diff --git a/core/api/src/main/java/org/onosproject/net/behaviour/ControllerConfig.java b/core/api/src/main/java/org/onosproject/net/behaviour/ControllerConfig.java
index 8de7d32..e1ec904 100644
--- a/core/api/src/main/java/org/onosproject/net/behaviour/ControllerConfig.java
+++ b/core/api/src/main/java/org/onosproject/net/behaviour/ControllerConfig.java
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
 import java.util.List;
 
 /**
- * Device behaviour to obtain and set controllers at the device.
+ * Device behaviour to obtain, set and remove controllers at the device.
  */
 public interface ControllerConfig extends HandlerBehaviour {
 
@@ -40,4 +40,15 @@
      */
     void setControllers(List<ControllerInfo> controllers);
 
+    /**
+     * Remove a list of controllers on a device.
+     *
+     * @param controllers a list of controller descriptions
+     */
+    default void removeControllers(List<ControllerInfo> controllers) {
+        List<ControllerInfo> controllersList = this.getControllers();
+        controllersList.removeAll(controllers);
+        this.setControllers(controllersList);
+    }
+
 }
diff --git a/drivers/arista/src/main/java/org/onosproject/drivers/arista/ControllerConfigAristaImpl.java b/drivers/arista/src/main/java/org/onosproject/drivers/arista/ControllerConfigAristaImpl.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..26b27f3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/drivers/arista/src/main/java/org/onosproject/drivers/arista/ControllerConfigAristaImpl.java
@@ -0,0 +1,135 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright 2017-present Open Networking Laboratory
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+package org.onosproject.drivers.arista;
+
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.JsonNode;
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.node.ArrayNode;
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.node.ObjectNode;
+import org.onosproject.net.DeviceId;
+import org.onosproject.net.behaviour.ControllerConfig;
+import org.onosproject.net.behaviour.ControllerInfo;
+import org.onosproject.net.driver.AbstractHandlerBehaviour;
+import org.onosproject.net.driver.DriverHandler;
+import org.onosproject.protocol.rest.RestSBController;
+import org.slf4j.Logger;
+
+import javax.ws.rs.core.MediaType;
+import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream;
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.InputStream;
+import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.List;
+
+import static com.google.common.base.Preconditions.checkNotNull;
+import static org.slf4j.LoggerFactory.getLogger;
+
+/**
+ * Sets, gets and removes the openflow controller configuration from a Arista Rest device.
+ */
+public class ControllerConfigAristaImpl extends AbstractHandlerBehaviour implements ControllerConfig {
+
+    private static final String CONFIGURE_TERMINAL = "configure";
+    private static final String OPENFLOW_CMD = "openflow";
+    private static final String REMOVE_CONTROLLER_CMD = "no controller tcp:%s:%d";
+    private static final String API_ENDPOINT = "/command-api/";
+    private static final String JSON = "json";
+    private static final String JSONRPC = "jsonrpc";
+    private static final String METHOD = "method";
+    private static final String RUN_CMDS = "runCmds";
+    private static final String VERSION = "version";
+    private static final String ID = "id";
+    private static final String PARAMS = "params";
+    private static final String FORMAT = "format";
+    private static final String TIMESTAMPS = "timestamps";
+    private static final String CMDS = "cmds";
+    private static final String TWO_POINT_ZERO = "2.0";
+    private static final String REMOVE_CONTROLLERS = "removeControllers";
+    private static final String ENABLE = "enable";
+    private static final int MAX_CONTROLLERS = 8;
+    private static final Boolean FALSE = false;
+    private static final int VERSION_1 = 1;
+
+    private final Logger log = getLogger(getClass());
+
+    @Override
+    public List<ControllerInfo> getControllers() {
+        throw new UnsupportedOperationException("get controllers configuration is not supported");
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public void setControllers(List<ControllerInfo> controllers) {
+        throw new UnsupportedOperationException("set controllers configuration is not supported");
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public void removeControllers(List<ControllerInfo> controllers) {
+        DriverHandler handler = handler();
+        RestSBController controller = checkNotNull(handler.get(RestSBController.class));
+        DeviceId deviceId = handler.data().deviceId();
+
+        List<String> cmds = new ArrayList<>();
+        cmds.add(CONFIGURE_TERMINAL);
+        cmds.add(OPENFLOW_CMD);
+        controllers.stream().limit(MAX_CONTROLLERS).forEach(c -> cmds
+                .add(String.format(REMOVE_CONTROLLER_CMD, c.ip().toString(), c.port())));
+
+        String request = generate(cmds);
+        log.info("request :{}", request);
+
+        InputStream stream = new ByteArrayInputStream(request.getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF_8));
+        String response = controller.post(deviceId, API_ENDPOINT, stream,
+                MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON_TYPE, String.class);
+        log.info("response :{}", response);
+
+        try {
+            JsonNode json = new ObjectMapper().readTree(response);
+        } catch (IOException e) {
+            log.error("Cannot communicate with device {} , exception {}", deviceId, e);
+        }
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Generates a ObjectNode from a list of commands in String format.
+     *
+     * @param commands a list of commands
+     * @return an ObjectNode generated from a list of commands in String format
+     */
+    private static String generate(List<String> commands) {
+        ObjectMapper om = new ObjectMapper();
+
+        ArrayNode cmds = om.createArrayNode();
+        cmds.add(ENABLE);
+        commands.stream().forEach(cmds::add); //commands here
+
+        ObjectNode parm = om.createObjectNode();
+        parm.put(FORMAT, JSON);
+        parm.put(TIMESTAMPS, FALSE);
+        parm.put(CMDS, cmds);
+        parm.put(VERSION, VERSION_1);
+
+        ObjectNode node = om.createObjectNode();
+        node.put(JSONRPC, TWO_POINT_ZERO);
+        node.put(METHOD, RUN_CMDS);
+
+        node.put(PARAMS, parm);
+        node.put(ID, REMOVE_CONTROLLERS);
+
+        return node.toString();
+    }
+}
diff --git a/drivers/arista/src/main/resources/arista-drivers.xml b/drivers/arista/src/main/resources/arista-drivers.xml
index 4298d9a..cae2995 100644
--- a/drivers/arista/src/main/resources/arista-drivers.xml
+++ b/drivers/arista/src/main/resources/arista-drivers.xml
@@ -18,6 +18,8 @@
     <driver name="restArista" manufacturer="Arista Networks" hwVersion="1.0.0" swVersion="1.0.0">
         <behaviour api="org.onosproject.net.device.DeviceDescriptionDiscovery"
                    impl="org.onosproject.drivers.arista.DeviceDescriptionDiscoveryAristaImpl"/>
+        <behaviour api="org.onosproject.net.behaviour.ControllerConfig"
+                   impl="org.onosproject.drivers.arista.ControllerConfigAristaImpl"/>
     </driver>
 </drivers>