User guide

Contents

OmniSwitch AOS Release 8 Switch Management Guide May 2014 ix

Authentication Trap ................................................................................................9-13

Trap Management ..................................................................................................9-13

Replaying Traps ...............................................................................................9-13

Absorbing Traps ..............................................................................................9-13

Sending Traps to WebView .............................................................................9-13

SNMP MIB Information ...............................................................................................9-14

MIB Tables .............................................................................................................9-14

MIB Table Description ....................................................................................9-14

Verifying the SNMP Configuration ..............................................................................9-15

Chapter 10 Web Services, CLI Scripting, and OpenFlow .....................................................10-1

In This Chapter ..............................................................................................................10-1

Web Services Specifications .........................................................................................10-2

Web Services Overview ................................................................................................10-2

Representational State Transfer (REST) ................................................................10-2

REST Characteristics .......................................................................................10-2

REST Verbs .....................................................................................................10-3

Web Service routing ........................................................................................10-3

Security ............................................................................................................10-3

AOS REST Implementation ............................................................................10-3

Output format ..................................................................................................10-4

Caching ............................................................................................................10-4

Web Services REST Examples .....................................................................................10-5

Query Structure ...............................................................................................10-5

JSON or XML .................................................................................................10-5

Response Elements ..........................................................................................10-5

Logout Example ..............................................................................................10-7

Create Table Entry Example - VLAN .............................................................10-8

Create Table Entry Example - IP Interface .....................................................10-9

Modify Table Entry Example - VLAN .........................................................10-10

Modify Table Entry Example - Interface Speed ............................................10-11

Delete Table Entry Example .........................................................................10-12

Query Table Info Example ............................................................................10-13

CLI Example .................................................................................................10-14

Using Python ...............................................................................................................10-15

Library Use ...........................................................................................................10-15

PYTON APIs - Quick Reference .........................................................................10-17

CLI Scripting ...............................................................................................................10-20

Quoting and escaping ...........................................................................................10-20

Variables and functions ........................................................................................10-21

Variables ........................................................................................................10-21

Functions .......................................................................................................10-21

CLI Tools .............................................................................................................10-23

awk ................................................................................................................10-23

OpenFlow Specifications ............................................................................................10-25

OpenFlow Agent Overview ........................................................................................10-26