Modify Pathfinder Settings From the GUI

Advanced

Sync Network Model

Click Sync to refresh the synchronization of the network model. You can use this option if the network model audit has unresolved discrepancies or if the information displayed for the model is out of sync.

When you sync the network model, this is what happens behind the scenes:

1. Information associated with the network model (nodes, links, LSPs, interfaces, SRLGs, and user-defined parameters) remains intact. Nothing is purged from the database.

   Note:

   Device profiles are not affected.

2. The network model is repopulated with live data learned from topology acquisition.

Table 2 describes the effects on various elements in the network when you reset or synchronize the model.

Reset Network Model

There are two circumstances under which you must reset the network model in order to keep the model in sync with the actual network:

• The node ISO network entity title (NET) address changes—This can happen when configuration changes are made to support IS-IS.

• The routing device’s IP address (router ID) changes—The router ID is used by BGP and OSPF to identify the routing device from which a packet originated. The router ID is usually the IP address of the local routing device. If a router ID has not been configured for the device, the IP address of the first interface (of the device) that comes online is used, which is usually the loopback interface. Otherwise, the first hardware interface with an IP address is used.

  If either of these addresses changes, and you do not perform the Reset Network Model operation, the network model in the Pathfinder database becomes out of sync with the live network.

When you reset the network model, this is what happens behind the scenes:

1. Information associated with the network model (nodes, links, LSPs, interfaces, SRLGs, and user-defined parameters) is purged from the database (so, we recommend that you do not reset the network model unless it is absolutely required, and that you perform this action only under JTAC supervision).

   Note:

   Device profiles are not affected.

2. The network model is repopulated with live data learned from topology acquisition.

Table 2 describes the effects on various elements in the network when you reset or synchronize the model.

Config Server

Settings

• publish-aslink—If you enable this toggle button, the ConfigServer publishes the AS link (created by the getipconf command) to Pathfinder. By default, this toggle button is disabled.

• update-topology—If you enable this toggle button, the config server adds new nodes and links (not discovered through BGP-LS) in the topology. If you disable (default) this toggle button, new nodes and links aren’t added in the topology. This parameter hasn't been tested in all environments and hence, configuring this parameter may not provide the desired results.

• include-interface-type—From the list, select one or more interface types that you want the ConfigServer to add to Pathfinder:

  • physical (physical interfaces)

  • loopback-mgmt (loopback and management interfaces)

  • vrf-if (interfaces associated with a VRF)

  • links-if (interfaces on links)

  • all (all interfaces)

  Note:

  ConfigServer publishes to all components only the interface types that you specify. The GUI and data collection receive information about the interfaces representing those interface types only. Later, if you modify this setting by clearing the previously selected interface types (that are already represented by interfaces in the Pathfinder model), the information collected for those interfaces remains in the model.

Log Destination

• name—Displays the name that is used to identify the log destination configuration.

• level—From the list, select the severity level of the log messages. The available options are:

  • emergency—The system is unusable.

  • alert—Immediate action is needed.

  • critical—Critical condition exists.

  • error—Error condition.

  • warning—Warning condition (this is the default value).

  • notice—Normal but significant condition.

  • info—Information message.

  • debug—Debug message.

  • trace—Trace message.

  • – (none)—No severity level.

Device Profile Adapter

Settings

redis-poll-interval—Specify the frequency (in seconds) with which the device profile adapter polls the Redis service for the Redis status.

Enter 0 or a negative value to disable this setting.

Example: 10s or 10seconds

Default: 5s

Log Destination

• name—Displays the name that is used to identify the log destination configuration.

• level—From the list, select the severity level of the log messages. The available options are:

  • emergency—The system is unusable.

  • alert—Immediate action is needed.

  • critical—Critical condition exists.

  • error—Error condition.

  • warning—Warning condition (this is the default value).

  • notice—Normal but significant condition.

  • info—Information message.

  • debug—Debug message.

  • trace—Trace message.

  • – (none)—No severity level.

Mladapter

Settings

polling-interval—Specify the polling interval (in seconds) for interfaces without notification support. To disable polling, enter 0.

Default: 3600

Log Destination

• name—Displays the name that is used to identify the log destination configuration.

• level—From the list, select the severity level of the log messages. The available options are:

  • emergency—The system is unusable.

  • alert—Immediate action is needed.

  • critical—Critical condition exists.

  • error—Error condition.

  • warning—Warning condition (this is the default value).

  • notice—Normal but significant condition.

  • info—Information message.

  • debug—Debug message.

  • trace—Trace message.

  • – (none)—No severity level.

Netconf Connection Controller

Device-Connection Pool

• Device-Connection Pool:

  • batch-size—Specify the maximum number of devices (per cycle) for which a NETCONF session must be established with the NETCONF connection controller.

    Default: 10

  • reconnect-delay—Specify the delay (in seconds) after which the NETCONF connection controller attempts to reconnect with the device, when the NETCONF session fails.

    Default: 30s

  • disconnect-delay—Specify the delay (in seconds) after which an attempt is made to disconnect the NETCONF session between the NETCONF connection controller and the device, when the session is migrated.

    Example: 250s or 250seconds

    Default: 300s

• Netconf:

  • keepalive-interval—Specify the interval (in seconds) at which the NETCONF connection controller periodically sends messages to the devices to ensure that the NETCONF session isn’t disconnected due to inactivity.

