Configuring the
MPLS VPN-Tagging Server

The
MPLS VPN-Tagging Server
, described in the
, enables
IP Availability Manager
to correctly represent in its repository certain overlapping IP-address configurations.
By default, the
MPLS VPN-Tagging Server
is configured to connect to an
IP Availability Manager
named INCHARGE-AM. You can edit the vpn-tagging.conf file to change this name or to configure additional
IP Availability Manager
s as sources for the
MPLS VPN-Tagging Server
. The object definition to be edited in the vpn-tagging.conf file is:
InChargeDomain::InChargeDomain_INCHARGE-AM {        Type = "AM"        DomainName = "INCHARGE-AM"        DisplayName = "INCHARGE-AM" }
The object definition serves as a template for specifying
IP Availability Manager
s as sources for the
MPLS VPN-Tagging Server
.
To change the default
IP Availability Manager
name, or to add an additional
IP Availability Manager
as a source for the
MPLS VPN-Tagging Server
:
  1. Go to the BASEDIR/smarts/bin directory in the
    MPLS Management Suite
    installation area and type the following command to open the vpn-tagging.conf file:
    sm_edit conf/vpn-tagging/vpn-tagging.conf
    The object definition to be edited in the vpn-tagging.conf file is:
    InChargeDomain::InChargeDomain_INCHARGE-AM {        Type = "AM"        DomainName = "INCHARGE-AM"        DisplayName = "INCHARGE-AM" }
  2. Find the section,
    Instances of AM Server
    , and go to the section below the comments and find the following object definition:
    InChargeDomain::InChargeDomain_INCHARGE-AM {        Type = "AM"        DomainName = "INCHARGE-AM"        DisplayName = "INCHARGE-AM" }
  3. Make the following edits to the object definition:
  4. On the
    InChargeDomain
    and
    DomainName
    lines, change
    INCHARGE-AM
    to the name of your
    IP Availability Manager
    .
  5. On the
    DisplayName
    line, change
    INCHARGE-AM
    to the name that you want to see for the
    IP Availability Manager
    in the
    Global Console
    .
    Example of a customized object definition for an
    IP Availability Manager
    :
    InChargeDomain::InChargeDomain_ASIA-AM1 {        Type = "AM"        DomainName = "ASIA-AM1"        DisplayName = "ASIA-AM1" }
  6. To specify additional
    IP Availability Manager
    sources, copy and paste additional versions of the
    InChargeDomain
    object definition, and then follow the directions given in step 3.
  7. Save and close the file.
    The modified version of the vpn-tagging.conf file is saved to the BASEDIR/smarts/local/conf/vpn-tagging directory.
  8. If the
    MPLS VPN-Tagging Server
    was running before you edited the vpn-tagging.conf file, restart the
    MPLS VPN-Tagging Server
    .
    At startup, the
    MPLS VPN-Tagging Server
    reads the vpn-tagging.conf file, loads the file’s configuration information to the repository, and attempts to connect to the one or more
    IP Availability Manager
    s that are specified in the file.
    The procedure for configuring
    IP Availability Manager
    for overlapping IP discovery is given in
    “Enabling overlapping IP address discovery” on page 77
    .