Method for configuring network equipment by SDN controller and SDN controller

Abstract

The invention provides a method for configuring network equipment by an SDN controller and the SDN controller, the method comprises steps of enabling a user service module of the SDN controller to determine a service type ID, a service entity ID, a configuration interface and configuration parameters according to service requirements; issuing a first request message to an equipment configuration module corresponding to the configuration interface, determining a configuration ID, an equipment configuration service ID and a configuration template by the equipment configuration module according to the received first request message, and issuing a second request message; enabling the configuration issuing module to receive the second request message and issue configuration information to the corresponding network equipment; after the configuration information is successfully issued, when a configuration list matched with the index information is found in a configuration queue of the network equipment, updating the configuration list by applying the configuration information. The mode of updating the configuration queue ensures that the same service in the configuration queue only stores the latest configuration information, avoids the problem that the network equipment repeatedly configures the same service, and improves the recovery efficiency of the service.

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technical field [0001] The present disclosure relates to the field of communication technologies, and in particular to a method for configuring network devices by an SDN controller and the SDN controller. Background technique [0002] In recent years, SDN (Software Defined Network, software-defined network) technology has been widely used in various fields and various networks. The SDN controller manages network devices such as switches or routers (also called managed devices). The SDN controller can understand and abstract business requirements and convert them into specific configuration information and deliver them to network devices. The network devices can Use this configuration information to execute related services. In the process of delivering configuration information, the SDN controller also needs to save the delivered configuration information to the local configuration file of the network device, so that when the network device restarts, it can read the configu...

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However, since the configuration information is stored in the configuration queue in the order of delivery, there may be multiple configuration information of the same service in the configuration queue (that is, the service type and service entity ID of these configuration information are the same), During the configuration recovery process of the network device, if the configuration information in the configuration queue is followed, the configuration information will be delivered sequentially, resulting in repeated configuration of the service on the network device.

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