Introduction

SOS has been designed such that all configuration and interaction with the service can be done through a single point of contact -- namely the controller. The controller is the Floodlight OpenFlow controller outfitted with a special SOS module. All interaction is done over a REST API, which uses HTTP to facilitate high-level and well-defined data push and fetch.

By default, the SOS controller’s REST API runs at the controller’s IP on TCP port 8080. An HTTP client can be used to leverage the API. The popular utility curl is used throughout this document as an example HTTP client. For more information on curl, please refer to curl’s documentation. The following is a general example on how to use curl:

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