Configuring the MPLS VPN-Tagging Server
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
:- Go to the BASEDIR/smarts/bin directory in theMPLS Management Suiteinstallation area and type the following command to open the vpn-tagging.conf file:sm_edit conf/vpn-tagging/vpn-tagging.confThe object definition to be edited in the vpn-tagging.conf file is:InChargeDomain::InChargeDomain_INCHARGE-AM { Type = "AM" DomainName = "INCHARGE-AM" DisplayName = "INCHARGE-AM" }
- 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" }
- Make the following edits to the object definition:
- On theInChargeDomainandDomainNamelines, changeINCHARGE-AMto the name of yourIP Availability Manager.
- On theDisplayNameline, changeINCHARGE-AMto the name that you want to see for theIP Availability Managerin theGlobal Console.Example of a customized object definition for anIP Availability Manager:InChargeDomain::InChargeDomain_ASIA-AM1 { Type = "AM" DomainName = "ASIA-AM1" DisplayName = "ASIA-AM1" }
- To specify additionalIP Availability Managersources, copy and paste additional versions of theInChargeDomainobject definition, and then follow the directions given in step 3.
- 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.
- If theMPLS VPN-Tagging Serverwas running before you edited the vpn-tagging.conf file, restart theMPLS VPN-Tagging Server.At startup, theMPLS VPN-Tagging Serverreads the vpn-tagging.conf file, loads the file’s configuration information to the repository, and attempts to connect to the one or moreIP Availability Managers that are specified in the file.The procedure for configuringIP Availability Managerfor overlapping IP discovery is given in“Enabling overlapping IP address discovery” on page 77.