How To Add A VPN-Proxy To MDVPN

In this example, we are creating a VPN-Proxy for SURFnet

Create a new table in the MySQL database called SURFnet_VPN_Proxy . The MySQL database is called md_vpn and is located on the prod-cacti02-vie-at-geant.net server

CREATE TABLE `SURFnet_VPN_Proxy` (

  `utc_time_stored` bigint(20) NOT NULL,

  `availability` smallint(6) NOT NULL DEFAULT '0',

  PRIMARY KEY (`utc_time_stored`)

) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1

Create a new data source in Cacti to store the BGP Peering Status, an example is given below:

http://prod-cacti02-vie-at.geant.net/cacti/data_sources.php?action=ds_edit&id=32008

When you click 'Add' you will be given a drop down of possible templates for the data source, select the relevant one and click 'create' this will then take you through to a form with several fields already populated including the Data Source Path.

Note: No rrd file gets created as output is sent directly to the SQL table

The Table Name in the data source has to match completely (it’s case sensitive)  to the Table Name in the MySQL database.

A row needs to be added to the msr_vpn_status_proxy table:

insert into msr_vpn_status_proxy (vpn_proxy_name,ip_address,nren_name,vpn_number,vpn_type,vpn_status) values ('VPN-Proxy Amsterdam','62.40.97.11','SURFnet','PRACE','L3',1);

The NREN name must match (it’s case sensitive) the NREN name of the new table that has been created.

Every 5 minutes, a cron job runs on the test-msr.geant.net server and executes /home/local/GEANT/dante.sanigar/scripts/mdvpn_status.sh. This calls a JAVA batch program called net.dante.md_vpn.MDVPNStatus.

This program gets the last status value from the <NREN_NAME>_VPN_Proxy tables and updates the msr_vpn_status_proxy table, with either 0 or 1.

Last thing is to update the /var/lib/tomcat6/webapps/mdvpn/ms_status_dashboard.jsp on test-msr.geant.net server to add the new table at the bottom of the page.

http://test-msr.geant.net:8888/mdvpn/ms_status_dashboard.jsp