    Default: 0s

  • port—Specify a TCP port number to change the default port for NETCONF from 830. In some installations, port 22 is preferred.

    Default: 830

In-memory-Datastore

• connection-pool-size—Specify the maximum number of connections to be maintained, between the microservice and in-memory datastore, in the connection pool.

  Default: 5

• reconnect-delay— Specify the delay (in milliseconds) after which the microservice attempts to reconnect with the in-memory datastore, when the connection between the two fails.

  Default: 1000

• reconnect-retries—Specify the maximum number of times a microservice can attempt to reconnect with the in-memory datastore, when the connection between the two fails.

  Default: 1000

Infra

• Cache Memory:

  • max-reconnect-attempts—Specify the maximum number of reconnection attempts to be allowed between the NETCONF connection controller and cache-memory, when the connection fails.

    Default: 30

• Msg Broker:

  • max-queue-length—Specify the maximum allowed length of the queue used by the message broker.

    Default: 0

    If you use the default value, the queue is set without any maximum length.

  • prefetch-count—Specify the number of messages to be sent at the same time by the message broker.

    Default: 200

Network Data Backend

backend-connection—From the list, select either folder orin-memory datastore as the backend datastore from which you want to fetch the topology information:

• in-memory-datastore—If you select redis, the values that you configured in netconf-connection-controller > in-memory-datastore are applied, and those values are displayed here.

• folder-path—If you select file-system, specify the path to the network definition folder.

  Default: /opt/northstar/data/network_data/

Registry

• check-delay—Specify the delay interval (in seconds) between checking registered NETCONF connection controller instances in Redis.

  Default: 45s

• publish-delay—Specify the delay interval (in seconds) between attempting registration of NETCONF connection controller instances in Redis.

  Default: 30s

Rpc Service

workers—Specify the number of threads to be used by the remote procedure call (RPC) service provider.

Default: 10

Log Destination

• name—Displays the name that is used to identify the log destination configuration.

• level—From the list, select the severity level of the log messages. The available options are:

  • emergency—The system is unusable.

  • alert—Immediate action is needed.

  • critical—Critical condition exists.

  • error—Error condition.

  • warning—Warning condition (this is the default value).

  • notice—Normal but significant condition.

  • info—Information message.

  • debug—Debug message.

  • trace—Trace message.

  • – (none)—No severity level.

Netconfd

Device Connection Pool

publish-connected-device-status—Specify the interval (in seconds) for publishing the connection status of all the devices managed by netconfd.

Default: 0s

If you use the default value, the device connection status is not published.

In-memory Datastore

• connection-pool-size—Specify the maximum number of connections to be maintained, between the microservice and in-memory datastore, in the connection pool.

  Default: 5

• reconnect-delay—Specify the delay (in milliseconds) after which the microservice attempts to reconnect with the in-memory datastore, when the connection between the two fails.

  Default: 1000

• reconnect-retries—Specify the maximum number of times a microservice can attempt to reconnect with the in-memory datastore, when the connection between the two fails.

  Default: 1000

Infra

Cache Memory:

• max-reconnect-attempts—Specify the maximum number of reconnection attempts to be allowed between netconfd and the cache-memory, when the connection fails.

  Default: 30

• Msg Broker:

  • max-queue-length—Specify the maximum allowed length of the queue used by the message broker.

    Default: 0

    If you use the default value, the queue is set without any maximum length.

  • prefetch-count—Specify the number of messages to be sent at the same time by the message broker.

    Default: 200

Network Data Backend

backend-connection—Select the backend datastore (either folder or in-memory datastore) from which you want to fetch the topology information:

• in-memory-datastore—If you select redis, the values that you configured in netconfd > in-memory-datastore are applied, and those values are displayed in this field.

• folder-path—If you select file-system, specify the path to the network definition folder.

  Default: /opt/northstar/data/network_data/

Proxy

workers—Specify the number of threads to be used by the proxy service provider.

Default: 10

Registry

check-delay—Specify the delay (in seconds) between checking registered netconfd instances in Redis.

Default: 45s

Log Destination

• name—Displays the name that is used to identify the log destination configuration.

• level—From the list, select the severity level of the log messages. The available options are:

  • emergency—The system is unusable.

  • alert—Immediate action is needed.

  • critical—Critical condition exists.

  • error—Error condition.

  • warning—Warning condition (this is the default value).

  • notice—Normal but significant condition.

  • info—Information message.

  • debug—Debug message.

  • trace—Trace message.

  • – (none)—No severity level.

Path Computation Server

Settings

• ignore-rro-check—Click the toggle button to enable or disable the Path Computation Server (PCS) to ignore explicit route objects (ERO) and record route objects (RRO) during LSP initial node consolidation. By default, this toggle button is disabled.

• northstar-vpn—Click the toggle button to enable or disable Pathfinder VPN features in the PCS. By default, this toggle button is disabled.

• path-computation-state-timeout—Specify a timeout (in seconds).

  During stateful path computation for PCEP request (PCReq) and PCEP reply (PCReply), and REST API, the path computation state is held for the specified timeout (rounded to the next multiple of 5).

