Is there a F5-bigip NED that can be used in ncs-netsim?

[ssmichok]

Is there a F5-bigip NED that can be used in ncs-netsim?

[alam.bilal]

There is a F5 BIGIP NED. I'm not sure if it supports NETSIM. This can be quickly tried out. Check if there is a "netsim" directory in the NED's folder. Subsequently the following can be tried:

ncs-netsim create-network packages/f5-bigip 2 f5n

ncs-netsim start

ncs-netsim cli f5n0

If a netsim does not exist or is broken then a ticket can be raised and Engineering can evaluate whether a NETSIM makes sense and whether it can be built.

[ssmichok]

Thank you, Bilal.

Unfortunately, I knew that already ☹.

I was hoping someone already has the NED that supports netsim….

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[rogaglia · Accepted solution]

Hi,

The F5BIGIP is a generic NED. For CLI and NETCONF NEDs, it is very simple to create NETSIM devices and to recreate the real device configuration "on the wire".

For Generic NEDs, the situation is different. As we cannot re-create the messages "on the wire", what we can do to facilitate development and testing is to create a simil NETCONF NED. This means that you take the same YANG module from your NED and you create NETCONF devices that support these modules (although you may need to edit it to remove some tail-f extensions).

Using a NETCONF NETSIM device, you will be able to develop and test your services. The one main difference is that the command "commit dry-run outformat native" will have a different output.

You can create these NETCONF NETSIM devices yourself without waiting for the a NED improvement.

Roque