Chapter 13: NSP component configuration

Overview

Purpose

This chapter describes how to specify the deployment criteria for NSP components that provide supplemental NSP functions, for example, NSP analytics, and are hosted outside the NSP cluster environment.

For component platform information such as hardware recommendations and scaling guidelines, see the NSP Planning Guide.

For platform configuration information such as preparing disk partitions or installing the RHEL OS, see Part I: Getting started.

Contents

Overview

Configuring NSP component deployments

Common configuration elements

NSP hosts file

NSP RPM-based configuration file

NFM-P deployment configuration

NFM-P deployment requirements

NFM-P deployment restrictions

Configuring an NFM-P system deployment

To obtain the UUID of a station

Using hostnames in the management network

Deployment in a VM

Enabling FIPS security for NFM-P network management

Workflow for FIPS-enabled NFM-P discovery of a new device

Workflow for NE conversion to FIPS mode

GPG-signed RPM files

To verify the GPG keys

To verify Nokia RPM-file GPG signatures

Common Access Card security

GUI client deployment

To configure a GUI client login form to list multiple NFM-P systems

IGP topology data source configuration

Configuring the IGP topology data source

To change the IGP topology data source