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Mininet is a container orchestration system for network emulation. 

If you are using Mininet in a VM or on a physical server, it is easy to use onos.py to start up a complete emulated ONOS network, including ONOS cluster, modeled control network, and data network.

Note: This is work in progress - if you wish to try it now, you will need to get onos.py from the following patch: https://gerrit.onosproject.org/#/c/9143/

First, make sure that you have built ONOS using buck:

cd ~/onos
buck build onos

Next, use Mininet and onos.py to start up a virtual ONOS cluster and data network:

cd ~/onos/tools/dev/mininet
sudo mn --custom onos.py --controller onos,3 --switch onosovs --topo torus,4,4

What does this do?

--custom onos.py: uses onos.py to extend Mininet with new controller and switch types

--controller onos,3: tells Mininet to start up an ONOS controller cluster with 3 ONOS nodes

--switch onosovs: this is currently necessary to enable Mininet to automatically connect to a controller with multiple IP addresses (you can also just use --switch onos)

--topo torus,4,4: tells Mininet to use a 4x4 torus topology for the data network

How can I get more information on Mininet?

For more information on Mininet, please check out http://docs.mininet.org

How can I specify the apps for ONOS to load?

For now, try using ONOS_APPS or connecting to the karaf console and using ONOS CLI commands.

In the future, it will be an option to --controller onos and/or ONOSCluster().

How are IP addresses of the ONOS cluster specified?

ONOSCluster takes an ipBase option; default is 192.168.123.0/24

How can I connect to the ONOS console?

Make sure karaf's bin directory is in your path, then:

client -h 192.168.123.1   # or the address of the ONOS node you wish to connect to  

How can I connect to the karaf console using ssh?

ssh -p 8101 karaf@192.168.123.1

How can I connect to the ONOS GUI if ONOS is running in a Mininet host inside a VM?

One way is to use ssh port forwarding, e.g.
ssh -L 8101:192.168.123.1:8101 mininet-vm

Then open up http://localhost:8101/onos/ui/ in your browser.

Another way is to run a browser such as Firefox or Chromium in your VM or server.

firefox &

We hope to make it easier and more automatic in the future.

How can I look at the karaf log file?

tail -f /tmp/onos1/onos*/*karaf*/data/log/karaf.log

How can I look at the ONOS log file?

tail -f /tmp/onos1/onos*/onos.log

Can I ssh into the ONOS cluster?

Not directly with this version of onos.py, since the nodes are not running ssh by default. However, you can attach to it using mininet/util/m:

~/mininet/util/mn 192.168.123.1

Can I use the onos-* scripts from tools/test/bin with this environment?

No, but you should not need to use them for the most part.

 

 

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