OpenFlow Configuration Protocol: Implementation for the of Management Plane

Separation of data and control plane offers benefits of having programmability of the forwarding tables according to the needs of the applications. The need for efficient and effective management of network resources is crucial in providing effective control plane functionality to the applications. OpenFlow standardization efforts at Open Networking Foundation resulted in an OpenFlow Configuration specification to address the management of resources in OpenFlow-enabled switches. We report the implementation of the OF-Config 1.1 standard [revision - 25th June 2012] as softconf.d to retrieve and update the controller IP of an OpenvSwitch.