VLAN groups are required to create a VLAN service. VLAN groups are used by OmniSwitch and Wavence devices to:

• logically group OmniSwitch and Wavence devices to represent a typical network topology.

• manage the VLAN IDs that are assigned to Wavence VLAN group members

VLAN group creation parameters

• method - generic.GenericObject.configureChildInstance

• distinguishedName - group:${groupTypeManaged}

• childConfigInfo - creates and configures the following parameters:

  • Group object - netw.VlanGroup

  • actionMask - specifies the create operation

  • <groupName> - assigns a unique name for the group

Figure 19-18: VLAN group creation request example

<generic.GenericObject.configureChildInstance xmlns="xmlapi_1.0">   <deployer>immediate</deployer>   <synchronousDeploy>true</synchronousDeploy>   <distinguishedName>group:tree</distinguishedName>   <childConfigInfo>      <netw.VlanGroup>         <actionMask>            <bit>create</bit>         </actionMask>         <groupName/>          ..      </netw.VlanGroup>   </childConfigInfo></generic.GenericObject.configureChildInstance>