  If the user request or the PCC provisions the policy within the timeout, the already computed state and bandwidth are used. If the timeout expires before the user or the PCC provisions the policy, a new path is computed. After the PCC sends the PCReport (PCRpt), the LSP is reported with the computed Explicit Route Object (ERO). For more information, see Add and Remove LSP Delegation.

  Default: 10 seconds.

• lsp-latency-interval—Specify the frequency (in seconds) at which the PCViewer calculates LSP delay and display the data in the Tunnel tab of the GUI (Network > Topology > Tunnels tab > View > Delay).

• license-check-interval—Specify the interval for the PCS to check for the license (npatpw) file.

  Default: 3600s

• route-over-logical-SRLink—Click the toggle button to enable or disable the PCS to calculate a route over a logical segment routed (SR) link. By default, this toggle button is disabled.

• SRLG-provisioning—Click the toggle button to enable or disable the provisioning of shared risk link groups (SRLG). By default, this toggle button is disabled.

• provisioning-include-lsp-metric—Click the toggle button to enable or disable the PCS to include the LSP metric when provisioning the LSP. By default, this toggle button is disabled.

• Note:

  The PCEP reports the route metric for Juniper routers. For more information, see Basic LSP Configuration. You can set the route metric for an LSP and configure the global preference of Paragon Pathfinder from the Configuration > Network Settings > Pathfinder Settings > Path Computation Server page. However, for non-Juniper routers, the reported metric is the sum of the IGP metrics on all outgoing interfaces along a particular path from the source to the destination.

• round-trip-delay-on-remote-end—Click the toggle button to enable or disable (default) configuring the link latency at the remote-end router as the same value as the link latency at the local-end router. Link latency is equal to half the value of the measured delay, which is calculated as the RTT in one direction.

• disable-ecmp-tree-calculation—Click the toggle button to enable or disable the calculation of equal-cost multi-paths (ECMP). If you enable this toggle button, equal-cost multi-paths (ECMP) are not calculated. If you disable (default) this toggle button, ECMPs are calculated; if paths to a remote destination have the same cost, then traffic is distributed between them in equal proportion.

• disable-node-sid-calculation—Click the toggle button to enable or disable node segment ID (SID) calculation. If you enable this toggle button, SIDs for the nodes are not calculated. If you disable (default) this toggle button, segment IDs (SID) for the nodes are calculated.

• lsp-provision-queue-size—Specify the size for the LSP provisioning queue.

  Default: 50

• pcep-speaker-id—Specify the PCEP speaker ID to be used for P2MP flow mapping.

  Default: northstar

• zero-bandwidth-signalling—Click the toggle button to enable or disable the zero-bandwidth signaling feature. By default, this toggle button is disabled.

• ecmp-placement-method—Specify one of the following options as the ECMP placement method. After considering link metrics, if there are multiple ECMPs available, Pathfinder selects a path based on the value you specify here. If you don't specify a value, the first random path is selected for all the LSPs.

  Random—Pathfinder randomly selects one of the ECMP paths.

  Least Fill—Pathfinder selects the path with the maximum available bandwidth.

  Most Fill—Pathfinder selects the path with the minimum available bandwidth.

• monitor-mode—Click the toggle button to enable or disable the monitor mode in the PCS. By default, this toggle button is disabled.

  If you enable monitor mode, the PCS doesn't send LSP provisioning orders to the PCC. You use this option when you want to monitor the topology but don’t want the LSPs provisioned. If you disable monitor mode, the PCS sends LSP provisioning orders to the PCC.

• link-utilization-threshold—Specify the threshold value for link utilization. When traffic on a link exceeds this value, the controller triggers rerouting for label-switched paths (LSPs). If a threshold isn’t specified, the LSP is not rerouted. If 0 is specified, links are blocked.

  Range: 0 through 100.

• packet-loss-threshold—Specify the threshold value for

  packet loss on all links. If the packet loss on a link exceeds this value, the link is considered unstable, and the PCS triggers a maintenance event on the link. If you don’t specify a value or specify 0, the PCS doesn’t act in case of packet loss.

  Range: 0 through 100.

• reroute-minimum-interval—Specify the minimum interval (in minutes or m) after which the controller reacts to any traffic or delay violations. If you don’t specify an interval, the LSP is not rerouted in case of a violation.

  Range: 1m through 300m.

BGP Steering

• target-tag—Specify the target prefix for the programmable routing protocol process (PRPD) filtering community.

  Default: 42

• target-tag-cookie-range-start—Set the starting number for allocating path cookies. EPE static routes added by Pathfinder are allocated an unused path cookie starting from the value specified here.

  Default: 42

• steering-route-preference—Specify the relative preference value for the PRPD steering route. If you specify a sign (+ or -) for the value, the preference is considered the relative increase or decrease of the preference for static routes (relative to BGP routes). If you don’t specify a sign, the value is considered an absolute value.

  Range: -127 through 127

  Default: 1

• steering-aggregate-colors—Click the toggle button to enable the creation of a steering entry (per ingress prefix) that contains the route target with all the colors. By default, this toggle button is disabled.

  Note:

  This parameter hasn't been tested in all environments and hence, configuring this parameter may not provide the desired results.

