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author | Orest Voznyy <orestx.voznyy@intel.com> | 2018-10-31 17:27:04 +0200 |
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committer | Abhijit Sinha <abhijit.sinha@intel.com> | 2018-11-05 15:42:37 +0000 |
commit | d3022a65356ed300e942c3559f569051e36977af (patch) | |
tree | 610a5f2bffc3b4264b5f3d82c89d7e63803e5c25 /docs/testing/user/userguide/14-nsb-operation.rst | |
parent | b08ec122e407dee72514adbe14feb2314ec0245e (diff) |
[docs] Add vEPC test case preparation steps
Add documentation to review the changes to original vEPC infrastructure
files to configure NSB test run in a specific test setup.
Add initial steps to prepare NSB to use Spirent Landslide for vEPC tests.
JIRA: YARDSTICK-1459
Change-Id: I3b937b1a21d6ec6851a92946e46c679385fdff9c
Signed-off-by: Orest Voznyy <orestx.voznyy@intel.com>
(cherry picked from commit dc55a775f7aa62be7ed17cc33aa1b0bac54c081f)
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diff --git a/docs/testing/user/userguide/14-nsb-operation.rst b/docs/testing/user/userguide/14-nsb-operation.rst index a5f3a0cf6..043cc095a 100644 --- a/docs/testing/user/userguide/14-nsb-operation.rst +++ b/docs/testing/user/userguide/14-nsb-operation.rst @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ .. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International .. License. .. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 -.. (c) OPNFV, 2016-2017 Intel Corporation. +.. (c) OPNFV, 2016-2018 Intel Corporation. Yardstick - NSB Testing - Operation =================================== @@ -459,3 +459,108 @@ Sample test case file .. literalinclude:: /submodules/yardstick/samples/vnf_samples/nsut/acl/tc_ovs_rfc2544_ipv4_1rule_1flow_64B_trex.yaml :language: yaml + +Preparing test run of vEPC test case +------------------------------------ + +Provided vEPC test cases are examples of emulation of vEPC infrastructure +components, such as UE, eNodeB, MME, SGW, PGW. + +Location of vEPC test cases: ``samples/vnf_samples/nsut/vepc/``. + +Before running a specific vEPC test case using NSB, some preconfiguration +needs to be done. + +Update Spirent Landslide TG configuration in pod file +===================================================== + +Examples of ``pod.yaml`` files could be found in +:file:`etc/yardstick/nodes/standalone`. +The name of related pod file could be checked in the context section of NSB +test case. + +The ``pod.yaml`` related to vEPC test case uses some sub-structures that hold the +details of accessing the Spirent Landslide traffic generator. +These subsections and the changes to be done in provided example pod file are +described below. + +1. ``tas_manager``: data under this key holds the information required to +access Landslide TAS (Test Administration Server) and perform needed +configurations on it. + + * ``ip``: IP address of TAS Manager node; should be updated according to test + setup used + * ``super_user``: superuser name; could be retrieved from Landslide documentation + * ``super_user_password``: superuser password; could be retrieved from + Landslide documentation + * ``cfguser_password``: password of predefined user named 'cfguser'; default + password could be retrieved from Landslide documentation + * ``test_user``: username to be used during test run as a Landslide library + name; to be defined by test run operator + * ``test_user_password``: password of test user; to be defined by test run + operator + * ``proto``: *http* or *https*; to be defined by test run operator + * ``license``: Landslide license number installed on TAS + +2. The ``config`` section holds information about test servers (TSs) and +systems under test (SUTs). Data is represented as a list of entries. +Each such entry contains: + + * ``test_server``: this subsection represents data related to test server + configuration, such as: + + * ``name``: test server name; unique custom name to be defined by test + operator + * ``role``: this value is used as a key to bind specific Test Server and + TestCase; should be set to one of test types supported by TAS license + * ``ip``: Test Server IP address + * ``thread_model``: parameter related to Test Server performance mode. + The value should be one of the following: "Legacy" | "Max" | "Fireball". + Refer to Landslide documentation for details. + * ``phySubnets``: a structure used to specify IP ranges reservations on + specific network interfaces of related Test Server. Structure fields are: + + * ``base``: start of IP address range + * ``mask``: IP range mask in CIDR format + * ``name``: network interface name, e.g. *eth1* + * ``numIps``: size of IP address range + + * ``preResolvedArpAddress``: a structure used to specify the range of IP + addresses for which the ARP responses will be emulated + + * ``StartingAddress``: IP address specifying the start of IP address range + * ``NumNodes``: size of the IP address range + + * ``suts``: a structure that contains definitions of each specific SUT + (represents a vEPC component). SUT structure contains following key/value + pairs: + + * ``name``: unique custom string specifying SUT name + * ``role``: string value corresponding with an SUT role specified in the + session profile (test session template) file + * ``managementIp``: SUT management IP adress + * ``phy``: network interface name, e.g. *eth1* + * ``ip``: vEPC component IP address used in test case topology + * ``nextHop``: next hop IP address, to allow for vEPC inter-node communication + +Update NSB test case definitions +================================ +NSB test case file designated for vEPC testing contains an example of specific +test scenario configuration. +Test operator may change these definitions as required for the use case that +requires testing. +Specifically, following subsections of the vEPC test case (section **scenarios**) +may be changed. + +1. Subsection ``options``: contains custom parameters used for vEPC testing + + * subsection ``dmf``: may contain one or more parameters specified in + ``traffic_profile`` template file + * subsection ``test_cases``: contains re-definitions of parameters specified + in ``session_profile`` template file + + .. note:: All parameters in ``session_profile``, value of which is a + placeholder, needs to be re-defined to construct a valid test session. + +2. Subsection ``runner``: specifies the test duration and the interval of +TG and VNF side KPIs polling. For more details, refer to :doc:`03-architecture`. |