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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Hi Ravi-<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">With respect to NICIRA NVP Plugin in Quantum, All the processing is done with respect to Nicira NVP.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Also, the Controller cluster arguments are provided from ini file.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Can you point me to where the OVS certificates are handled in Nicira code base for quantum.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">--<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Trinath Somanchi - B39208<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#548DD4">trinath.somanchi@</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#548DD4">freescale</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#548DD4">.com</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Ravi Chunduru [mailto:ravivsn@gmail.com]
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<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, August 07, 2013 11:32 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> OpenStack Development Mailing List<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [openstack-dev] [Neutron] Configuration of Openflow controller reachability information in OVS from Openstack<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p>look into nicira neutrón plugin. <br>
I like the idea of ovs controller config driven through neutrón api. Nicira approach today is to add ovs certificates onto ovs controller manually.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>On Aug 6, 2013 9:09 PM, "Addepalli Srini-B22160" <<a href="mailto:B22160@freescale.com">B22160@freescale.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> Hi,<br>
> <br>
> Using OVS Quantum Plugin and agent, it is possible to configure OVS with<br>
> <br>
> Openflow logical switches.<br>
> Tables<br>
> Ports to the logical switches (VLAN, VXLAN, GRE etc..)<br>
> <br>
> OVS Agent in each compute node uses local ovs-vsctl command to configure above.<br>
> <br>
> But, there is no simple way for Openstack quantum to configure OVS in compute nodes with OF controller IP address, TCP Port, SSL Certificates etc..<br>
> Also, there is no mechanism today to get hold of DPID of the OVS logical switches by Openstack controller.<br>
> <br>
> Do you think that it is good to enhance Openstack OVS Quantum Plugin and agent to pass above information?<br>
> <br>
> At very high level, we are thinking to introduce following:<br>
> <br>
> <br>
> Configuration of OF Controller reachability information<br>
> Quantum extension API though which is used to set following:<br>
> Set of Openflow controllers - For each OF controller<br>
> IP address, Port<br>
> SSL Enabled Yes/No.<br>
> If SSL enabled<br>
> CA certificate chain to validate OF controller identification by the OVS.<br>
> Zone/Cell for which this OF controller is applicable for.<br>
> Changes to QuantumClient to configure above.<br>
> OVS Quantum Plugin to store above information in the database.<br>
> OVS Quantum Agent to Plugin communication to get hold of OF controller information.<br>
> OVS Quantum Agent to add the information in OVS using ovs-vsctl.<br>
> Generation of logical switch certificates<br>
> OVS Quantum agent requests the plugin to generate local certificate and private key for each one of the logical switches<br>
> Agent to send DPID<br>
> Plugin to generate certificate & private key pair and sending them as response.<br>
> Plugin configuration file to have CA certificate to use to sign the logical switch certificates.<br>
> <br>
> <br>
> Does that make sense? Is this work going on somewhere else?<br>
> <br>
> Thanks<br>
> Srini<br>
> <br>
> <br>
> <br>
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