[TSC-144] GENIUS Flourine Release Details

Tue, 4 Sep 2018 20:25:23 +0000

Genius project provides Generic Network Interfaces, Utilities & Services. Any
ODL application can use these to achieve interference-free co-existence with
other applications using Genius. OpendayLight Fluorine Genius provides following
modules –

Interface (logical port) Manager allows bindings/registration of
multiple services to logical ports/interfaces
Overlay Tunnel Manager creates and maintains overlay tunnels between
configured tunnel endpoints
Aliveness Monitor provides tunnel/nexthop aliveness monitoring services
ID Manager generates cluster-wide persistent unique integer IDs
MD-SAL Utils provides common generic APIs for interaction with MD-SAL
Resource Manager provides a resource sharing framework for applications
sharing common resources e.g. table-ids, group-ids etc.
FCAPS Application generates various alarms and counters for the different
genius modules
FCAPS Framework module collectively fetches all data generated by fcaps
application. Any underlying infrastructure can subscribe for its events to
have a generic overview of the various alarms and counters

During Fluorine release cycle,

Considerable enhancements were done to ITM scaling, to support more number of switches
Support for datastore constrained transactions were added
CSIT was added for all the new features, including SRM and ITM Direct Tunnels
Some of the matured utilities from GENIUS were moved to a new repo called SERVICEUTILS, considering the need for their usage in other offset-0 projects including openflowplugin.

OpenDaylight JIRA

[TSC-144] GENIUS Flourine Release Details