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To figure out what switch-ports are connected to the hypervisor hosts, the plugin uses one of the following mechanisms(based on user specification):
- LLDP information on the switches;
- user has to manually specify the traffic-label to switch-port mapping;
- configuration characteristics:
There will be property file which will have information mainly related to: - Details of Network-Director API application (like URL, Username/Password) in case of using Network-Director API;
- Details of Juniper switches (like IP Address, Username/Password) in case of using NETCONF directly;
- To specify whether the plugin needs to use LLDP to figure out the switch-ports connected to the host or manually specify the traffic-label to switch-port mapping;
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