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Hi Yuling,

The Name of the database is not important. In other words, they are the
same database with different names.

--Robert

On 5/14/13 8:42 PM, "Rich Curran (rcurran)" <rcurran at cisco.com> wrote:

>Hi Yuling -
>
>Are you now using either an external nexus switch and/or the Nexus 1000
>in your topology?
>If not then I don't know why you would enable Q_PLUGIN=cisco in
>devstack's localrc.
>
>But if you want to move forward regardless of available Cisco devices
>then you would have to follow the instructions listed in that web link
>below or you can add some additional information to the localrc file.
>Robert has put this info on a Cisco internal webpage so I'll cut/paste
>here. At some point (if he hasn't already) we should add this info to the
>devstack.org documentation.
>=====================================================
>Customization in localrc
>
>In addition to existing DevStack variables, DevStack with Cisco plugin
>supports the following bash variables that can be defined in localrc.
>declare -a Q_CISCO_PLUGIN_SUBPLUGINS 	
>
>Supported values are:
>    (openvswitch)
>    (openvswitch nexus)
>    (n1kv)
>    (n1kv nexus)
>
>Defines the subplugins that will be deployed with this DevStack. For
>example:
>
>declare -a Q_CISCO_PLUGIN_SUBPLUGINS=(openvswitch nexus)
>------------------------------------------------------
>declare -A Q_CISCO_PLUGIN_SWITCH_INFO 	
>
>The value has the following format:
> 
>({<switch_ip>=<username>:<password>:<ssh_port>[:<compute-host-name>:<nexus
>-port-connected-with>] })
>
>Defines the nexus switch information used in the deployment. This is a
>bash associative array with nexus switch ip addresses as keys.
>Essentially, it defines the switch's access information, and the compute
>hosts that are connected to the switch. An example looks like
>             declare -A Q_CISCO_PLUGIN_SWITCH_INFO=
>([1.1.1.1]=admin:mySecretPassword:22:compute1:1/1:compute2:1/2)
>
>If Q_CISCO_PLUGIN_SWITCH_INFO is not defined in localrc, it assumes no
>switch is used in the deployment. In that case, if the nexus subplugin is
>deployed (as indicated by the Q_CISCO_PLUGIN_SUBPLUGINS array), a fake
>switch (with a fake driver) will be deployed.
>
>**** - Note - since you're not using any cisco devices I wouldn't declare
>this variable and have the fake nexus driver configured.
>======================================================
>Thanks,
>Rich
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Yuling_C at DELL.com [mailto:Yuling_C at DELL.com]
>Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2013 5:52 PM
>To: Rich Curran (rcurran); openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org
>Subject: RE: [openstack-dev] FW: how to configure cisco plugin in
>devstack environment
>
>Hi Rich,
>
>I was able to use Robert's file of lib/quantum_plugins/cisco to run cisco
>plugin in devstack environment. However, I'm not sure if everything was
>set up correctly in my environment. I thought this configuration using
>Q_plugin=cisco in localrc would set up exactly the same environment as
>what the instructions on the following attached link describes. However,
>I was not able to see the 'quantum_l2network' database at all. All I saw
>was database 'cisco_quantum'.  Is there anything wrong in my set up?
>Should I see 'quantum_l2network' at all?
> 
>https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Cisco-quantum#A_Cisco_Plugin_Framework_for
>_Quantum_L2_Network_Overlays_Spanning_Multiple_Physical_Switches_.28Havana
>_Release.29
>
>Thanks,
>
>YuLing
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: C, Yuling
>Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2013 11:40 AM
>To: 'Rich Curran (rcurran)'; OpenStack Development Mailing List
>Subject: RE: [openstack-dev] FW: how to configure cisco plugin in
>devstack environment
>
>B.T.W.,  I'm not planning to use a Nexus switch in my testing environment
>for now...just would like to use the fake driver to see how it
>goes...will plugin a real switch later:-)
>
>Thanks very much,
>
>YuLing
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Rich Curran (rcurran) [mailto:rcurran at cisco.com]
>Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2013 11:13 AM
>To: OpenStack Development Mailing List; C, Yuling
>Subject: RE: [openstack-dev] FW: how to configure cisco plugin in
>devstack environment
>
>HI Yuling -
>
>Actually if you change the localrc as described below you won't have to
>install configobj (I don't think).
>So change the localrc first, unstack, stack. I don't think at that point
>you'll have the configobj issue.