In Memory Datastore

• disable-pipeline—If you enable this toggle button, the in-memory datastore pipeline feature is disabled (meaning, multiple entries are written to the in-memory datastore one by one). If you disable this toggle button, multiple entries are written to the in-memory datastore in a single operation.

• pipeline-threshold—Specify the buffer threshold value for the in-memory datastore pipeline.

  Default: 65536

Link Flap

• flap-interval—Specify the interval (in seconds) after which the link flap count is reset. If a link remains in the same status (Up or Down) longer than this interval, the counter is reset and the link is no longer considered flapped.

  Range: 1 through 300s

• flap-count—Specify the maximum value for the link flap count. When a link goes from Up to Down, the Path Computation Element (PCE) increments the counter on that link. When the counter reaches the maximum link flap count, the link is considered flapped. Flapped links carry a large penalty, so are not preferred by the PCS.

LSP To Path Computation Instance

• LSP Request Discriminator SR NodeSID:

  Instance-type—From the list, select the instance of the PCS that manages the segment routing (SR) LSPs tagged with Use node SIDs:

  • default—To choose the default PCS.

  • SRPCServer—To choose the SR PCS with anycast ID support.

• LSP Request Discriminator SR Test:

  From the list, select the instance of the PCS that manages the SR LSPs:

  • default—To choose the default PCS.

  • SRPCServer—To choose the SR PCS.

Segment Routing Policy

segment-routing-policy:

• originator-asn—Specify the originator Autonomous System Number (ASN) from which the segment routing policy originates.

  Default: 0

• originator-ip—Specify the IP address from where the segment routing policy originates.

Log Destination

• name—Displays the name that is used to identify the log destination configuration.

• level—From the list, select the severity level of the log messages. The available options are:

  • emergency—The system is unusable.

  • alert—Immediate action is needed.

  • critical—Critical condition exists.

  • error—Error condition.

  • warning—Warning condition (this is the default value).

  • notice—Normal but significant condition.

  • info—Information message.

  • debug—Debug message.

  • trace—Trace message.

  • – (none)—No severity level.

Path Optimization

Timer

Specify the frequency (in minutes) with which path optimization is triggered automatically.

Programmable RPD Client

Settings

• retry-interval—Specify the frequency (in seconds) with which the programmable routing protocol process (PRPD) client retries to connect with the PRPD daemon (on the router) after the connection between the two fails.

  Example: 60s or 60seconds

  Default: 30s

• top-prefix-filter—Specify how the top prefix filter is applied:

  • Onwards—Only the routes learned in the future will be checked against the filter and published if the routes meet the filter criteria; existing routes are retained.
  • Immediately—Existing routes are cleared and all routes (existing and those learned in the future) are checked against the filter and published only if the routes meet the filter criteria.

Log Destination

• name—Displays the name that is used to identify the log destination configuration.

• level—From the list, select the severity level of the log messages. The available options are:

  • emergency—The system is unusable.

  • alert—Immediate action is needed.

  • critical—Critical condition exists.

  • error—Error condition.

  • warning—Warning condition (this is the default value).

  • notice—Normal but significant condition.

  • info—Information message.

  • debug—Debug message.

  • trace—Trace message.

  • – (none)—No severity level.

System

In Memory Datastore

• connection-pool-size—Specify the maximum number of connections to be maintained, between the microservice and in-memory datastore, in the connection pool.

  Default: 5

• reconnect-delay—Specify the delay (in milliseconds) after which the microservice attempts to reconnect with the in-memory datastore, when the connection between the two fails.

  Default: 1000

• reconnect-retries—Specify the maximum number of times a microservice can attempt to reconnect with the in-memory datastore, when the connection between the two fails.

  Default: 1000

Messaging Bus

• reconnect-retries—Specify the maximum number of times a microservice can attempt to reconnect with the messaging bus, when the connection between the two fails; 0 indicates no attempts and -1 indicates infinite retries.

  Default: -1

• reconnect-delay—Specify the delay (in milliseconds) after which the microservice attempts to reconnect with the messaging bus, when the connection between the two fails.

  Default: 1000

• max-channels—Specify the maximum number of channels that can be multiplexed over a single connection between the messaging bus and the microservice.

  Default: 128

Persistent Datastore

• Persistent datastore settings:

  • connection-pool-size—Specify the maximum number of connections to be maintained, between the persistent datastore and the microservice, in the connection pool.

    Default: 5

  • reconnect-delay— Specify the delay (in milliseconds) after which the microservice attempts to reconnect with the persistent datastore, when the connection between the two fails.

    Default: 1000

• Log Destination:

  • name—Specify a unique name for the log destination configuration.

  • level—From the list, select the severity level of the log messages. The available options are:

    • emergency—The system is unusable.

    • alert—Immediate action is needed.

    • critical—Critical condition exists.

    • error—Error condition.

    • warning—Warning condition (this is the default value).

    • notice—Normal but significant condition.

    • info—Information message.

    • debug—Debug message.

    • trace—Trace message.

    • – (none)—No severity level.

Scheduler

device-profile-update-interval—Specify the interval (in milliseconds) after which the internal timer in the scheduler polls for device profile updates.

Default: 5000

Scheduler > Distributed Task Queue

• thread-pool-size—Specify the number of threads that can be run for the Device Collection task.

