To view Dashboard
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Choose Dashboard
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View the summary of all the managed ESC resources, notifications, system configuration and the system health.
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To view notifications
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Choose or Click the
notification icon on the top right corner of the portal.
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Displays notifications received on the Portal from ESC.
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To deploy a VNF
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Choose Deployments
Important
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To deploy a VNF in the VMware vCenter using a form, see Deploying Using a Form .
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Deploys a VNF.
The drag and drop feature allows you to grab an existing deployment data model and to re-use it by dragging the file to the
deployment table. You can even use the upload xml on the table toolbar, which allows you to browse appropriate file from your
file system.
Note
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Only xml files are accepted.
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The drag and drop feature executes a REST call as of now and does not execute NETCONF calls.
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To view existing deployments (for both OpenStack and VMware vCenter)
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Choose Deployments, and select a deployment from the table.
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Displays a high level summary of deployments
that are currently being deployed. You can view the name and status of the
deployments, and the number of VMs that are deployed in the deployment.
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To view VIMs |
Choose Resources > VIMs
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Provides a list of VIMs with its VIM id, the type of VIM, status of the VIM, properties and the VIM users. |
To view tenants (OpenStack only)
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Choose Resources > Tenants
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Provides a list of tenants, along with its name, description and ID.
Important
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ESC does not support multi-tenancy on VMware vCenter.
Portal does automatic rollback of resources if the resources failed to be created on the VIM. In some cases (because of conflicting
dependencies), the tenant has to be deleted manually after getting a rollback failure notification.
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To view VNF Images
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Choose Resources > Images
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Provides a list of images for the selected resources.
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To view VNF deployment flavors (OpenStack only)
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Choose
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Provides a list of flavors for the selected resources.
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To view networks
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Choose Resources > Networks
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Displays details of network, tenant name, network ID, network type and so on for each network. of sub-network and interfaces.
You can find details such as name, network ID, tenant ID and so on for each of them.
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To view subnetworks (OpenStack only)
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Choose Resources > Subnetworks
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Displays details of subnetwork, network ID, subnet ID and so on for each subnetwork.
Note
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Subnetwork and interfaces tabs are available only on OpenStack.
On initial booting of ESC VM, the network and sub-network creation forms may show an empty tenant combo box. Refresh the page
to load the tenants correctly.
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To view interfaces (OpenStack only)
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Choose Resources > Interfaces
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Displays details of interfaces, network ID, subnet ID, VM name and so on for each interface. |
To view the switch details (VMware vCenter only)
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Choose Resources > Switches
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Provides a list of switches, its names, descriptions, UUIDs and hosts.
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To deploy VNFs using a deployment template |
Choose System > Deployment Template
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Creates preconfigured deployment templates
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To view incoming requests to ESC
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Choose System > Incoming Requests
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Lists all the incoming requests to ESC such as Transaction ID and request details.
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To view configurations
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Choose System > Configuration
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Lists all the configuration parameters used for configuring VMs, monitoring rules, applying policies during VM deployments,
and so on.
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To view boot parameters (OpenStack only)
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Choose System > Boot Parameters
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Lists all the boot parameters used to boot ESC.
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To view host details (OpenStack only)
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Choose System > Host Details
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Lists the host details such as Operating System (OS), version of the OS, System uptime , RAM, Storage and other details.
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To view the health of ESC (OpenStack only)
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Choose System > Health
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Show the health of ESC, Confd status, Operational status and other details.
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To download logs |
Choose System > Logs
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Allows you to download log messages. |
To view the infrastructure details (OpenStack only)
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Choose Infrasctructure > Instances
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All VMs running on the virtualization infrastructure.
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To view the Hypervisors (OpenStack only)
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Choose Infrasctructure > Hypervisors
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All hypervisors running on the virtualization infrastructure.
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To undeploy a VNF
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Undeploys VNF(s).
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To view VDC (VMware vCenter only)
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Choose
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View list of all Virtual Datacenters.
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