new NSO install 5-2-1 and struggling with NEDs and package reload

[marioderosa2008]

Hi team, i am new to NSO and im trying to follow labs and noticed that the cisco-ios package was not in my ncs-run directory...

I found the packages in my install directory as below...

cisco-ios-cli-3.0

cisco-ios-cli-3.8

these are the two packages i am trying to use... i copied them to the ncs-run directory in the /packages directory...

when i go in to NSO and reload the package... they fail with no error message so how can i find out what the issue could be??

mderosa@ncs# show packages package ?
Description: Show installed packages
Possible completions:
cisco-ios-cli-3.0 - NED package for Cisco IOS
cisco-ios-cli-3.8 - NED package for Cisco IOS
cisco-iosxr-cli-3.0 - NED package for Cisco IOS XR
cisco-nx-cli-3.0 - NED package for the Cisco NX
| - Output modifiers
<cr> -

mderosa@ncs> request packages reload force
reload-result {
package cisco-ios-cli-3.0
result false
info --ERROR--
}
reload-result {
package cisco-ios-cli-3.8
result false
info --ERROR--
}
reload-result {
package cisco-iosxr-cli-3.0
result false
info --ERROR--
}
reload-result {
package cisco-nx-cli-3.0
result false
info --ERROR--
}
[ok][2019-12-06 08:54:24]

please can someone point me in the direction?

This is a brand new fresh install of NSO 5.2.1... i followed instructions for performing a local-install

thanks

Mario

[marioderosa2008]

Interesting... i see Java is uninitialised...

mderosa@ncs# show packages package oper-status
PACKAGE
PROGRAM META FILE
CODE JAVA BAD NCS PACKAGE PACKAGE CIRCULAR DATA LOAD ERROR
NAME UP ERROR UNINITIALIZED VERSION NAME VERSION DEPENDENCY ERROR ERROR INFO
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
cisco-ios-cli-3.0 - - X - - - - - - -
cisco-ios-cli-3.8 - - X - - - - - - -
cisco-iosxr-cli-3.0 - - X - - - - - - -
cisco-nx-cli-3.0 - - X - - - - - - -

i will investigate that...

Mario

[Jason Belk]

Hi! 

Two things. Java and Ant are required for the application to work correctly, do you have them installed?

You can check as follows:

➜  ~ java --version
openjdk 13.0.1 2019-10-15
OpenJDK Runtime Environment AdoptOpenJDK (build 13.0.1+9)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM AdoptOpenJDK (build 13.0.1+9, mixed mode, sharing)
➜  ~ ant -v
Apache Ant(TM) version 1.10.7 compiled on September 1 2019

Also you only need one of the two cisco-ios packages. I would pick the newer one cisco-ios-cli-3.8.

You should not need to recompile them if they come with the NSO installation (which those appear to be).

You should be able to just put them in the nso-run/packages folder and run a packages reload force. 

One other thing I see is that you are logged in as your local computer user into NSO "mderosa@ncs", rather than a user which has admin access to the application. The default user for NSO local install is admin. You can login as admin by doing 

ncs_cli -C -u admin

instead of just doing

ncs_cli -C

The -C gives you the Cisco style CLI (if you don't have it it is Junos style).