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This section describes ONOS's Karaf-based CLI.

Overview

The ONOS CLI is an extension of Karaf's CLI. As a result, it is capable of leveraging features such as programmatic extensibility, the ability to load and unload bundles (among others), and SSH access.

Accessing the CLI

To access the CLI directly from a target machine, refer to these instructions.

If you're deploying ONOS from a management machine, the onos command can be used to attach to a remote ONOS instance (i.e. without logging in first). For example, to access the CLI of an ONOS running on a target machine at 192.168.56.30:

$ onos 192.168.56.30

 

Both Ctrl-D and logout exits the CLI.

ONOS Commands

ONOS supplies a set of its own commands.help onos lists the available commands: 

onos> help onos
COMMANDS
onos:add-flows                  Installs a flow rules                                                                                                                                                                                           
onos:add-host-intent            Installs host-to-host connectivity intent                                                                                                                                                                       
onos:add-multi-to-single-intent Installs point-to-point connectivity intent                                                                                                                                                                     
onos:add-node                   Adds a new controller cluster node
onos:add-optical-intent         Installs optical connectivity intent 
 
...

The commands can be invoked as either onos:<command> or <command> by itself. Some of these commands have further descriptions that can be seen with help onos:<command>.

onos> help onos:add-flows
DESCRIPTION
        onos:add-flows

	    Installs a flow rules

SYNTAX
        onos:add-flows [options] flowPerDevice numOfRuns 

ARGUMENTS
        flowPerDevice
                Number of flows to add per device
        numOfRuns
                Number of iterations
OPTIONS
        --help
                Display this help message
        -j, --json
                Output JSON

Appendix A provides a listing of the currently available CLI commands. 

Bundle Management

Karaf's CLI commands are useful for managing the bundles (modules) that comprise the running ONOS instance. For example, list can be used to show all loaded modules:

onos> list
START LEVEL 100 , List Threshold: 50 
 ID | State  | Lvl | Version          | Name
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 37 | Active |  80 | 0.0.0            | samples                               
 41 | Active |  80 | 2.6              | Commons Lang                          
 42 | Active |  80 | 3.3.2            | Apache Commons Lang                   
...
156 | Active |  80 | 1.1.0.SNAPSHOT   | onos-core-common                      
157 | Active |  80 | 1.1.0.SNAPSHOT   | onos-core-dist                        
158 | Active |  80 | 1.1.0.SNAPSHOT   | onos-core-serializers                 
159 | Active |  80 | 1.1.0.SNAPSHOT   | onlab-netty                           
168 | Active |  80 | 1.1.0.SNAPSHOT   | onos-app-proxyarp 
onos>

Appendix C provides a listing of the available ONOS bundles for the stable release. 

 

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