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+Connect
+=======
+
+The 'Connect' application on OpenDaylight provides up-to-date
+connectivity information about the wireless devices in the network. It
+automatically displays new network elements and their connection status.
+Despite the network elements usually automatically mount themselves, an
+additional small window allows manually mounting devices/mediators. For
+better understanding alarms and status, a connection status log lists
+all the connection status changes of OpenDaylight mount points.
+
+Views
+-----
+
+The graphical user interfaces is divided in three sections.
+
+Required Network Elements
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+Required Network Elements are physical network functions, which are
+planned or expected in the network. This means the identifier, IP
+addresses and its required configuration is well-known and available in
+a planning database or in ONAP A&AI.
+
+This view also offer to manually configure/mount the device with the '+'
+icon. The SDN controller will then start connecting the Netconf server.
+
+Unknown Network Elements
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+Most of the physical network function support an automatic registration
+procedure to the SDN controller. It may happen, that devices are
+connected to the SDN Controller but not available in planning data.
+
+It might be a normal occurrence for very cheap devices, where an entire
+planning process to too expensive. But is may also happen that the
+identifier used in planning process differ from the identifier currently
+configured in the device.
+
+Connection Status Log
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+The log lists the connections status changes between SDN Controller and
+NetConf servers (devices).