  Range: 1 through 255

  Default: 10

• collector-max-pool-size—Specify the maximum size (in bytes) of queues to be allowed in the distributed task collector messaging bus.

  Default: 524288000

Scheduler > Tasks

Collection Cleanup

• rollup-data-retention-duration—Specify the retention period (in days) for aggregated data. Enter 0d to disable the retention of aggregated data.

  Example: 800d or 800days

  Default: 180d

• raw-data-retention-duration—Specify the retention period (in days) for raw data logs. Enter 0d to disable the retention of raw data logs.

  Example: 10days or 10d

  Default: 14d

• interval—Specify how often (in days) the collection cleanup task is executed. Enter 0 to disable the cleanup task.

  Example: 7d or 7days

  Default: 1d

Demand Reports

demand-reports:

as-demand-bucket-size—Specify the maximum number of autonomous system (AS) demand report entries that can be stored in the bucket. This parameter isn't required currently but may be required in future releases.

Default: 100

Device Collection

• data-path—Specify the path to the directory for storing the data collected by the Device Collection task.

  Default: /opt/northstar/data

• enable-ptalk-logging—If you enable this toggle button, a ptalk log file is generated for each device that is part of the device collection task, when the task is run. You can view the log files from the /opt/pcs/log/ directory in the ptalkserver container and use the logs for debugging. If you disable (default) this toggle button, the ptalk log file isn’t generated.

• timeout—Specify the time (in seconds) after which the device collection task times out.

  Example: 3000s or 3000seconds

  Default: 1800s

• enable-update-device-profile—If you enable this toggle button, the device-type attribute is updated in device profiles as part of the Device Collection task. If you disable (default) this toggle button, the device-type attribute is not updated.

• ptalk-timeout—Specify the time (in seconds) until which the ptalk server waits for a response (to the ptalk request) from each device. If the server doesn’t receive a response from a device within the specified time, the ptalk request for that device times out. You must then increase the timeout period and re-run the device collection task for those devices. Default: 600s.

• purge-cutoff—Specify the purge cut-off period (in days). The device collection task deletes all files that are older than the cut-off period specified here.

  Example: 10d or 10days

  Default: 7d

File Transfer

• interval—Specify the interval (in seconds) at which the system transfers files from the active node to other cluster nodes.

  Example: 3000s or 3000seconds

  Default: 3600s

• paths—Specify the absolute directory path to one or more directories in other cluster nodes for transferring files from the active node.

Rollup

• interval—Specify how often the ESRollup system task is run (in hours). The ESRollup system task executes the esrollup.py script to aggregate the previous hour’s data. The ESRollup task is called from the Pathfinder server. You can view (but not modify) the rollup task on the Task Scheduler page (Administration > Task Scheduler).

  Example: 3h or 3hours

  Default: 1h

  Note:

  We recommend that you do not change this default value except to disable aggregation. If you want to disable data aggregation, set the value to 0h.

• max-worker-process—Specify the maximum number of worker processes that can be used for the ESRollup system task.

  Default: 4 or equivalent to the number of CPUs (whichever value is smaller)

• bulk-insert-record-count—Specify the maximum number of records in bulk, which can be inserted to the PostgreSQL database in a single operation.

  Default: 5000

Scheduled LSP Sizing

• stats-collection-interval—Specify the interval (in seconds or minutes) at which the native sensor collects statistics related to the LSP.

  Example: 30s or 1m

  Default: 1m

• Bandwidth Sizing:

  • stats-query-workers—Specify the number of threads that must be used to query the statistics from the native datastore.

    Default: 1

  • Log Destination:

    • name—Displays the name that is used to identify the log destination configuration.

    • level—From the list, select the severity level of the log messages. The available options are:

      • emergency—The system is unusable.

      • alert—Immediate action is needed.

      • critical—Critical condition exists.

      • error—Error condition.

      • warning—Warning condition (this is the default value).

      • notice—Normal but significant condition.

      • info—Information message.

      • debug—Debug message.

      • trace—Trace message.

      • – (none)—No severity level.

• Container LSP Normalization > Log Destination:

  • name—Displays the name that is used to identify the log destination configuration.

  • level—From the list, select the severity level of the log messages. The available options are:

    • emergency—The system is unusable.

    • alert—Immediate action is needed.

    • critical—Critical condition exists.

    • error—Error condition.

    • warning—Warning condition (this is the default value).

    • notice—Normal but significant condition.

    • info—Information message.

    • debug—Debug message.

    • trace—Trace message.

    • – (none)—No severity level.

SNMP Collection

• timeout—Specify the time (in seconds) after which the SNMP polling task times out.

  Example: 10s or 10seconds

  Default: 3s

• retries—Specify the maximum number of retries to be allowed for an SNMP poll.

  Default: 3

Log Destination

• name—Specify a unique name for the log destination configuration.

• level—From the list, select the severity level of the log messages. The available options are:

  • emergency—The system is unusable.

  • alert—Immediate action is needed.

  • critical—Critical condition exists.

  • error—Error condition.

  • warning—Warning condition (this is the default value).

  • notice—Normal but significant condition.

  • info—Information message.

  • debug—Debug message.

  • trace—Trace message.

  • – (none)—No severity level.

Topology Filter

Data Persistence

• persistent-storage-init-wait—Specify the wait time (in seconds) for a connection to be established between the topology filter and persistent storage before exiting with an initialization failure.

