topic Re: SDN Controller installation in Software Defined Networking

SDN Controller installation

atul12345 — Thu, 30 Jan 2014 09:22:08 GMT

Can SDN Controller installed on 32 bit machine?

Re: SDN Controller installation

EricAtHP — Thu, 30 Jan 2014 16:22:08 GMT

No, it is only supported on Ubuntu 12.04 64 bit.

Re: SDN Controller installation

Anonymous — Thu, 30 Jan 2014 16:50:19 GMT

Hello,

after installing Ubuntu Precise 64 bit you need to run the following commands:

sudo su -
apt-get install python-software-properties ubuntu-cloud-keyring
add-apt-repository "deb http://ubuntu-cloud.archive.canonical.com/ubuntu precise-updates/folsom main"
apt-get update
apt-get install openjdk-7-jre-headless postgresql keystone keystone-doc python-keystone iptables unzip
dpkg -i hp-sdn-ctl_2.0.0.4253_amd64.deb

Once installed you can access the controller under:

https://10.101.253.45:8443/sdn/ui/ sdn / skyline

Now you can connect either physical provision switches:

openflow
   controller-id 1 ip 192.168.10.21 controller-interface vlan 1
   instance aggregate
      listen-port
      controller-id 1
      version 1.3
      limit hardware-rate 10000000
      limit software-rate 10000
      enable
      exit
   enable
   exit

Or physical Comware switches:

# Comware
vlan 4092

interface GigabitEthernet1/0/47
 port access vlan 4092
interface GigabitEthernet1/0/48
 port access vlan 4092

openflow instance 1
 mac-learning forbidden
 classification vlan 4092
 controller 1 address ip 192.168.0.1
 active instance

Or mininet which is a collection of scripts that uses linux network name spaces to simulate multiple switches and hosts. Linux namespaces allow multiple interfaces including loopback interfaces to have each own routing and arp table. This makes it possible to simulate large topologies on a small machine. Quickstart for mininet is to install another Ubuntu precise and execute the following commands:

apt-get install mininet
service openvswitch-switch start
cat > mininet_sample_topo.py <<EOF
from mininet.topo import Topo

class SampleTopo( Topo ):
    "Simple topology"

    def __init__( self ):
        "Create custom topo."

        # Initialize topology
        Topo.__init__( self )

        # Add hosts
        h1= self.addHost( 'h1' )
        h2= self.addHost( 'h2' )
        h3= self.addHost( 'h3' )
        h4= self.addHost( 'h4' )
        h5= self.addHost( 'h5' )
        h6= self.addHost( 'h6' )
        h7= self.addHost( 'h7' )
        h8= self.addHost( 'h8' )
        h9= self.addHost( 'h9' )

        # Switches
        s1= self.addSwitch( 's1' )
        s2= self.addSwitch( 's2' )
        s3= self.addSwitch( 's3' )
        s4= self.addSwitch( 's4' )

        # Add links
        self.addLink( s1, h1 )
        self.addLink( s1, h2 )
        self.addLink( s3, s4 )

        self.addLink( h3, s2 )
        self.addLink( h4, s2 )

        self.addLink( h5, s3 )
        self.addLink( h6, s3 )

        self.addLink( s1, s2 )
        self.addLink( s1, s3 )
        self.addLink( s2, s4 )

        self.addLink( s4, h7 )
        self.addLink( s4, h8 )
        self.addLink( s4, h9 )

topos = { 'sampletopo': ( lambda: SampleTopo() ) }
EOF

mn --custom mininet_sample_topo.py --topo sampletopo --mac --switch ovsk --arp --controller remote,ip=10.103.251.244
pingall

I have made two VMware images ready for the controller and mininet. If you're interested you can drop me an e-mail to thomas at glanzmann dot de.

Cheers,

Thomas

Re: SDN Controller installation

sdnindia — Wed, 05 Feb 2014 11:37:07 GMT

Hello Atul,

I hope the response from Eric answers your question.

Please feel free to reply incase you have more questions around the same topic or open a new thread if new topic.
If you feel we have answered your question, please do let us know by marking this response as an 'accepted solution’.

Thanks
HP SDN Team

Re: SDN Controller installation

atul12345 — Thu, 06 Feb 2014 09:34:08 GMT

Thanks a ton! Setup is fine.

However I am not able to open the SDN Controller UI. https://Controller IP Address :8443/sdn/ui/

Anything missing?

Regards

Atul

Re: SDN Controller installation

sdnindia — Fri, 07 Feb 2014 04:38:45 GMT

Hi,

If possible, please share the logs(/var/log/sdn/virgo/logs/log.log) and screen shot of the SDN UI page.

