SDN Network Statistics and Visualization

SDN Network Statistics and Visualization using Onos and the ELK Stack

Setup and Configuration for running Onos and Mininet

1.) Download the SDNFinal.ova VM Image

mkdir ~/sdn-viz && cd ~/sdn-viz
wget https://www.dropbox.com/s/wwzilgm3g3kxebr/SDNFinal.ova?dl=0

2.) Import the VM Image into VirtualBox

3.) Start the VM and login with the following username and password

username: sdn
password: sdn

4.) Build Onos

cd ~/onos
bazel run onos-local 

Onos has successfully started if you see the following message

Updated node 127.0.0.1 state to READY 

OR

5.) Use the Onos helper script to start Onos

start-onos-local

6.) In a new terminal, clone the repo

cd ~
git clone https://github.com/kprohith/coms6200/

7.) Create an Onos app

cd ~/OnosApps
 ~/onos/tools/dev/bin/onos-create-app  

Specify the app properties as follows

Define value for property 'groupId': org.hub.app
Define value for property 'artifactId': hub
Define value for property 'version' 1.0-SNAPSHOT: : 1.10.0
Define value for property 'package' org.hub.app

8.) Replace hub/pom.xml and src/main/java/org/hub/app/AppComponenet.java with the files from the repo

   cp ~/coms6200/pom.xml ~/OnosApps/hub/pom.xml
   cp ~/coms6200/AppComponent.java ~/OnosApps/hub/src/main/java/org/hub/app/AppComponent.java

9.) Build the app

cd ~/OnosApps/hub
mvn clean install

10.) Start Mininet

sudo mno --topo tree,3,2 --mac

11.) Sign up for an ElasticCloud account and create a new ElasticCloud deployment 12.) Make a note of the initial configuration details for the deployment - the username and password are show on deployment creation. These arwe your credentials for cloud_auth. 13.) Make a note of the cloud_id bvalue from the deployment details page.

14.) Install logstash

sudo apt-get install logstash

15.) Copy logstash configuration file

sudo cp ~/coms6200/logstash.conf /etc/logstash/conf.d/logstash.conf

16.) Modify cloud_id and cloud_auth in logstash.conf to your own credentials.

17.) Start logstash

sudo systemctl start logstash.service

18.) From a new terminal, Install and activate the app

onos-app localhost install! target/hub-1.10.0.oar

The app has been successfully installed if you see the following message

| 226 - org.hub.app.hub - 1.10.0 | Starting app
| 226 - org.hub.app.hub - 1.10.0 | Writing header

19.) Check the log file

cd ~
tail data.csv

20.) Go to the ElasticCloud deployment page and click on the Discover tab. You should see the data from the log file. You can import the Kibana visualizations using the dashboard.json file.