  Default: 45s

• file-store-path—Specify the default file path for storing output data of the topology filter if persistent storage isn’t available.

  Default: /opt/northstar/data

Messaging Bus

• reconnect-retries—Specify the maximum number of times a microservice can attempt to reconnect with the messaging bus, when the connection between the two fails. 0 indicates no attempts and -1 (default) indicates infinite retries.

• reconnect-delay—Specify the delay (in milliseconds) after which the microservice attempts to reconnect with the messaging bus, when the connection between the two fails.

  Default: 1000

• max-channels—Specify the maximum number of channels that can be multiplexed over a single connection between the messaging bus and the microservice.

  Default: 128

Persistent Datastore

• Persistent datastore settings:

  • connection-pool-size—Specify the maximum number of connections to be maintained, between persistent datastore and the microservice, in the connection pool.

    Default: 5

  • reconnect-delay—Specify the delay (in milliseconds) after which the microservice attempts to reconnect with the persistent datastore, when the connection between the two fails.

    Default: 5000

• Log Destination:

  • name—Specify a unique name for the log destination configuration.

  • level—From the list, select the severity level of the log messages. The available options are:

    • emergency—The system is unusable.

    • alert—Immediate action is needed.

    • critical—Critical condition exists.

    • error—Error condition.

    • warning—Warning condition (this is the default value).

    • notice—Normal but significant condition.

    • info—Information message.

    • debug—Debug message.

    • trace—Trace message.

    • – (none)—No severity level.

Log Destination

• name—Displays the name that is used to identify the log destination configuration.

• level—From the list, select the severity level of the log messages. The available options are:

  • emergency—The system is unusable.

  • alert—Immediate action is needed.

  • critical—Critical condition exists.

  • error—Error condition.

  • warning—Warning condition (this is the default value).

  • notice—Normal but significant condition.

  • info—Information message.

  • debug—Debug message.

  • trace—Trace message.

  • – (none)—No severity level.

Topology Server

Application

• use-live-rsvp-bw-over-configured—Click the toggle button to enable the usage of live RSVP bandwidth (obtained from the live network) instead of the RSVP bandwidth that you configured.

  By default, this toggle button is disabled.

• use-nokia-path-workaround—Click the toggle button to append a double colon (::) between the device name and routing path name strings for Nokia devices.

  By default, this toggle button is disabled.

• source-of-truth—Click the toggle button to modify network topology (add, modify, or delete nodes, links, and tunnels) when one of the deployment is down.

  Default: Disabled

• sync-topology-after-failure—Click the toggle button in the non-source-of-truth cluster to synchronize the topology without having to restart the toposerver pod when recovering from missing beacon in adisaster recovery deployment.

  Default: Disabled

• toposerver-beacon-interval—Enter the frequency (in seconds) with which the topology servers in different Paragon Automation deployment exchange beacons in a disaster recovery deployment.

  Default: 5s.

• use-unnumbered-interface-workaround—Click the toggle button to enable the usage of interface index (IfIndex) to correlate link events for unnumbered interfaces.

  If you enable this toggle button, IfIndex is not used for correlating link events.

  By default, this toggle button is disabled.

• use-prefix-link-matching—Click the toggle button to enable the usage of prefixes to correlate bidirectional links events.

  By default, this toggle button is disabled.

• do-not-publish-rest-updates—If you enable this toggle button, the topology server doesn’t publish object updates to the REST server. If you disable (default) this toggle button, the topology server will publish object updates to the REST server.

• do-not-suppress-beacon-message—If you enable this toggle button, the beacon messages will be written to log files. If you disable (default) this toggle button, the beacon messages will be suppressed.

• no-netconf-pathname-allocation—If you enable this toggle button, the topology server doesn't check for path names allocated to LSPs configured through NETCONF and also doesn't set the path name for the planned LSP. If you disable (default) this toggle button, the topology server will check the path names and set the path name for the planned LSP.

Application Tuning

• pce-beacon-holddown—Specify the time (in seconds) within which the topology server must receive a beacon from the PCE server. If the PCE beacon is not received within the specified time, the connection between the topology server and the PCEP server is marked as down.

  Example: 80s or 80 seconds

  Default: 90s

• resync-unresolved-node-threshold—Specify a threshold value for unresolved objects.

  During the discovery and updation of the topology, the topology server maintains a list of network objects that cannot be resolved to nodes. If the number of unresolved objects exceeds the threshold value specified here, a resynchronization is automatically triggered with the BGP-LS topology source.

  Default: 10

• lsp-topo-sync-timeout—Specify the frequency (in seconds) with which the topology server synchronizes the PCEP LSP database globally.

  Default: 120s

• pce-restart-holddown—Specify the maximum time (in seconds) until which the topology server waits, after the PCEServer starts, to request the PCEP LSP database.

  Default: 30s

• message-queue-low-watermark—Specify the low watermark for the messaging queue. If the number of elements in the messaging queue reaches the value specified here, the topology server resumes LSP provisioning.

  Default: 5000

• message-queue-high-watermark—Specify the high watermark for the messaging queue. If the number of elements in the messaging queue reaches the value specified here, the topology server pauses LSP provisioning until the number of elements in the messaging queue reaches the low watermark.