>
>Thanks,
>Rich
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Rich Curran (rcurran)
>Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2013 2:09 PM
>To: Yuling_C at DELL.com; openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org
>Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] FW: how to configure cisco plugin in
>devstack environment
>
>Hi Yuling -
>
>Here are instructions I found on installing configobj:
>http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/articles/configobj.shtml
>
>Also, you didn't get the latest (master) cisco quantum code.
>In localrc please add/change:
>OFFLINE=False
>RECLONE=yes
>
>Also, are you using a nexus hardware switch in your topology?
>
>Thanks,
>Rich
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Yuling_C at DELL.com [mailto:Yuling_C at DELL.com]
>Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2013 1:46 PM
>To: openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org
>Cc: Rich Curran (rcurran)
>Subject: RE: [openstack-dev] FW: how to configure cisco plugin in
>devstack environment
>
>Thanks very much for the information... I just tried commenting out
>#QUANTUM_BRANCH=stable/grizzly. However, when I ran 'stack.sh' again, I
>still hit the same issue.
>
>From reading the log, I can see quantum was trying to pick up cisco
>plugin. However, it failed at importing configobj at
>cisco_configparser.py. Could this be PYTHONPATH issue? (However, I don't
>see any instructions for changing this environment variable)
>
>When you mentioned that
>>' this assumes another
>>change (cisco-single-config blueprint) that was committed to the
>>openstack master branch but didn't make it into stable/grizzly'.
>
>Do I need to pick up this change as well? The only thing I picked up was
>Robert's file of lib/quantum_plugins/cisco...the rest running on my
>environment was devstack grizzly release...
>
>
>Thanks,
>
>YuLing
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Robert Li (baoli) [mailto:baoli at cisco.com]
>Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2013 6:42 AM
>To: OpenStack Development Mailing List
>Cc: Rich Curran (rcurran)
>Subject: [openstack-dev] FW: how to configure cisco plugin in devstack
>environment
>
>Hi Yuling,
>
>See below for the response from Rich.
>
>Thanks,
>Robert
>
>On 5/7/13 9:33 AM, "Rich Curran (rcurran)" <rcurran at cisco.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Rich Curran (rcurran)
>>Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2013 9:29 AM
>>To: Kyle Mestery (kmestery); OpenStack Development Mailing List
>>Subject: RE: [openstack-dev] how to configure cisco plugin in devstack
>>environment
>>
>>Hi Yuling -
>>
>>I think there's at least one major mismatch going on here.
>>
>>If you're using Robert's devstack change
>>(https://review.openstack.org/#/c/25378/) then this assumes another
>>change (cisco-single-config blueprint) that was committed to the
>>openstack master branch but didn't make it into stable/grizzly.
>>
>>If you want to continue to use Robert's devstack changes then please
>>comment out this line from your localrc file:
>>#QUANTUM_BRANCH=stable/grizzly
>>
>>./unstack.sh and then ./stack.sh again
>>
>>This should pick up the master version of quantum. To check verify that
>>the only file under:
>>etc/quantum/plugins/cisco/ is the cisco_plugins.ini file.
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Rich
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Kyle Mestery (kmestery)
>>Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2013 9:07 AM
>>To: OpenStack Development Mailing List
>>Cc: Rich Curran (rcurran)
>>Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] how to configure cisco plugin in devstack
>>environment
>>
>>Did you do a "git fetch"? I think you may want to do that to ensure you
>>get the entire change set.
>>
>>Can you paste the contents of your
>>/etc/quantum/plugins/cisco/cisco_plugins.ini file?
>>
>>On May 7, 2013, at 1:39 AM, Yuling_C at DELL.com wrote:
>>
>>> Actually, I just followed the instruction on devstack grizzly
>>>installation 
>>>link:http://networkstatic.net/installing-openstack-grizzly-with-devsta
>>> ck/ and installed again. I copied over the 'cisco' file from the link
>>>https://review.openstack.org/#/c/25378/ to lib/quantum_plugins/ and
>>>set Q_plugin = cisco.
>>> 
>>> However, when I run stack.sh, Quantum server was not able to start
>>>with the following error in screen-q-svc.log:
>>> 
>>>    __import__(mod_str)
>>>  File "/opt/stack/quantum/quantum/plugins/cisco/network_plugin.py",
>>>line 30, in <module>
>>>    from quantum.plugins.cisco.common import cisco_utils as cutil File
>>>"/opt/stack/quantum/quantum/plugins/cisco/common/cisco_utils.py", line
>>>23, in <module>
>>>    from quantum.plugins.cisco.db import l2network_db as cdb  File
>>>"/opt/stack/quantum/quantum/plugins/cisco/db/l2network_db.py", line
>>>24, in <module>
>>>    from quantum.plugins.cisco import l2network_plugin_configuration
>>>as  conf  File 
>>>"/opt/stack/quantum/quantum/plugins/cisco/l2network_plugin_configuration
>>>.
