Managing the Supported Providers List

This chapter contains the following sections:

Information About the Supported Providers List

The supported providers list allows you to manually update the Cisco Intercloud Fabric Director (ICFD) providers list as new providers are supported. The supported providers list can be used to manually create a customized ICFD providers list for distribution to customers.

Guidelines and Limitations for the Supported Providers List

Use extreme caution when deploying this feature in a live system and when other users are using the ICFD UI. The service stop/start will cause unwanted service outages. We recommended that you deploy this feature prior to infrastructure setup.

Updating the Supported Providers List

You can manually update the ICFD providers list as new providers are supported.

Before You Begin

  • Ensure that you have access credentials for the ICFD ShellAdmin user.

  • From Cisco.com, download the create_patch_providerslist.sh and supported_providers files to your desktop.


    Note

    During the installation of the patch, the browser to ICFD is not available. When the service is restarted, you can view the new supported providers list as part of the icfCloud creation.

Procedure
    Step 1   Log in to ICFD using ShellAdmin user credentials and enter your password to access the CLI mode. The Intercloud Fabric Shell Menu, Standalone Node menu appears.
    Step 2   At the SELECT> prompt, enter 3, and then click return to stop services.
    Step 3   At the SELECT> prompt, enter 16, and then click return to apply patch.
    Step 4   At the Do you want to take database backup before applying patch [y/n]? prompt, enter N, and then click return.
    Step 5   At the Patch URL: prompt, enter your <web server address/patch file path and filename>.
    Step 6   At the SELECT> prompt, enter 4, and then click return to start services.
    Note   

    It can take up to 1 minute for all services to come up.

    Step 7   At the SELECT> prompt, enter 2, and then click return to display the services status.

    Check that all services are RUNNING.

    Step 8   Log in to ICFD using admin credentials and choose Intercloud > IcfCloud > Account Credentials.

    Review the Cloud Type drop-down list for the updated supported providers list.

    The following example shows how to manually update the ICFD supported providers list: 

    SELECT> 3
SELECT> 16
Do you want to take database backup before applying patch [y/n]? N
Patch URL: http://10.7.1.7/patch/icfd-providers-patch-2.1.1.zip
SELECT> 4
SELECT> 2

    Creating a Customized Supported Providers List

    You can manually create a customized ICFD providers list for distribution to customers.

    Before You Begin

    • Ensure that you have access credentials for the ICFD ShellAdmin user.


      Note

      During the installation of the patch, the browser to ICFD is not available. When the service is restarted, you can view the new supported providers list as part of the icfCloud creation.

    Procedure
      Step 1   From your desktop, download the script file and the supported_providers file from Cisco.com.
      Step 2   Update the supported_providers file, in its existing format, to include new supported providers on the list.
      Step 3   Copy the file to your Linux system.
      Step 4   Run the script file from within your Linux system to generate the patch:

      Example:<script_name> -p <supportedproviders_file>
      Step 5   Copy the generated patch file to a web server that has network reachability with ICFD.

      The following example shows how to manually create a customeized ICFD supported providers list: 

      <script_name> -p <supportedproviders_file>