Are you able to open RSdoc page(https:// Controller IP Address:8443/api/) ?

Thanks
HP SDN Team

Re: SDN Controller installation

Gerhard Roets — Fri, 07 Feb 2014 12:48:14 GMT

hi Atul

Can you give us the output of the following commands

uname -a

sudo service sdnc status

sudo service sdna status

sudo service keystone status

sudo dpkg -l | grep -i sdn

sudo dpkg -l | grep -i keystone

netstat -na | grep 8443

Sample output:

gpr@sdncontroller1:~$ uname -a
Linux sdncontroller1 3.8.0-29-generic #42~precise1-Ubuntu SMP Wed Aug 14 16:19:23 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
gpr@sdncontroller1:~$ 
gpr@sdncontroller1:~$ sudo service sdnc status
sdnc start/running, process 812
gpr@sdncontroller1:~$ 
gpr@sdncontroller1:~$ sudo service sdna status

sdna start/running, process 815
gpr@sdncontroller1:~$ 
gpr@sdncontroller1:~$ sudo service keystone status

keystone start/running, process 728
gpr@sdncontroller1:~$ 
gpr@sdncontroller1:~$ sudo dpkg -l | grep -i sdn

sudo dpkg -l | grep -i keystone
ii  hp-sdn-ctl                       2.1.0.4863                   HP VAN SDN Controller

netstat -na | grep 8443
gpr@sdncontroller1:~$ 
gpr@sdncontroller1:~$ sudo dpkg -l | grep -i keystone
ii  keystone                         2012.2.4-0ubuntu3.1~cloud0   OpenStack identity service - Daemons
ii  keystone-doc                     2012.2.4-0ubuntu3.1~cloud0   OpenStack identity service - Documentation
ii  python-keystone                  2012.2.4-0ubuntu3.1~cloud0   OpenStack identity service - Python library
ii  python-keystoneclient            1:0.1.3-0ubuntu1.1~cloud0    Client libary for Openstack Keystone API
gpr@sdncontroller1:~$ 
gpr@sdncontroller1:~$ netstat -na | grep 8443
tcp6       0      0 :::8443                 :::*                    LISTEN     
tcp6       0      0 10.128.10.4:8443        10.99.0.4:65086         TIME_WAIT  
tcp6       0      0 10.128.10.4:8443        10.128.1.1:54156        ESTABLISHED
tcp6       0      0 10.128.10.4:8443        10.99.0.4:65493         ESTABLISHED
gpr@sdncontroller1:~$

Kind Regards

Gerhard

Re: SDN Controller installation

atul12345 — Mon, 10 Feb 2014 10:08:44 GMT

Hi,

I did netstat -atupvn and found missing service on port 8443. Did a reinstallation and it worked.

Thanks

Atul

Re: SDN Controller installation

sdnindia — Thu, 06 Mar 2014 10:19:01 GMT

Hello Atul,

Thank you for letting us know. Please do feel free to reply in case you need any assistance with respect to this topic or open up a new thread if it’s a new topic.

Thanks

HP SDN Team

Re: SDN Controller installation

stacehip — Fri, 17 Apr 2015 08:43:45 GMT

Hi,

we are trying to get 2.5 running on another box and are having similar issues to the people above. VAN doesn't want to bind to ipv4 8443. The VM has 9 GB ram and 4 vCPUs. See requested output below. This is a fresh install of Ubuntu 12.04

uname -a
Linux hyperglance 3.13.0-32-generic #57~precise1-Ubuntu SMP Tue Jul 15 03:51:20 UTC 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

$ sudo service sdnc status
sdnc start/running, process 1093

$ sudo service sdna status
sdna start/running, process 1096

$ sudo service keystone status
keystone start/running, process 1100

$ sudo dpkg -l | grep -i sdn
ii hp-sdn-ctl 2.5.11.1149 HP VAN SDN Controller
hyperglance@hyperglance:~$ sudo dpkg -l | grep -i keystone
ii keystone 1:2014.1.4-0ubuntu2~cloud0 OpenStack identity service - Daemons
ii python-keystone 1:2014.1.4-0ubuntu2~cloud0 OpenStack identity service - Python library
ii python-keystoneclient 1:0.7.1-ubuntu1~cloud0 Client library for OpenStack Identity API

$ netstat -na | grep 8443
tcp6 0 0 :::8443 :::* LISTEN
tcp6 38 0 127.0.0.1:54266 127.0.0.1:8443 CLOSE_WAIT

Re: SDN Controller installation

sfiermonti — Thu, 08 Oct 2015 14:32:55 GMT

I am having the same issues...fresh install and cannot get this to work.

Need an OVA file for this...would make lives a TON easier!!!!!