Installing OpenDaylight

You complete the following steps to install your networking environment, with specific instructions provided in the subsections below.

Before detailing the instructions for these, we address the following: Java Runtime Environment (JRE) and operating system information Target environment Known issues and limitations

Install OpenDaylight

Downloading and installing OpenDaylight

The default distribution can be found on the OpenDaylight software download page: https://docs.opendaylight.org/en/latest/downloads.html

The Karaf distribution has no features enabled by default. However, all of the features are available to be installed.

Note

For compatibility reasons, you cannot enable all the features simultaneously. We try to document known incompatibilities in the Install the Karaf features section below.

Running the karaf distribution

To run the Karaf distribution:

1. Unzip the zip file.

2. Navigate to the directory.

3. run ./bin/karaf.

For Example:

$ ls karaf-0.8.x-Oxygen.zip
karaf-0.8.x-Oxygen.zip
$ unzip karaf-0.8.x-Oxygen.zip
Archive:  karaf-0.8.x-Oxygen.zip
   creating: karaf-0.8.x-Oxygen/
   creating: karaf-0.8.x-Oxygen/configuration/
   creating: karaf-0.8.x-Oxygen/data/
   creating: karaf-0.8.x-Oxygen/data/tmp/
   creating: karaf-0.8.x-Oxygen/deploy/
   creating: karaf-0.8.x-Oxygen/etc/
   creating: karaf-0.8.x-Oxygen/externalapps/
   ...
   inflating: karaf-0.8.x-Oxygen/bin/start.bat
   inflating: karaf-0.8.x-Oxygen/bin/status.bat
   inflating: karaf-0.8.x-Oxygen/bin/stop.bat
$ cd distribution-karaf-0.8.x-Oxygen
$ ./bin/karaf

    ________                       ________                .__  .__       .__     __
    \_____  \ ______   ____   ____ \______ \ _____  ___.__.\|  \| \|__\| ____ \|  \|___/  \|_
     /   \|   \\____ \_/ __ \ /    \ \|    \|  \\__  \<   \|  \|\|  \| \|  \|/ ___\\|  \|  \   __\
    /    \|    \  \|_> >  ___/\|   \|  \\|    `   \/ __ \\___  \|\|  \|_\|  / /_/  >   Y  \  \|
    \_______  /   __/ \___  >___\|  /_______  (____  / ____\|\|____/__\___  /\|___\|  /__\|
            \/\|__\|        \/     \/        \/     \/\/            /_____/      \/

• Press tab for a list of available commands

• Typing [cmd] --help will show help for a specific command.

• Press ctrl-d or type system:shutdown or logout to shutdown OpenDaylight.

Note

Please take a look at the Deployment Recommendations and following sections under Security Considerations if you’re planning on running OpenDaylight outside of an isolated test lab environment.

Install the Karaf features

To install a feature, use the following command, where feature1 is the feature name listed in the table below:

feature:install <feature1>

You can install multiple features using the following command:

feature:install <feature1> <feature2> ... <featureN-name>

Note

For compatibility reasons, you cannot enable all Karaf features simultaneously. The table below documents feature installation names and known incompatibilities.Compatibility values indicate the following:

• all - the feature can be run with other features.

• self+all - the feature can be installed with other features with a value of all, but may interact badly with other features that have a value of self+all. Not every combination has been tested.

Uninstalling features

To uninstall a feature, you must shut down OpenDaylight, delete the data directory, and start OpenDaylight up again.

Important

Uninstalling a feature using the Karaf feature:uninstall command is not supported and can cause unexpected and undesirable behavior.

Listing available features

To find the complete list of Karaf features, run the following command:

feature:list

To list the installed Karaf features, run the following command:

feature:list -i

The description of these features is in the project specific release notes Project-specific Release Notes section.

Karaf running on Windows 10

Windows 10 cannot be identify by Karaf (equinox). Issue occurs during installation of karaf features e.g.:

opendaylight-user@root>feature:install odl-restconf
Error executing command: Can't install feature odl-restconf/0.0.0:
Could not start bundle mvn:org.fusesource.leveldbjni/leveldbjni-all/1.8-odl in feature(s) odl-akka-leveldb-0.7: The bundle "org.fusesource.leveldbjni.leveldbjni-all_1.8.0 [300]" could not be resolved. Reason: No match found for native code: META-INF/native/windows32/leveldbjni.dll; processor=x86; osname=Win32, META-INF/native/windows64/leveldbjni.dll; processor=x86-64; osname=Win32, META-INF/native/osx/libleveldbjni.jnilib; processor=x86; osname=macosx, META-INF/native/osx/libleveldbjni.jnilib; processor=x86-64; osname=macosx, META-INF/native/linux32/libleveldbjni.so; processor=x86; osname=Linux, META-INF/native/linux64/libleveldbjni.so; processor=x86-64; osname=Linux, META-INF/native/sunos64/amd64/libleveldbjni.so; processor=x86-64; osname=SunOS, META-INF/native/sunos64/sparcv9/libleveldbjni.so; processor=sparcv9; osname=SunOS

Workaround is to add:

org.osgi.framework.os.name = Win32

to the karaf file:

etc/system.properties

The workaround and further info are in this thread: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/35679852/karaf-exception-is-thrown-while-installing-org-fusesource-leveldbjni