[ixpmanager] New install step by step

[Nick Hilliard]

Vladislav Bidikov wrote on 23/07/2018 16:51:
> I chose Customer type as Route Server (although examples show pro-bono 
> as option) is this ok?

yep, that's correct.

> Now several questions emerge:
> 
> 1.
> 
> I would like to add the second Route Server (separate VM)  - can i just 
> add it under routes the same as i did for RS1 ?

yes.

> 2.
> 
> Can i add another customer (with private AS number) for Route Colector - 
> and than go from there ?

You should set the Route Collector up as being owned by the IXP itself. 
It would be a good idea for the IXP to have its own ASN.

> 3.
> 
> Since all these VMs (2 x RS, 1 x Rc, 1 x AS112) will be connected on the 
> same Port (the Eth-Trunk) how will IXP manager handle this since there 
> will be 3 customers ?

The VM acts as a virtual switch.  In fact, this usually causes 
monitoring problems because most (all?) VM snmp implementations don't 
support per-interface monitoring.

The physical switch port configuration can be done manually.

> 4.
> 
> Since i expect one real customer (ourselves as FCSE - with AS 52188) 
> also will come connected on the same trunk (to save few ETH ports) how 
> to handle this?

um, you don't really want to do this.  Each real customer should have 
their own physical port with appropriate port security mechanisms.  FCSE 
might run the IXP but it's not the IXP, and each should have their own port.

> 5.
> 
> Also, i enabled MRTG grapher which i see all files are generated/updated 
> in /srv/mrtg but the web page shows imaged not found:
> 
> http://prntscr.com/k9zd66
> 
> and, view source does not help since i cannot debug where does the img 
> is loaded from...

These files should come straight from /srv/mrtg.  Have you configured 
the following variables in .env:

GRAPHER_BACKEND_MRTG_WORKDIR="/srv/mrtg"
GRAPHER_BACKEND_MRTG_LOGDIR="/srv/mrtg"

Nick