OpenDaylight has different techniques to authenticate different operations. Token-based authentication is used in the SDN production environment to control the lifetime of the authenticated operations in OpenDaylight. In this recipe, you will learn how to generate a token that can be used to authenticate OpenDaylight's HTTP requests.
Token-based authentication in OpenDaylight
Getting ready
This recipe requires a new OpenDaylight Beryllium distribution.
How to do it...
- Start the OpenDaylight distribution using the karaf script. Using this client will give you access...