Caution
The OpenContrail versions support status:
OpenContrail 4.1 is fully supported.
OpenContrail 4.0 is deprecated and not supported for new deployments since MCP maintenance update 2019.2.4.
OpenContrail 3.2 is not supported for new deployments.
The tables in this section describe the OpenContrail 3.2 services and their distribution across the MCP cluster nodes.
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Communicates with the cluster gateways using BGP and with the vRouter agents using XMPP as well as redistributes appropriate networking information. |
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Collects the OpenContrail controller process data and sends
this information to the OpenContrail |
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Using the |
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This is the customized Berkeley Internet Name Domain (BIND) daemon of
OpenContrail that manages DNS zones for the |
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Consists of the |
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Removed in OpenContrail 4.x. The |
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Service description |
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Exposes a REST-based interface for the OpenContrail API. |
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Collects data of the OpenContrail configuration processes and sends it
to the OpenContrail |
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Manages physical networking devices using |
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Removed in OpenContrail 4.x. Acts as a registry for all OpenContrail services. |
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Listens to configuration changes done by a user and generates corresponding system configuration objects. In multi-node deployments, it works in the active/backup mode. |
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Listens to configuration changes of |
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Service description |
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Evaluates and manages the alarms rules. |
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Provides a REST API to interact with the Cassandra analytics database. |
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Collects all OpenContrail analytics process data and sends
this information to the OpenContrail |
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Collects and analyzes data from all OpenContrail services. |
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Handles the queries to access data from the Cassandra database. |
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Receives the authorization and configuration of the physical routers
from the |
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Reads the SNMP information from the physical router user-visible entities (UVEs), creates a neighbor list, and writes the neighbor information to the physical router UVEs. The OpenContrail web UI uses the neighbor list to display the physical topology. |
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Service description |
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Manages the Cassandra database information. |
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Collects data of the |
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Handles the messaging bus and generates alarms across the OpenContrail analytics nodes. |
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Service description |
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On the OpenContrail network nodes, maintains the configuration data
of the OpenContrail cluster.
On the OpenContrail analytics nodes, stores the |
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Stores the physical router UVE storage and serves as a messaging bus for event notifications. |
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Holds the active/backup status for the |
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Service description |
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Connects to the OpenContrail controller node and the OpenContrail DNS system using the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP). |
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Collects the supervisor |
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The Neutron server that includes the OpenContrail plugin. |