[ixpmanager] Route Server Installation

[Fabiano D'Agostino]

Hi all,
but so this script:
https://github.com/inex/IXP-Manager/blob/master/tools/runtime/route-servers
/api-reconfigure-example-birdv2.sh
generates the bird.conf?

I mean how does IXP Manager generate the bird.conf such as understanding
which are the BGP peering?

Thanks,

Fabiano

Il giorno lun 30 mar 2020 alle ore 12:04 Barry O'Donovan <
barry.odonovan at inex.ie> ha scritto:

> Hi Sam,
>
> Sam Malyon wrote on 29/03/2020 15:34:
> > I’m having issues installing the route server as I have never actually
> > used Bird before.
> >
> > So I have completed the router config on IXP Manager (Excluding the API
> > details). And installed bird using “apt-get install bird” but after that
> > I have no idea how to connect it to IXP Manager. I haven’t yet installed
> > Birdseye.
> >
> > Any Suggestions on what I should do here as I’m lost?
>
> Bird as a route server and Birdseye are separate components and you do
> not /need/ to install Birdseye but we would strongly recommend it. You
> should have a look at some of out talks from 2019 on this stuff at:
>
> https://www.ixpmanager.org/presentations
>
> The one from UKNOF is probably the most recent and best (although the
> slides didn't work at the beginning which is why it's a bit rough there
> 😉).
>
> IXP Manager will configure Bird for three purposes: route servers, route
> collectors and an AS112 service. As such, the documentation is split a
> little. The most important one is:
>
> https://docs.ixpmanager.org/features/routers/
>
> and particularly the section 'Configuration Generation Overview'.
>
> Then you should look at the route server specific stuff on:
>
> https://docs.ixpmanager.org/features/route-servers/
>
> I take it from your offlist email that you have Bird installed and
> you're trying to figure out out it connects to IXP Manager. That is
> covered in the specific section I mentioned above. We have sample
> scripts for this which you can find here:
>
> https://github.com/inex/IXP-Manager/tree/master/tools/runtime/route-servers
>
> and specifically:
>
>
> https://github.com/inex/IXP-Manager/blob/master/tools/runtime/route-servers/api-reconfigure-example-birdv2.sh
>
>
> You will need to download that to your route server and then edit the
> settings at the top:
>
> KEY="your-api-key"
> URL="https://ixp.example.com/ixp/api/v4/router/gen-config"
> URL_DONE="https://ixp.example.com/ixp/api/v4/router/updated"
> ETCPATH="/usr/local/etc/bird"
> RUNPATH="/var/run/bird"
> LOGPATH="/var/log/bird"
> BIN="/usr/sbin/bird"
>
> You can create an API key per:
>
> https://docs.ixpmanager.org/features/api/
>
> The URLs reflect wherever the script can access IXP Manager via http(s).
>
> Once that's all set, you can run it in debugging mode via:
>
> bash ./api-reconfigure-example-birdv2.sh -d <handle>
>
> where '<handle>' is the handle you gave the route server when adding it
> via the form in IXP Manager. E.g.
>
> bash ./api-reconfigure-example-birdv2.sh -d rs1-ipv4
>
>
> Once you have the route server running, you can then turn to Birdseye
> which integrates into IXP Manager for monitoring and looking glass
> features. That's documented at:
>
> https://docs.ixpmanager.org/features/looking-glass/
>
> https://github.com/inex/birdseye/blob/master/README.md
>
>
>   - Barry
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