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As stated in system architecture section, OpenNaaS supports different types of resources, and it can be extended to support other ones.A resource is the representation of a device in the software, and it is associated to a set of features which are represented as capability components. Capabilities are designed per resource type and are loaded for a particular resource if the ResourceDescriptor says to. However, most capabilities require a driver to interact with a real device and perform their actions. Hence, there is a relationship between resource types, capabilities and drivers which determines what kind of operations can be done with OpenNaaS to which specific network devices.

This relationship is illustrated in the compatibility matrix

 

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