>>>py", line 21, in <module>
>>>    from quantum.plugins.cisco.common import cisco_configparser as
>>>confp  File 
>>>"/opt/stack/quantum/quantum/plugins/cisco/common/cisco_configparser.py
>>>",
>>>line 19, in <module>
>>>    from configobj import ConfigObj
>>> ImportError: No module named configobj
>>> ERROR: Unable to load quantum from configuration file
>>>/etc/quantum/api-paste.ini.
>>> 
>>> Any idea why there's an input error for loading 'configobj'? this
>>>file should be under /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/landscape/lib.
>>>Why quantum cannot load this file?
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> 
>>> YuLing
>>> 
>>> ________________________________________
>>> From: C, Yuling
>>> Sent: Monday, May 06, 2013 7:58 PM
>>> To: openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org
>>> Cc: rcurran at cisco.com
>>> Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] how to configure cisco plugin in
>>> devstack environment
>>> 
>>> Thanks Kyle and Robert very much for all these information.
>>> 
>>> So, it seems that the new devstack version that contains Cisco plugin
>>>support is already available at https://review.openstack.org/#/c/25378/?
>>>Should I just use 'git fetch' to download it and install? Is this
>>>Havana version(release)?
>>> 
>>> After I download, can I just use Q_plugin to configure the core plugin?
>>>Do I still need to follow the manual set up steps on
>>>https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Cisco-quantum#A_Cisco_Plugin_Framework
>>>_fo
>>>r_Quantum_L2_Network_Overlays_Spanning_Multiple_Physical_Switches_.28H
>>>ava
>>>na_Release.29?
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> 
>>> YuLing
>>> 
>>> 
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Kyle Mestery (kmestery) [mailto:kmestery at cisco.com]
>>> Sent: Monday, May 06, 2013 2:09 PM
>>> To: OpenStack Development Mailing List
>>> Cc: Rich Curran (rcurran)
>>> Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] how to configure cisco plugin in
>>> devstack environment
>>> 
>>> I should note Robert's review for adding support to devstack for the
>>>Cisco plugin is here:
>>> 
>>> https://review.openstack.org/#/c/25378/
>>> 
>>> I've been running with it for a few weeks and it works great!
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> Kyle
>>> 
>>> On May 6, 2013, at 3:54 PM, Robert Li (baoli) <baoli at cisco.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Hi YuLing,
>>>> 
>>>> My guess is that you pulled the code from the master. So please
>>>>follow this link
>>>>https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Cisco-quantum#A_Cisco_Plugin_Framewor
>>>>k_f
>>>>or_Quantum_L2_Network_Overlays_Spanning_Multiple_Physical_Switches_.2
>>>>8Ha
>>>>vana_Release.29 instead.
>>>> 
>>>> Currently, configuring Q_PLUGIN to use cisco plugin is not available
>>>>in devstack yet, and it's being worked on. Therefore you have to
>>>>manually configure it with instructions given in the above link.
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Robert
>>>> 
>>>> On 5/6/13 1:50 PM, "Yuling_C at DELL.com" <Yuling_C at DELL.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Hi All,
>>>>> 
>>>>> I'm new to devstack and would need to configure cisco plugin to
>>>>>work in devstack environment. I followed the instruction in the
>>>>>webpage 
>>>>>(https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Cisco-quantum#A_Cisco_Plugin_Framew
>>>>>ork
>>>>>_for_Quantum_L2_Network_Overlays_Spanning_Multiple_Physical_Switches
>>>>>_.2
>>>>>8Grizzly_Release.29) to configure cisco plugin. However, devstack
>>>>>seems to always pick up OVSQuantumPluginV2 as 'core_plugin'.  Any
>>>>>idea?
>>>>> 
>>>>> I tried to set up Q_plugin in localrc. However, it seems cisco is
>>>>>not one of the plugins supported under
>>>>>/opt/stack/devstack/lib/quantum_plugins...do I need to configure
>>>>>this variable in localrc? If not, what else I need to do in order
>>>>>for openstack to pick up Cisco plugin in devstack environment?
>>>>> 
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> 
>>>>> YuLing
>>>>> 
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