Not all network interfaces are available after reimaging on a hardware appliance with Gateway 11

Products

• CA API Gateway

Issue/Introduction

When configuring the network cards on a Hardware appliance after a reimage to gateway 11 , only two interfaces are showed in the ssgconfig menu , instead of all seven interfaces are showed .

Environment

Gateway 11.x 

Resolution

To resolve this the missing network cards needs to be added to the /etc/iftab file .

Open the file /etc/iftab in your Gateway machine with nano.

This file contains descriptive information about current network interfaces in your Gateway machine through a set of mappings.

In our example, we will edit the iftab file and add a new EXSi network interface and map the  MAC address retrieved from ESX for this nic to the correct name

ssg_eth1 mac 08:00:27:6a:ea:3c

After adding the new connection, edit the new connection to use the new network interface name with the nmcli command:

$ nmcli con modify "Wired connection #" connection.interface-name "ssg_eth1"

(Optional) You can rename the connection name to ‘ssg_eth#’ to maintain consistency:

$ nmcli con modify "Wired connection #" connection.id "ssg_eth1"

Do this for all interfaces so you name them in the sequence you need

After a reboot all NIC are visible in the ssgmenu and can be configured

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