topic Re: Testing Issue with HP VAN SDN Controller 2.3.5 in Software Defined Networking

Testing Issue with HP VAN SDN Controller 2.3.5

aalgohary — Wed, 01 Oct 2014 14:05:23 GMT

Hi,

I have an issue when I'm trying to deploy applications for test. I disabled verifying signed Jar files by doing the following 2 steps:

(1) Modifying the /opt/sdn/virgo/bin/dmk.sh script and adding "-Dsdn.signedJar=none" in "JMX_OPTS".

(2) Setting com.hp.sdn.adm.mgr.impl.AppManager.verifyZips to flase in HP SDN Controller Console.

and I was able to deploy the applications successfully but the issue is that when I try to run a mininet topology to test against, I receive the following message:

"Unable to contact the remote controller at <controller ip>:6633"

Even restarting the services "sdnc and sdna" doesn't solve it. I had to reinstall the controller again.

Any suggestions to solve this issue?

BR,

Ahmad

Re: Testing Issue with HP VAN SDN Controller 2.3.5

sdnindia — Thu, 09 Oct 2014 10:43:42 GMT

Hello Ahmad,

Since the issue occurs when you try to run the mininet topology , so please share the command you are running for mininet.

Also you have re-installed the controller , are you still facing the same issue?

Before starting mininet, could you please try to ping the Controller IP and check whether it is working?

You can check if Controller is listening on port 6633 using below command

netstat -nl | grep 6633

Thanks,

HP SDN Team

Re: Testing Issue with HP VAN SDN Controller 2.3.5

aalgohary — Thu, 09 Oct 2014 12:23:29 GMT

Hello,

Currently I'm not facing this issue but sometimes it appears wihtout changing anything. Sometimes restarting sdna and sdnc solves the problem and sometimes not. But now it's working fine.

The mininet command I'm using is:

sudo mn --mac --controller=remote,ip=192.168.186.128 --topo=tree,depth=2,fanout=2

Thanks,

Ahmad

Re: Testing Issue with HP VAN SDN Controller 2.3.5

sdnindia — Tue, 28 Oct 2014 05:51:19 GMT

Hello Ahmad,

Doing a follow up to check if you need any further assistance with respect to the query posted.
Please do let us know if your problem is solved.

If you have more questions on the same topic please do reply on the same thread or open a new post if new topic.

Thanks,
HP SDN Team

Re: Testing Issue with HP VAN SDN Controller 2.3.5

aalgohary — Tue, 28 Oct 2014 06:12:06 GMT

Hello,

Yes, the problem has been solved but subjected to occur again. If so, I will reply on the same thread. My appreciation for your help.

BR,

Ahmad Al Gohary

Re: Testing Issue with HP VAN SDN Controller 2.3.5

kykof — Sun, 26 Apr 2015 00:10:41 GMT

Hi,

I have observed the same problem. Sometimes (for example after restarting server which runs controller) the mininet is unable to connect to controller. Multiple restart of sdnc/sdna solve it.

Krystof

Re: Testing Issue with HP VAN SDN Controller 2.3.5

Andrezero — Mon, 06 Jun 2016 01:00:22 GMT

Hi, I am having the same issue. Some times I can not connecto to the controller. I am using mininet.

Please help.

Re: Testing Issue with HP VAN SDN Controller 2.3.5

Scott_Koster — Mon, 06 Jun 2016 14:46:57 GMT

Can I ask that you please update your environments to the 2.7.10 release? We've made a lot of improvements to everything in the many releases sense 2.3.5 as well as delivering a VMware OVA installation package.

Please see this link for download options:

https://h10145.www1.hpe.com/Downloads/SoftwareReleases.aspx?ProductNumber=J9863AAE

Please report back if you're still having trouble with mininet after upgrade.

Cheers,

-Scott

Re: Testing Issue with HP VAN SDN Controller 2.3.5

ShaunWackerly — Fri, 18 Jun 2021 10:53:12 GMT

When using mininet and the VAN controller, always make sure that the mininet topology is not looped when the controller setting is hybrid.mode=true. This would occur even with the latest releases of VAN, but only in looped topologies (the 'tree' topology referenced above is not looped).

Detailed description follows ...

The hybrid.mode=true setting means that the VAN controller will delegate traditional forwarding decisions and topology calculations to the controlled switches, rather than doing specific path-paving itself. This is done to take advantage of the decades of forwarding logic built into switching ASICs. This means that VAN will rely upon spanning-tree or other data-plane protocols to resolve loops in the topology, so that VAN can focus on directing packets related to installed SDN applications (DNS, Lync, etc).

Since mininet does not resolve looped topologies on its own, this causes mininet to loop all packets when VAN is configured with hybrid.mode=true ... mininet assumes the controller will resolve the loop, and the VAN controller delegates that decision back to mininet.

Here's a technical paper which gives the conceptual motivations for hybrid.mode=true:

http://h20195.www2.hp.com/V2/GetDocument.aspx?docname=4AA5-6738ENW&cc=us&lc=en

Re: Testing Issue with HP VAN SDN Controller 2.3.5

Andrezero — Thu, 09 Jun 2016 21:19:45 GMT

I was using HPE SDN VAN Controller 2.5.20 the controller is installed on a virtual machine. The problem is that when I run
netstat -nl | grep 6633. Sometimes it is listening and sometimes it does not. When it is listening mininet can connect to the controller easily.

I tried HPE SDN VAN Controller 2.7.10 and I have the same problem.

Re: Testing Issue with HP VAN SDN Controller 2.3.5

Andrezero — Thu, 09 Jun 2016 21:22:11 GMT

The main problem is that the controller is not listening to the 6633 port.

netstat -nl | grep 6633

Always return no value.

Re: Testing Issue with HP VAN SDN Controller 2.3.5

Scott_Koster — Fri, 10 Jun 2016 15:55:19 GMT

Hi Andrezero,

I'm not seeing this in my environment. When I deploy the 2.7.10 OVA or install the debian package, openflow is always listening when the sdnc service is running.

sdn@VANDemoMay2016:~$ sudo service sdnc status
sdnc start/running, process 921

sdn@VANDemoMay2016:~$ netstat -nl | grep 6633
tcp6 0 0 :::6633 :::* LISTEN

Please pay close attention to the system requirements & follow the installation guide. We only support specific versions of ubuntu with the VAN SDN Controller and our system requirements are well tested. I highly recommend using the OVA package and possibly trying a differnt VM host/hypervisor. (Workstation, ESXi, etc)

Links:

VAN SDN Controller Support Matrix

VAN SDN Controller 2.7 Installation Guide

VAN SDN Controller Software Downloads

Cheers,

-Scott