Possible To Hide NSO Packages In GUI

[RyanWayno20056]

Hi All,

We have a NSO deployment using the stacked services model. As such we have a "Main" module and then multiple "Child" modules that actually build individual services:

Module_Main

  Module_Child

  Module_Child

  Module_Child

  ...

Currently when we make the modules and do a packages reload, all modules show up in the drop down in the NSO GUI. I would like to only display the Module_Main in the drop-down instead of all the child modules too. Is there some method to do this (hide the module, but still have it be functional as normal) like a flag or something I can set?

Thanks in advance for your help!

[joborglu · Accepted solution]

Hello, 

I am not sure which dropdown you are referring to. But in general, if you want to hide data you can use the yang attribute tailf:hidden a.k.a. hidden data and hidegroups.  The "hidden" statements is an extension defined in the tail-common YANG module.

e.g in the yang use: 

tailf:hidden hiddenthings;

A hide group can only be unhidden if the group is listed in the ncs.conf

<hide-group>
<name>hiddenthings</name>
</hide-group>

Then you can unhide the data in the current session, e.g. cli:

unhide hiddenthings

The data should be hidden in the webui, but currently there is no option to unhide it. The jsonrpc the method is called unhide_schema. If needed you can use curl to manually call unhide_schema in the current transaction.

/Jon

[RyanWayno20056]

Hi Jon,

Thanks very much for the reply, that does exactly what I needed and the package is no longer visible in the GUI after the change but still functions properly. To further elaborate for anyone else who may need the same thing, I implemented it like this:

list MY_LIST {
description "List that builds stuff.";
tailf:hidden no_gui;
key my_key;
leaf my_leaf {
  description "This is a leaf.";
  type string;
}

Inserting it where I did will hide the entire list, but you could probably hide smaller parts of the code with it if you needed to.

Thanks again for the help!