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Manage collaboration with SDN

Hosts installed with NingOS 2.0 do not support SDN.

Collaboration with Software-Defined Networking (SDN) enables the management platform to synchronize the resource information with other management systems. The management platform can collaborate with the VCF components and use the REST API interface to communicate with the VCF controller. The VCF controller manages and deploys the network policies to vSwitches in the management platform. Before configuring resource collaboration, you need to configure the VCFC resource access mode on the management platform.

Add a collaboration resource

  1. On the top navigation bar, click Network.

  2. From the left navigation pane, select Collaboration with SDN.

  3. Click Add.

  4. Configure the parameters as described in "Parameters."

  5. Click OK.

Edit a collaboration resource

  1. On the top navigation bar, click Network.

  2. From the left navigation pane, select Collaboration with SDN.

  3. Click Edit in the Actions column for the target collaboration resource.

  4. Configure the parameters as described in "Parameters."

  5. Click OK.

Delete a collaboration resource

  1. On the top navigation bar, click Network.

  2. From the left navigation pane, select Collaboration with SDN.

  3. Click Delete in the Actions column for the target collaboration resource.

  4. Click OK.

View collaboration resource details

  1. On the top navigation bar, click Network.

  2. From the left navigation pane, select Collaboration with SDN.

  3. Click View in the Actions column for the target collaboration resource.

Synchronize distributed vSwitch information with the VCF controller

  1. On the top navigation bar, click Network.

  2. From the left navigation pane, select Collaboration with SDN.

  3. Click Synchronize in the Actions column for the target collaboration resource.

  4. Click OK.

Parameters

• Resource Name: Name of the resource.

• Description: Description for the resource.

• IP Address: IP address of the resource.

• Protocol: Protocol used to access the resource. Options include HTTP and HTTPS.

• Port Number: Port number used to access the resource.

• Collaboration Type: Resource collaboration type. Options include Strong and Weak.

○ Strong—The management platform interacts with the VCFC controller.

○ Weak—NCloud interacts with the VCFC controller.

• Username: Username used to access the resource.

• Password: Password for the user to access the resource.

• Root Path: URL for the management platform to communicate with the VCF controller through the REST API interface.