Managing OpenFlow port groups

OpenFlow ports are interfaces of the overlay SDN that are automatically created at the same time as the SD-WAN interfaces. The SD-WAN Controller uses OpenFlow ports to control network traffic. Service interfaces and UNIs can be created on top of OpenFlow ports.

You can group OpenFlow ports and use the groups when creating M2M and P2M transport services. When you add a group of OpenFlow ports to a transport service, a service interface is automatically created on top of each port in the group, which in turn is used by the transport service. Using groups of OpenFlow ports eliminates the need to manually create service interfaces and add them to transport services.

To display the table of OpenFlow port groups, go to the Infrastructure menu section, click Management → Configuration menu next to the controller to which the device is connected, and in the displayed controller settings menu, go to the OpenFlow groups section. Information about groups of OpenFlow ports is displayed in the following columns of the table:

• Name is the name of the OpenFlow port group.
• Ports are the OpenFlow ports added to the group.

The actions you can perform with the table are described in the Managing solution component tables instructions.