  Default: 500000

• message-queue-overflow-watermark—Specify the overflow watermark for the messaging queue. If the number of elements in the messaging queue reaches the value specified here, the topology server purges the messaging queue.

  Default: 0 (meaning no overflow watermark is set and thus, purging is disabled.)

• pce-watermark-interval—Specify the frequency (in seconds) with which the topology server checks the high and low watermark rates for PCEP messages.

  Default: 10s

• pce-high-watermark-timeout—Specify the maximum time (in milliseconds) that the topology server waits for the PCEP message rate to reach the low watermark, after which, it resumes the processing of PCEP messages.

  Default: 60000

• pce-high-watermark-rate—Specify the PCEP message rate to trigger the high watermark. If the PCEP message rate reaches the value specified here, the topology server pauses the processing of PCEP messages.

  Default: -1.0 (to disable the triggering of low watermark)

• pce-high-watermark-count-threshold—Specify the number of times the PCEP message rate must reach the high watermark, after which, it exceeds the high watermark threshold. If the count exceeds the threshold specified here, the counters for the received messages and for watermark are reset, and the pce-high-watermark-timeout is updated.

  Default: 3

• pce-low-watermark-rate—Specify the PCEP message rate to trigger the low watermark. If low watermark is triggered, the topology server resumes the processing of PCEP messages.

  Default: -1.0 (to disable the triggering of low watermark)

• pce-low-watermark-count-threshold—Specify the number of times the PCEP message rate must reach the low watermark, after which, it exceeds the low watermark threshold. If the count exceeds the threshold specified here, the counters for the received messages and for watermark are reset.

  Default: 3

Data Persistence

• persistent-storage-init-wait—Specify the maximum time (in seconds) until which the topology server can wait for a connection to be established with the persistent datastore. If the wait time exceeds the specified value, the topology server exits the topology server application with an initialization failure.

  Example: 10s or 10seconds

  Default: 45s

• network-snapshot-store-path—Specify the output directory in which you want to save a snapshot of the network topology.

  Default: /opt/northstar/data/network_archive/NorthStar

• file-store-path—Specify the default directory for storing event data files.

  Default: /opt/northstar/data

• debug-file-store-path—Specify the default directory for storing the debug output files.

  Default: /opt/northstar/data

• network-snapshot-store-interval—Specify the maximum time (in seconds) until which the network topology snapshot can be stored in the persistent datastore.

  Example: 3000s or 3000seconds

  Default: 3600s

• persist-lsp-topology-object—Click the toggle button to enable or disable the persistence of the LSP topology object in the persistent datastore.

  By default, this toggle button is disabled.

• do-not-persist-pcep-lsp-events—If you enable this toggle button, PCEP LSP events are not stored in the persistent datastore. If you disable (default) this toggle button, PCEP LSP events are stored in the persistent datastore.

• persist-pcep-pcc-node-events—Click the toggle button to enable or disable the persistence of PCEP node events in the persistent datastore.

  By default, this toggle button is disabled.

• do-not-persist-topology-advertisements—If you enable this toggle button, BGP-LS advertisements are not stored in the persistent datastore. If you disable (default) this toggle button, BGP-LS advertisements are stored in the persistent datastore.

• do-not-persist-provision-requests—If you enable this toggle button, provisioning requests are not stored in the persistent datastore. If you disable (default) this toggle button, provisioning requests are stored (in JSON format) in the persistent datastore.

• do-not-persist-lsp-events—If you enable this toggle button, LSP events (event description and object data) events are not stored in the persistent datastore. If you disable (default) this toggle button, LSP events are stored in the persistent datastore.

• do-not-persist-node-events—If you enable this toggle button, node events (event description and object data) are not stored in the persistent datastore. If you disable (default) this toggle button, node events are stored in the persistent datastore.

• do-not-persist-link-events—If you enable this toggle button, link events (event description and object data) are not stored in the persistent datastore. If you disable (default) this toggle button, link events are stored in the persistent datastore.

• do-not-persist-lsps—If you enable this toggle button, LSP data is not stored in the persistent datastore.

  If you disable (recommended) this toggle button, LSP data is stored in the persistent datastore.

  Note:

  We recommend that you do not disable the persistence of LSP data (that is, we recommend that you do not enable the toggle button).

• persist-topology-snapshot—Click the toggle button to enable or disable the persistence of the topology snapshot in the persistent datastore.

  By default, this toggle button is disabled.

• persist-demand-events—Toggle the button to enable or disable (default) the persistence of demand events in the persistent datastore.

  Note:

  For demand events to be persistent, LSP events should be persistent.

• persist-topology-objects-to-file—Click the toggle button to enable or disable saving the BGP Monitoring Protocol (BMP) events to a file in binary format.

  By default, this toggle button is disabled.

In-memory Datastore

in-memory-datastore:

• connection-pool-size—Specify the maximum number of connections to be maintained, between the microservice and in-memory datastore, in the connection pool.

  Default: 5

• reconnect-delay—Specify the delay (in milliseconds) after which the microservice attempts to reconnect with the in-memory datastore, when the connection between the two fails.

  Default: 1000

• reconnect-retries—Specify the maximum number of times a microservice can attempt to reconnect with the in-memory datastore, when the connection between the two fails.

