[ixpmanager] New install step by step

[Nishal Goburdhan]

On 16 Jul 2018, at 15:45, Vladislav Bidikov wrote:

> Hi team,
> Finally the time has come to use IXP Manager for IXP.mk…

congratulations on the IX  :-)


> I finished the install today - and found several bugs/problems...
> Also, i'm missing a step by step install meaning what needs to be 
> populated in which order...
>
> The current bugs located are:
> Bad link for ip addresses:
> http://prntscr.com/k7252v

going top to bottom:
* first, you’d need to add some infrastructure - like the name of your 
IX, in the infrastructure tab.
* then, you’d want to add the location of the data-centre (pretty 
self-explanatory).  you’re in more than one, iirc, so you can add each 
location in.
* then the rack/cabinet that you’re in, inside the data-centre at each 
location.

routers+console servers are optional at this point;  you can always add 
them in later.
but the IX is nothing without a switch, so this is important.  it helps 
if the switch is already online, and capable of speaking snmp;  let 
ixp-manager try to find that, through the management interface.  much 
easier that way.  do this for all the switches.  you’ll need to check 
first that your have some sample entries for switch vendors;  if you 
used the install-script this should have happened automatically.


> Missing VLAN:
> http://prntscr.com/k725hm
>
> VLAN definition:
> http://prntscr.com/k725vx

the VLAN that you’d want to start with, is the initial peering VLAN on 
the switches.  your VLAN definition looks ok, except, you probably 
don’t want to mark that as “private” since it’s the main peering 
VLAN, right?

> Any ideas on how to proceed ?

your address plan would then be tied to this VLAN;  ie. once you’ve 
populated the VLAN database with, at least, one usable VLAN for peering, 
you should be able to select this from the dropdown.  add in the IP 
addresses that you’ll be assigning to peers.  as a bonus, the latest 
version - 4.8.999 - makes it super intuitive (thanks! :-)) to add in 
IPv6 addresses.

once you have defined your switches, and gotten a basic address plan up, 
you can then add customers, and allocate them ports and IP addresses.  
of course your provisioning process might have different things 
happening (eg. putting peers into quarantine, etc) but that’s a very 
simple idea for a basic workflow.  don’t forget there’s a little 
work to do with MRTG to get that working, but it’s nicely written up 
in the documentation, so i’d suggest reading that first.

hth,
—n.