Unable to reenable the VNA integration after upgrading Spectrum
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Unable to reenable the VNA integration after upgrading Spectrum

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Article ID: 282079

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Products

Network Observability Virtual Network Assurance Spectrum

Issue/Introduction

In Spectrum 22.2.5 the VNA integration was disabled and after upgrading to 23.3.4 the following error is displayed when trying to enable back the VNA integration:

Note: Legacy VNA Aggregator detected, but no VNA nost models exit. Check Server Logs for errors.

The following error was found in the $SPECROOT/tomcat/logs/catalina.out file:

2024-04-10 15:36:08,812 [http-nio-8080-exec-16] INFO  com.aprisma.debuglog -  (SDNIntegrationServlet) - No VNA Host Models Exist - true
2024-04-10 15:36:08,812 [http-nio-8080-exec-16] INFO  com.aprisma.debuglog -  (SDNIntegrationServlet) - Is Not a Migration Scenario - false
2024-04-10 15:36:12,844 [Thread-17] WARN  com.aprisma.errorlog - IOException: Connection refused (Connection refused)

2024-04-10 15:37:24,262 [http-nio-8080-exec-1] WARN  com.aprisma.errorlog - Got the Error connect timed out while  parse the response from VNAjava.net.SocketTimeoutException: connect timed out

Environment

Spectrum 23.3.4

Cause

Old VNA Aggregator informations are still in the SDN Manager attributes.

Resolution

Steps to clean up the SDN Manager attributes:

1. On the attributes TAB of the SDNManager, click on the Edit button:

2. Clear the following attributes:

  • SDN_Enabled_OC_Server (0x6730005)
  • SDNGatewayPassword (0x6730065)
  • SDNGatewayType (0x6730042) set it to 0
  • SDNGatewayUsername (0x6730064)
  • SDNIntegrationEnabled (0x6730004)
  • SDNInventoryLastUpdatedTime (0x6730026)
  • SDNNotificationLastSyncTime (0x6730043)

3. Successfully changed the following attribute values:

4. Enable the VNA integration:

Additional Information

Run the following cURL syntax to validate the connectivity from OC to VNA host:

curl -u <username>:<password> http://<VNA_host>:<port>/vna/rest/v1/inventory/userdomains

curl -u admin:admin http://<VNA_host>:8080/vna/rest/v1/inventory/userdomains

curl -k -u admin:admin  https://<VNA_host>:8443/vna/rest/v1/inventory/userdomains