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This section covers the details involved in getting, installing, and running ONOS. Both single- and multi-instance cases are described.

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This section assumes that the reader has already checked out the latest source by following Getting ONOS - ONOS Source Code.

Prerequisites

ONOS and its test scripts are developed and tested on OS X (Mavericks and later) and Ubuntu (14.04 64-bit), with focus on the latter.

We recommend the following if a VM is used for running ONOS:

Ubuntu Server 14.04 LTS 64-bit
2GB or more RAM
2 or more processors

In order to build and run ONOS the following are required:

Java 8 JDK (Oracle Java recommended; OpenJDK is not as thoroughly tested)
Apache Maven (3.0 and later)
git
bash (for packaging & testing)
Apache Karaf (3.0.2 and later)

Many of these have installers or packages, or, in the case of Karaf, simply be installed by extracting the tar archives to the desired install location.

Finally, to take full advantage of the ONOS test suite and various developer conveniences, it is also recommended that developers have the following tools available on their machines:

IDE (IntelliJ, Eclipse, etc.)
VirtualBox (or other VM hosting software)

Java and Maven

The ONOS install process relies on the environment variable JAVA_HOME being properly set. In other words, both mvn --version and java -version should report the same Java version:

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The best way to prevent this version mismatch is to install Maven before Java 8.

Upgrading to Java 8

For OS X, the latest Oracle Java 8 SDK can be downloaded from Oracle.

For Ubuntu, the following steps will upgrade the installation to Java 8:

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$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java -y
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install oracle-java8-installer oracle-java8-set-default -y

You will have to accept the Oracle binary license terms

Setting JAVA_HOME

If not set automatically during the Java 8 installation process, The JAVA_HOME environment variable should be set to the JRE installation location for Java 8. The process for verifying/setting the proper version varies with platform.

On OS X: The current JAVA_HOME may be verified with:

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$ /usr/libexec/java_home
/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_25.jdk/Contents/Home

To set the version, either run or add the following to the shell profile:

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$ export JAVA_HOME=$(/usr/libexec/java_home -v 1.8)

On Ubuntu: To verify the JAVA_HOME:

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$ env | grep JAVA_HOME
JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-oracle

If JAVA_HOME is not set or incorrect, either run or add the following to the shell profile:

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$ export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-oracle

part is to deploy a distribution version in production environment, not for development purpose. For developer, please read (Developer Quick Start), and other articles in the Developer Guide.

The following sections describe how to install, initially configure, and run ONOS:

Installing ONOS

Environment Setup

To get the most from the tools and instructions discussed in the following sections, it is highly recommended that the ONOS_ROOT environment variable is exported in the shell profile (.bash_aliases, .profile, etc.) to refer to the top of the ONOS source tree. For example:

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$ export ONOS_ROOT=~/onos $ source $ONOS_ROOT/tools/dev/bash_profile

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title	Adding Karaf related commands to PATH

To use karaf or onos command described in following sections, $KARAF_ROOT/bin needs be added to the PATH environment variable.

By default $ONOS_ROOT/tools/dev/bash_profile expects $KARAF_ROOT to be ~/Applications/apache-karaf-$KARAF_VERSION and add them to the PATH.

If you have installed Apache Karaf to a different path, define $KARAF_ROOT pointing to the correct path before including $ONOS_ROOT/tools/dev/bash_profile

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ONOS uses Maven for managing the build process. To build the ONOS code-base from the top-most level, and from scratch, simply type the following:

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$ cd ~/onos
$ mvn clean install

This triggers a full build, complete with unit testing. This may take several minutes, depending on the compute resources of the machine used. When complete, there should be an output similar to the following:

