F5 with multiple partitions in NSO

[tcragg1]

I'm looking to manage F5 proxies with multiple partitions using NSO. By default NSO appears to only be aware of configuration within the /Common partition. I know I can change the default partition it looks at under the ned-settings, but is it possible to have it manage multiple partitions of an F5 under a single device within NSO, and if so, what is the syntax I need for the partition command to do this?

[payal.singh@f5.com]

For the F5 NED on NSO, you can create partitions but not manage different partitions, if this feature is needed it would have to be a request to be added to NED.

Running the following CLI provides information only about Virtual's in the /Common partition and not other partitions so I would have to say the NED does not have visibility into what is configured in other partitions right now

- show running-config devices device <device_name> config bigip:ltm virtual

[rogaglia · Accepted solution]

Hi Payal,

NSO does support multiple partitions using different NSO devices and setting up the partition name in the ned-settings as the original post request. This information is on the NED's README file.

Regards,

Roque

[rogaglia]

Hi,Just to understand what you are looking for, why would using different devices be an issue?We use the same design for a number of load balancer/firewalls that after we had developed the NED data model came up with the concept of virutal/partition structures. This design allowed us to be "backward compatible".The only time that I saw some issues was if I tried to create a partition and configure it in the same transaction but that is an imaginary exercise.Roque

[tcragg1]

Hi Roque,

It's not really an issue, I was just wondering because I saw an option under the ned-settings developer-options for "multi-partition-check-sync", which made me think there was a way to do it without splitting the configuration into separate devices. If there isn't a way to do it, multiple devices should be fine for what we need.

Thanks,

Tim