Installation

Requirements

OpenFlow controller is required to make NEC OpenFlow plugin work. A controller needs to support REST API available at Sliceable Network Management API.

The following controllers are available:

• Trema with Sliceable Switch (distributed under GPL2)
• NEC ProgrammableFlow Controller (NEC Commercial Product)

Running with DevStack

See DevStack plugin for NEC OpenFlow Neutron plugin integration

Manual Installation

(Kilo or later) Neutron integration is available. After the core/vendor decomposition work, the main code is provided as a separate python module called networking-nec, and the shim code and configuration exist in the Neutron code tree.

The code is maintained at http://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/networking-nec

The released versions of Python module is available at https://pypi.python.org/pypi/networking-nec. To install:

pip install networking-nec~=2015.1

Note that the version number like ‘’‘2015.1’‘’ should match the corresponding OpenStack release version (e.g., 2015.1 for Kilo, 2015.2 for Liberty).

Of course, make sure to install Neutron itself.

From Folsom to Juno, NEC OpenFlow plugin was maintained in the main repo of Neutron http://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/neutron.