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[INFO] --- maven-bundle-plugin:2.5.3:install (default-install) @ onos-branding ---
[INFO] Installing org/onlab/onos/onos-branding/1.0.0-SNAPSHOT/onos-branding-1.0.0-SNAPSHOT.jar
[INFO] Writing OBR metadata
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Reactor Summary:
[INFO] 
[INFO] onos-build-conf ................................... SUCCESS [0.697s]
[INFO] onos .............................................. SUCCESS [2.549s]
[INFO] onlab-utils ....................................... SUCCESS [1.521s]
[INFO] onlab-junit ....................................... SUCCESS [4.707s]
[INFO] onlab-misc ........................................ SUCCESS [8.002s]
[INFO] onlab-netty ....................................... SUCCESS [3.119s]
[INFO] onlab-nio ......................................... SUCCESS [2.048s]
[INFO] onlab-osgi ........................................ SUCCESS [0.635s]
[INFO] onlab-rest ........................................ SUCCESS [0.637s]
[INFO] onlab-thirdparty .................................. SUCCESS [2.212s]
[INFO] onos-core ......................................... SUCCESS [0.481s]
[INFO] onos-api .......................................... SUCCESS [6.186s]
[INFO] onos-core-store ................................... SUCCESS [0.641s]
[INFO] onos-core-trivial ................................. SUCCESS [3.002s]
[INFO] onos-core-net ..................................... SUCCESS [5.778s]
[INFO] onos-core-serializers ............................. SUCCESS [2.788s]
[INFO] onos-core-dist .................................... SUCCESS [8.149s]
[INFO] onos-json ......................................... SUCCESS [0.615s]
[INFO] onos-web .......................................... SUCCESS [0.533s]
[INFO] onos-gui .......................................... SUCCESS [0.888s]
[INFO] onos-rest ......................................... SUCCESS [1.886s]
[INFO] onos-cli .......................................... SUCCESS [1.163s]
[INFO] onos-of ........................................... SUCCESS [0.457s]
[INFO] onos-of-api ....................................... SUCCESS [8.798s]
[INFO] onos-providers .................................... SUCCESS [0.431s]
[INFO] onos-of-providers ................................. SUCCESS [0.473s]
[INFO] onos-of-provider-device ........................... SUCCESS [1.940s]
[INFO] onos-of-provider-link ............................. SUCCESS [2.042s]
[INFO] onos-of-provider-host ............................. SUCCESS [1.562s]
[INFO] onos-of-provider-packet ........................... SUCCESS [1.946s]
[INFO] onos-of-provider-flow ............................. SUCCESS [0.821s]
[INFO] onos-lldp-provider ................................ SUCCESS [1.824s]
[INFO] onos-host-provider ................................ SUCCESS [1.672s]
[INFO] onos-of-ctl ....................................... SUCCESS [2.213s]
[INFO] onos-of-drivers ................................... SUCCESS [0.560s]
[INFO] onos-apps ......................................... SUCCESS [0.436s]
[INFO] onos-app-tvue ..................................... SUCCESS [0.625s]
[INFO] onos-app-fwd ...................................... SUCCESS [0.618s]
[INFO] onos-app-ifwd ..................................... SUCCESS [0.592s]
[INFO] onos-app-foo ...................................... SUCCESS [0.814s]
[INFO] onos-app-mobility ................................. SUCCESS [0.611s]
[INFO] onos-app-proxyarp ................................. SUCCESS [0.579s]
[INFO] onos-app-config ................................... SUCCESS [0.626s]
[INFO] onos-app-sdnip .................................... SUCCESS [5.847s]
[INFO] onos-app-calendar ................................. SUCCESS [0.631s]
[INFO] onos-app-optical .................................. SUCCESS [0.732s]
[INFO] onos-app-metrics .................................. SUCCESS [0.435s]
[INFO] onos-app-metrics-intent ........................... SUCCESS [0.639s]
[INFO] onos-app-metrics-topology ......................... SUCCESS [0.681s]
[INFO] onos-app-oecfg .................................... SUCCESS [1.282s]
[INFO] onos-features ..................................... SUCCESS [0.442s]
[INFO] onos-branding ..................................... SUCCESS [0.486s]
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] BUILD SUCCESS
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time: 1:40.113s
[INFO] Finished at: Sat Nov 08 13:49:43 PST 2014
[INFO] Final Memory: 120M/1453M
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Running ONOS

ONOS may be run on the build machine directly, or packaged and launched on remote machines or VMs. This section describes both launching ONOS on the build machine (locally), and packaging and deploying on a remote (target) machine.

Initial configuration

Karaf must first be configured to load the ONOS-related modules. Karaf's configuration file $KARAF_ROOT/etc/org.apache.karaf.features.cfg . Edit the file:

Append the following to featuresRepositories:

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mvn:org.onosproject/onos-features/1.0.0-SNAPSHOT/xml/features

Append the following to featuresBoot:

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onos-api,onos-core-trivial,onos-cli,onos-openflow,onos-app-fwd,onos-app-mobility,onos-gui

The above loads the trivial (single-instance) ONOS core, forwarding, and Web GUI applications.

Running locally on build machine

After running maven as described in Building ONOS and making the above changes, karaf can be used to start ONOS and attach to its CLI:

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$ karaf clean
Welcome to Open Network Operating System (ONOS)!
     ____  _  ______  ____   
    / __ \/ |/ / __ \/ __/    
   / /_/ /    / /_/ /\ \       
   \____/_/|_/\____/___/      

                             
Hit '<tab>' for a list of available commands
and '[cmd] --help' for help on a specific command.
Hit '<ctrl-d>' or type 'system:shutdown' or 'logout' to shutdown ONOS.

onos>

At this point, typing help onos at the prompt should still bring up a list of available commands. Ctrl-D or logout will exit the CLI.

