unhide kickers

[previousqna]

Hi Team,

In the 4.3.1 documents it says to unhide the kickers use:

Unhide Kickers

The top level container kickers is by default invisible due to a hidden attribute. In order to make kickers visible in the CLI, two steps are required. First the following XML snippet must be added to ncs.conf:

<hideGroup>

  <name>debug</name>

</hideGroup>

Now the unhide command may be used in the CLI session:

admin@ncs(config)# unhide debug

admin@ncs(config)#

Does this belong under the main config section or a subsection in the ncs.conf file as I get the following:

ad configuration: /home/jconnary/vpc_NSO4_3_esc2_3_0_project_bundle-1.0/ncs.conf:342: hideGroup cannot occur here as a child to 'ncs-config'.

Daemon died status=21

[jconnary@localhost vpc_NSO4_3_esc2_3_0_project_bundle-1.0]$

If I put it outside the ncs-config, then when I try to unhide I get that the group does not exist.

[previousqna · Accepted solution]

Please try following.

<ncs-config xmlns="http://tail-f.com/yang/tailf-ncs-config">

<hide-group>

    <name>debug</name>

  </hide-group>

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[previousqna]

Hi, 

hide-group instead of hideGroup (per documentation) worked great!

[previousqna]

Seems hideGroup is the format for confd... I will ask to correct the doc.

[plauda]

So I've been trying to follow this thread and use the 'unhide debug' in order to see the kickers. None of the combinations I've tried work at all. I always see ; Error: unknown hide group when I try #(config) unhide debug .

I'm looking at the dev guide, man pages and admin guide for 4.7 but nothing appears to work. 

Is there an unpublished update for this or has anyone got a solution for 4.7?

Thanks in advance. 

[yfherzog]

Make sure that you modify ncs.conf with the hide-group configs as mentioned on the thread.

Then, for that to take effect, you'd need to reload (ncs --reload) or restart NSO.

Then unhide debug should work.

If you did the above, the only thing I can think of for it not to work is if you modified the wrong ncs.conf file.

[plauda]

I used the -c FILE to do my startup as you said, it worked like a champ. Thanks for pointing out that possibility. 

Now if I could only find some good examples of kickers written in python :)

[vleijon]

There is a small example in examples.ncs/getting-started/developing-with-ncs/25-service-progress-monitoring that might be helpful (in the myserv package), they define a small utility function that I find illustrative in myserv.

[plauda]

Thanks for that! I'll have a look.