l.c.d.o.OpenNebulaNetwork(object) : class documentation

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Provide a common interface for handling networks of all types.

Network objects are analogous to physical switches connecting two or
more physical nodes together. The Network object provides the interface in
libcloud through which we can manipulate networks in different cloud
providers in the same way. Network objects don't actually do much directly
themselves, instead the network driver handles the connection to the
network.

You don't normally create a network object yourself; instead you use
a driver and then have that create the network for you.

>>> from libcloud.compute.drivers.dummy import DummyNodeDriver
>>> driver = DummyNetworkDriver()
>>> network = driver.create_network()
>>> network = driver.list_networks()[0]
>>> network.name
'dummy-1'

Unique hash for this network.

The hash is a function of an SHA1 hash of the network's ID and
its driver which means that it should be unique between all
networks. In some subclasses (e.g. GoGrid) there is no ID
available so the public IP address is used. This means that,
unlike a properly done system UUID, the same UUID may mean a
different system install at a different time

>>> from libcloud.network.drivers.dummy import DummyNetworkDriver
>>> driver = DummyNetworkDriver()
>>> network = driver.create_network()
>>> network.get_uuid()
'd3748461511d8b9b0e0bfa0d4d3383a619a2bb9f'

Note, for example, that this example will always produce the
same UUID!

@rtype:  C{string}
@return: Unique identifier for this instance.