= bscontrol aggregate manager =
The ORBIT service to manage basestations named bscontrol, which manages the basestations, including power/rf on/off status, power and frequency selection, and other physical parameters. 

To use this service, install the package omf-aggmgr-bscontrol-5.4 from the ORBIT repository

The following basestation types are supported, although with varying subsets of features. At a minimum, they support RF On and Off.
* WiMAX
 * NEC
 * Airspan
* LTE
 * Airspan
 * Amarisoft
 * !OpenAirInterface
* Wifi
 * Hostapd

*Features supported
 * Start
 * Stop
 * Reset
 * setFrequency
 * getFrequency

Datapath features are currently managed by bscontrol, but will be migrated to a new service, dpcontrol, for additional flexibility, as the EPC/ ASNgw is often centrally managed for many eNBs. This will allow cross technology management of assigning users/device to specific networks/vlans/service classes.

The main configuration file is in /etc/omf-aggmgr-5.4/enabled/bscontrol.yaml
Command line options needed are specific to each basestation type.

The types themselves are defined/listed in {{{/usr/share/omf-aggmgr-5.4/omg-aggmgr/ogs_bscontrol/bs}}}

Calls to bscontrol are simple REST calls, of the format {{{dns_name:5054/bscontrol/bs/1/stop}}}
For calls requiring an input value, they are specified as {{{dns_name:5054/bscontrol/bs/1/setFrequency?set=2412}}}

= dpcontrol aggregate manager =
dpcontrol is used to control client datapaths, in asn-gws and EPCs. Control is done via a REST API, wrapping calls to underlying software. The underlying software, either asn-gw, or EPC, is configured by editing the relevant text files or database.

This is responsible for registering and authenticating clients, as well as associating them with a vlan or network. The network control is done via openvswitch or the click software router, as appropriate.


notes:
* to successfully restart asngw:
 1. restart asngw
 1. restart omf
 1. restart asngw again