ENVI

An Extensible Network Visualization & Control Framework

The core OpenFlow GUI project is designed as an extensible platform which can provide the foundation of many interesting OpenFlow-related networking visualizations.  The user interface is capable of displaying both the network topology as well as custom controls.  Topology and network-related information can be queried and received from an OpenFlow controller – implementations are available as a simple Python library or as an easy add-on to existing NOX controllers.

How to Use and Extend

Information about how to extend this platform to build your own OpenFlow GUI is available here.

Source Code and Documentation

• Look at it: http://github.com/dound/envi
• Git it: git clone git://github.com/dound/envi.git
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You can open the project in Eclipse or NetBeans if you so desire. For Eclipse, go to File --> Import and select the of_gui/gui folder. For NetBeans, go to File --> Open Project and select of_gui/gui/nb_project. The included ant build file is in the of_gui/gui directory and can be used to build the project without either of these development environments.  If you are more console-oriented, run ant in the gui directory, then ant run.

Implementation-specific documentation is provided in the form of javadocs which are available online. The latest verson can be compiled directly from the project’s gui directory with the command ant javadoc. The documentation will be created in the of_gui/gui/doc folder.

This is an ongoing project – there is a to do list here.

Current Projects

Here is a list of projects currently building on this platform which are open for you to explore (links coming soon):