  Default: 1000

Messaging Bus

• reconnect-retries—Specify the maximum number of times a microservice can attempt to reconnect with the messaging bus, when the connection between the two fails. 0 indicates no attempts and -1 (default) indicates infinite retries.

• reconnect-delay—Specify the delay (in milliseconds) after which the microservice attempts to reconnect with the messaging bus, when the connection between the two fails.

  Default: 1000

• max-channels—Specify the maximum number of channels that can be multiplexed over a single connection between the messaging bus and the microservice.

  Default: 128

• use-federated-exchange—Click this toggle button to synchronize the topology between two clusters in a disaster-recovery deployment. After changing this setting, you must restart the toposerver pod for the change to take effect.

  Default: Disabled.

Persistent Datastore

• Persistent datastore settings:

  • connection-pool-size—Specify the maximum number of connections to be maintained, between persistent datastore and the microservice, in the connection pool.

    Default: 5

  • reconnect-delay—Specify the delay (in milliseconds) after which the microservice attempts to reconnect with the persistent datastore, when the connection between the two fails.

    Default: 5000

• Log Destination:

  • name—Specify a unique name for the log destination configuration.

  • level—From the list, select the severity level of the log messages. The available options are:

    • emergency—The system is unusable.

    • alert—Immediate action is needed.

    • critical—Critical condition exists.

    • error—Error condition.

    • warning—Warning condition (this is the default value).

    • notice—Normal but significant condition.

    • info—Information message.

    • debug—Debug message.

    • trace—Trace message.

    • – (none)—No severity level.

Topology Acquisition

• retry-before-exit-count—Specify the number of times the topology server can request a topology refresh (after it connects to a BMP topology source) to obtain the topology that contains the links. If the topology server doesn’t receive the topology even after the specified refresh requests, it exits the topology server application.

  Default: 0 (meaning infinite retries)

• retry-delay—Specify the maximum time (in seconds) that the topology server can wait before requesting a topology refresh again (after it connects to a BMP topology source).

  Example: 30s or 30seconds

  Default: 5s

• reconnection-count—Specify the number of times the topology server can try to reconnect to the BGP-LS topology source before exiting the topology server application.

  Default: 0 (meaning infinite retries)

• reconnection-delay—Specify the maximum time (in seconds) that the topology server can wait before attempting to reconnect to the BGP-LS topology source.

  Example: 30s or 30seconds

  Default: 5s

• refresh-holddown—Specify the maximum time (in seconds) that the topology server can wait before requesting for a topology refresh after it connects to a BMP topology source but doesn’t receive the topology.

  Example: 100s or 100seconds

  Default: 300s

• eor-timeout—: Specify the maximum time (in seconds) that the topology server can wait to receive the topology from the BGP-LS topology source. After the complete topology is sent, the topology source sends an end-of-Routing Information Base (end-of-RIB or EOR) message that indicates the completion of topology update. If the topology server doesn’t receive this EOR message within the time that you specify here, an EOR timeout is triggered and the topology server sends another topology refresh request.

  Example: 15s or 15seconds

  Default: 20s

Log Destination

• name—Displays the name that is used to identify the log destination configuration.

• level—From the list, select the severity level of the log messages. The available options are:

  • emergency—The system is unusable.

  • alert—Immediate action is needed.

  • critical—Critical condition exists.

  • error—Error condition.

  • warning—Warning condition (this is the default value).

  • notice—Normal but significant condition.

  • info—Information message.

  • debug—Debug message.

  • trace—Trace message.

  • – (none)—No severity level.

IP nodes

Yes

No

Yes

Yes

Yes for design attributes, such as user-defined node name

No

IP links

Yes

No

Yes

Yes

Yes for design attributes such as Comment

No

PCC-controlled LSPs

Yes

No

Yes

Yes

No

No

PCC-delegated LSPs

Yes

No

Yes for PCEP attributes

Yes

Yes for non-PCEP attributes such as design flags

No

PCE-initiated LSPs

Yes

No

Yes for PCEP attributes

Yes

Yes for non-PCEP attributes such as design flags

No

Multilayer nodes

Yes

No

Yes

No

Yes for designed attributes such as user-defined names

No

Multilayer links

Yes

No

Yes

No

Yes for design attributes such as Comment

No

Interlayer links

Yes

No

No

Yes, links mapped to known nodes are re-sent.

Yes

Yes, access links to unknown nodes are lost and need to be recreated

Multilayer-derived facilities

Yes

No

Yes

No

No

No

Link-derived facilities

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Ongoing maintenance events

No

No

N/A

N/A

No

No

Future maintenance events

Yes

No

N/A

N/A

Yes

No

Ongoing scheduled LSPs

No

No

N/A

N/A

Yes (scheduled LSP is never terminated)

No

Future scheduled LSPs

Yes

No

N/A

N/A

Yes

No

Device profiles

No

No

N/A

N/A

No

No

Router latitude and longitude

No

No

N/A

N/A

No

No

Router grouping

No

No

N/A

N/A

No

No

Users table

No

No

N/A

N/A

No

No

Saved map layout

No

No

N/A

N/A

No

No

Events

No

No

N/A

N/A

No

No

Scheduled path optimization

No

No

N/A

N/A

No

No