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Launching karaf may bring up the default karaf prompt, without the 'ONOS' ASCII art. This is purely cosmetic, and shouldn't affect functionality.

If the branding is desired, one can move the branding bundle created during the build process to karaf's lib directory:

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$ cp ${ONOS_ROOT}/tools/package/branding/target/onos-branding-1.0.0-SNAPSHOT.jar ${KARAF_ROOT}/lib/

And relaunch karaf.

Running remotely with `onos-package` and `onos-install`

Remote installations are useful when one wishes to run ONOS on a remote machine (or a VM), or run multiple ONOS instances in a cluster. This section demonstrates remote installation on a single remote machine.

Overview

The ONOS build process produces a number of OSGi bundles, which are essentially Java jar files. These bundles can e deployed in any OSGi container, but this would require that such container be installed, properly configured, and that the bundles be collected and properly staged. The ONOS utility scripts, onos-package and onos-install, simplifies this task down to two steps:

Running onos-package packages the ONOS binaries into a distributable compressed tar. Then,
Running onos-install pushes the package created by onos-package onto the remote VM.

Setup

Some preparations are needed for using these scripts:

On the build machine:

The Apache Karaf binaries (either .zip or .tar.gz format) are available in ~/Downloads
The ONOS source has been built

The ONOS_FEATURES variable should be set to the list of modules Karaf should launch with ONOS:

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$ export ONOS_FEATURES="webconsole,onos-api,onos-core,onos-cli,onos-openflow,onos-app-fwd,onos-app-mobility,onos-app-tvue"

On the target VM:

The Oracle Java 8 JRE and Maven are installed
A user named sdn with pasword-less sudo privilege, or, on the build machine, the ONOS_USER environment variable is set to the preferred user for the VM.
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To enable sudo without a password, edit the sudoers configuration. To do this, run sudo visudo within the VM, and add the following line:
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sdn ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL

Additionally, onos-install relies on ssh to deploy the package to the target machine. To make the process easier, password-less (e.g. key-based) login to the VM is recommended. The onos-push-keys utility can be used to transfer one's public keys to the VM:

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$ onos-push-keys 192.168.56.10
sdn@192.168.56.10's password: 
sdn@192.168.56.10's password:

This requires that the keys have been generated prior to using the utility. As shown above, it will ask for the password twice.

Deployment

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$ onos-package
-rw-r--r-- 1 onosuser wheel 34187574 Nov 8 14:52 /tmp/onos-1.0.0.onosuser.tar.gz

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Deploy the binary by pointing onos-install to the remote target to run ONOS on (192.168.56.20 in this example):

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$ onos-install 192.168.56.20
onos start/running, process 9513

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If ONOS has been previously installed on a remote machine, `onos-install -f [target]` will force a reinstall.

Once ONOS is running, the onos utility can be used to attach to the remote instance's CLI:

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$ onos 192.168.56.20
Welcome to Open Network Operating System (ONOS)!
     ____  _  ______  ____   
    / __ \/ |/ / __ \/ __/    
   / /_/ /    / /_/ /\ \       
   \____/_/|_/\____/___/      

                             
Hit '<tab>' for a list of available commands
and '[cmd] --help' for help on a specific command.
Hit '<ctrl-d>' or type 'system:shutdown' or 'logout' to shutdown ONOS.

onos>

Handling multiple remote targets

For dealing with multiple remote machines, the behavior of the ONOS utilities can be streamlined by employing test cells. Test cells are discussed under Test Environment Setup in the Developer's Guide.

If Things go Wrong

Maven and Karaf

Both Maven and Karaf rely on network access for some of their functionality. One of the first points to check if a build fails is to check for connectivity, and rebuild the project once it is restored.

In Karaf, connectivity issues may manifest as bundles not loading (e.g. not being able to use any ONOS-related commands, or help onos returning nothing). It may also take some time for ONOS to fully boot up, in which case some commands may not be available for the first minute or so.

Running in a VM

Make sure that the primary user in the VM (sdn) has superuser privilege, or is part of sudoers.

Also be sure that there is a .m2 directory in the user's home directory. Running Maven at least once in the VM will generate the directory.

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Running ONOS

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Overview

Setup

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Handling multiple remote targets

If Things go Wrong

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Prerequisites

Java and Maven

Upgrading to Java 8

Setting JAVA_HOME

Installing ONOS

Environment Setup

Running ONOS

Initial configuration

Running locally on build machine

Running remotely with onos-package and onos-install

Overview

Setup

Deployment

Handling multiple remote targets

If Things go Wrong

Maven and Karaf

Running in a VM

Running remotely with `onos-package` and `onos-install`