisor already has. config-gen-default will also prompt you to create a "root password" that you will be using to make changes to the config file through fvctl. 
-
- 2. ''start !FlowVisor.'' Unlike nox, there are no flags to throw it into the background. Here it is started on port 6655:  
-{{{
-flowvisor config.xml 6655 &
+flowvisor -p 6655 &
 }}}
 
-Since !FlowVisor is still buggy as of now, it may be recommended to start !FlowVisor with `screen` to capture any errors. There is also a ''flowvisor-wrapper'' that restarts !FlowVisor if it dies. 
+flowvisor has several options, although config.xml is now irrelevant:
+{{{
+r$ flowvisor -v
+Starting FlowVisor
+FlowVisor version: flowvisor-0.8.3
+Rob Sherwood: rsherwood@telekom.com/rob.sherwood@stanford.edu
+---------------------------------------------------------------
+err: ParseException: org.openflow.example.cli.ParseException: unknown option: v
+FlowVisor [options] config.xml
+        option        type [default]      usage
+        -d|--debug    String [NOTE]       Override default logging threshold in config
+        -p|--port     Integer [0]         Override port from config
+        -l|--logging                      Log to stderr instead of syslog
+        -j|--jetty portInteger [-1]        Override jetty port from config
+        -h|--help                         Print help
+}}}
 
- 3. ''delete sample slices.'' After inspecting them with ''getSliceInfo'', remove them with ''deleteSlice''. There are two slices, "alice" and "bob". Each action usually requires authentication using the password you created in step 1. 
+ 2. ''delete sample slices.'' After inspecting them with ''getSliceInfo'', remove them with ''deleteSlice''. There are two slices, "alice" and "bob". Each action usually requires authentication using the password you created in step 1. 
 {{{
 fvctl getSliceInfo alice