Pathway to deploy the Simulation tool

Description

Use this pathway through the documentation to access detailed procedures for deploying the Simulation tool.

Note: Before you attempt to deploy an NSP component, you must review and comply with the deployment requirements and restrictions in the NSP Planning Guide.

Stages
 
1 

Perform procedure To install an NSP cluster to install an NSP cluster.

During the configuration phase of the installation, you must specify the following in addition to the other parameters that you configure; see NSP configuration file for information about configuring NSP deployment parameters:

  • Set the deployment type, as shown below

    nsp:

    deployment:

    type: deployment_type

    where deployment_type is one of the following:

    • live deployment—ip-mpls-sim

    • lab or trial deployment—customer-lab

  • Enable the Simulation installation option and disable NSP Platform - Logging and Monitoring.

    installationOptions:

    - name: “NSP Platform - Base Services”

    id: platform-baseServices

         - name: "NSP Platform - Certificate Manager"

           id: platform-certificateManager

    #    - name: "NSP Platform - Logging and Monitoring"

    #      id: platform-loggingMonitoring

    - name: “Simulation”

    id: simulation

  • Set the opensearch option in the logging section of the file to false, as shown below:

    Note: The opensearch option is set to true by default, so must be deliberately set to false.

    logging:

          forwarding:

            applicationLogs:

              opensearch:

                enabled: false