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The following patch introduces the NeutronClient extension of tap-as-a-service, thus integrating TAAS with the python-neutronclient. Change-Id: I8ce10e3001c46e24980dc701540cca8e837c3700 Closes-Bug: #1517357 Depends-On: I41fb7b538c81eba848b78c071edaf806663063a1
Tap as a Service
Tap-as-a-Service (TaaS) is an extension to the OpenStack network service (Neutron). It provides remote port mirroring capability for tenant virtual networks.
Port mirroring involves sending a copy of packets entering and/or leaving one port to another port, which is usually different from the original destinations of the packets being mirrored.
This service has been primarily designed to help tenants (or the cloud administrator) debug complex virtual networks and gain visibility into their VMs, by monitoring the network traffic associated with them. TaaS honors tenant boundaries and its mirror sessions are capable of spanning across multiple compute and network nodes. It serves as an essential infrastructure component that can be utilized for supplying data to a variety of network analytics and security applications (e.g. IDS).
- Free software: Apache license
- API Reference: https://github.com/stackforge/tap-as-a-service/blob/master/API_REFERENCE.rst
- Source: https://git.openstack.org/stackforge/tap-as-a-service
- Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/tap-as-a-service
For installing Tap-as-a-Service with Devstack please read the INSTALL.rst file