> 1. dumpConfig works like a charm. Thanks!
> 2. 
> http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/login.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6134525&url=http%3A%2F%2Fieeexplore.ieee.org%2Fxpls%2Fabs_all.jsp%3Farnumber%3D6134525
>  (Generalizing Virtual Network Topologies in Open-Flow based networks). 
> Basically it allows the flowvisor to provide a slice to users such that the 
> slice is not directly mapped onto the physical topology e.g. if we have s1 -- 
> s2 -- s3 then by using this proposal, a slice could only see(and control) s1 
> -- s3 and s2 becomes the part of virtual link.

This will be added sometime in mid-2013.

> 3. Ok. But do you know of any other GUI for managing flowvisor slices?

Sorry, for now I don't know any other options.

> 
> Regards,
> Salman
> 
> 
> Subject: Re: [openflow-discuss] Flowvisor Config Reverts on restart
> From: ali.al-shab...@stanford.edu
> Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2012 13:38:15 -0800
> To: salma...@live.com
> CC: openflow-discuss@lists.stanford.edu
> 
> Hi Salman -- responses inline.
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> I have few questions:
> 
> 1) Having deleted the default alice and bob slice, when I restart flowvisor 
> and start it with the same config.json file as before, I see that alice and 
> bob slice reappear in the config. Can someone suggest how to make the changes 
> to flowvisor configuration permanent i.e. persistent across flowvisor 
> restarts ?
> 
> If you pass the config file into flowvisor then the config is re-read from 
> the file, and therefore you see those slices come back.  It is better to 
> start fv without the config file, use fvconfig load <config-file> to load a 
> config file. Then use fvctl dumpConfig <config-file> to save the modified 
> file. That said, the config persists between runs. Also fvconfig generate 
> <config-file> initializes the config in fv.
> 
> 
> 2) Has the advanced flowvisor proposal been incorporated into the new 
> flowvisor ? If not, can someone point me from where I can get those modules ?
> 
> What proposal is this?
> 
> 
> 3) I have been looking for a GUI that shows the flowvisor slices. The closest 
> one that I could find was Expedient, but it seems that it works with GENI 
> aggregate APIs and one has to register for experiments on expedient's site to 
> use this feature. My question here is : can we use expedient as a standalone 
> service to get control of flowvisor on a local network ?
> 
> This seems like a GENI specific question, you should probably ask it there.
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Salman
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