[racktables-users] Re: Documenting VRFs in Racktables
- From: Olivier Contant <Olivier.Contant@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "racktables-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <racktables-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2014 19:40:08 +0000
Thanks for Sharing Lucas. That will be useful to anyone that need to find a
way to create a new type of object to support something custom and to be honest
before I learned to do it that way 1 month ago, I tried to code a plugins and
it was really a pain in the ass compare to this method.
So thank you for sharing, that would have saved me a lot of trouble and time if
I saw this before :)
Olivier Contant
System Administrator, Triton Digital
1440 Ste-Catherine W., Suite 1200 | Montreal, Qc, H3G 1R8
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[mailto:racktables-users-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Lucas Aimaretto
Sent: Friday, March 07, 2014 12:41 PM
To: racktables-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [racktables-users] Documenting VRFs in Racktables
Hi All,
We're using RT 0.20.4. In our network we have more than 1700 routers. All of
them al documented within RT.
At some point we wanted to document as well the VRFs that reside inside some of
those. Documenting VRFs is important since each of those have as well
interfaces and IP addresses and we're also taking care of the VPNs.
In order to do so, we did the following:
1) Create the VRF object
Main page : Configuration : Dictionary : Chapter 'ObjectType'
2) Once the object is created when then made a child of the type Router
Main page : Configuration : Object container compatibility
3) Once the object is created and assigned a parent, we created the attributes
RouteTarget (RT) and RouteDistinguisher (RD) and assigned those to the newly
created VRF object
Main page : Configuration : Attributes
4) We also allowed IP addresses to be included inside the VRFs. Just add the
object id to the parameter IPV4OBJ_LISTSRC inside the configuration.
Main page : Configuration : User interface
5) Once you create a new VRF then you need to select who is its parent. To do
so, you need to go the object's properties tab, and select the appropriate
container.
So, this mail was not written to ask any question or something, just wanted to
share with you something that might be helpful and is certainly making our life
easier. In any case, if you have a better approach, please share it with us.
Regards,
Lucas
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