Hi Prasanna,
The limitation you have highlighted "enable network service providers without
actually adding the device" is not enforced by the NetworkManager but by the
design of the NetworkElement.
If you have not registered a device with the Netscaler NetworkElement it is
rejecting the Enable. The NetworkManager calls the NetworkElement isReady() and
that determines if it is ready to accept the call to Enable. I assume that
NetScaler NetworkElement code can not handle subsequent calls to Prepare() etc.
unless a device is configured.
I assume those other NetworkElements you have highlighted, have chosen to
return True on that call, and handle the subsequent calls e.g. Prepare(), when
there is not a device, my NetworkElement behaves this way so that it can be
enabled early when there is no device.
There is a design pattern to enable some Network Elements that offer service to
the Physical and Guest network in the call to createPhysicalNetwork() in
NetworkServiceImpl:
.......
// add VirtualRouter as the default network service provider
addDefaultVirtualRouterToPhysicalNetwork(pNetwork.getId());
// add security group provider to the physical network
addDefaultSecurityGroupProviderToPhysicalNetwork(pNetwork.getId());
// add VPCVirtualRouter as the defualt network service provider
addDefaultVpcVirtualRouterToPhysicalNetwork(pNetwork.getId());
// add baremetal as the defualt network service provider
addDefaultBaremetalProvidersToPhysicalNetwork(pNetwork.getId());
//Add Internal Load Balancer element as a default network service
provider
addDefaultInternalLbProviderToPhysicalNetwork(pNetwork.getId());
// add Infoblox as the default network service provider
addDefaultInfobloxProvidersToPhysicalNetwork(pNetwork.getId());
-Soheil
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From: Prasanna Santhanam [[email protected]]
Sent: Saturday, August 31, 2013 1:36 AM
To: CloudStack Dev
Subject: NetworkElements: configure the provider to enable the provider?
I'm looking to enable network service providers without actually
adding the device but it appears as if the addition of the device is
coupled with the enabling of the provider. While this is not the case
with default providers like VR, VpcVR, security groups and the
InternalLbVm?
What is the reason for the restriction placed on External
NetworkElements? In marvin integration tests [1] we want to be able to
enable the provider whilst deployment and later add VPX Netscalers per
test but this is not possible since the Netscaler provider cannot be
enabled during the deployment of CloudStack. The problem exists with
the implementation of other providers as well like JuniperSRX,
F5BigIp.
Nicira and Midonet however are always ready to be enabled.
I tried the following via API:
$add networkserviceprovider name=Netscaler
physicalnetworkid=0d1a18d5-837e-4973-8b06-ff1f3a8bdbfd
The netscaler element is registered successfully but disabled:
mysql> select id, state, provider_name, physical_network_id from
physical_network_service_providers;
+----+----------+-----------------------+---------------------+
| id | state | provider_name | physical_network_id |
+----+----------+-----------------------+---------------------+
| 1 | Enabled | VirtualRouter | 200 |
| 2 | Disabled | SecurityGroupProvider | 200 |
| 3 | Enabled | VpcVirtualRouter | 200 |
| 4 | Enabled | InternalLbVm | 200 |
| 5 | Disabled | Netscaler | 200 |
| 6 | Disabled | JuniperSRX | 200 |
+----+----------+-----------------------+---------------------+
6 rows in set (0.00 sec)
So I enable it using:
$update networkserviceprovider id=1a266697-838a-4322-b894-235bdc158da1
state=Enabled
Async job d830d7aa-2a1e-44a4-a736-4885a668e8a6 failed
Error 530, Provider is not ready, cannot Enable the provider, please configure
the provider first
accountid = e31a616a-1212-11e3-8a03-ef159ac306d1
cmd =
org.apache.cloudstack.api.command.admin.network.UpdateNetworkServiceProviderCmd
created = 2013-08-31T13:58:12+0530
jobid = d830d7aa-2a1e-44a4-a736-4885a668e8a6
jobprocstatus = 0
jobresult:
errorcode = 530
errortext = Provider is not ready, cannot Enable the provider, please
configure the provider first
jobresultcode = 530
jobresulttype = object
jobstatus = 2
userid = e31a7560-1212-11e3-8a03-ef159ac306d1
These steps feel counter-intuitive and the error message is a little confusing
too.
It says I need to configure the provider to enable the provider?
[1] https://reviews.apache.org/r/13889/
--
Prasanna.,
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