Chapter 4 Using Service Manager

Activating Services on HA Devices

When you select one or more VRF configurations, the Execute and List buttons will be disabled. For more information, see Configuring VRF Support on HA Devices, page 4-31.

Configuring VRF Support on HA Devices

You can configure VRF support on home agent devices by using the Home Agent VRF Configuration wizard.

To launch the Home Agent VRF Configuration wizard:

Step 1 Choose a device group (Choose Service Manager > Select Group). See Selecting an HA Device Group, page 4-3.

Step 2 Choose HA Service Manager > Service Activation >HA VRF.

The Home Agent VRF dialog box displays a list of VRF configured realms, in the selected device group.

Step 3 Perform one of these actions:

To create the VRF for a realm, click Execute without selecting a realm.

Choose a realm, then click Execute to modify its VRF configuration. The first window of the Home Agent VRF Configuration wizard contains:

 

 

Field

Description

 

 

 

 

 

 

Realm Name

Specifies the realm name. It is a unique identifier with the syntax @realm.

 

 

 

Click Fetch to select a realm from a list. A popup appears with a list of realms.

 

 

 

Choose a realm and click Select. Click the column heading to sort the list.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

VRF for Realm

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

VRF Name

Specifies a unique name to identify the VRF for a specific group. You can:

 

 

 

Click Fetch to select a configured VRF from a list. A popup appears with a

 

 

 

list of configured VRFs. Choose a VRF and click Select. Click any column

 

 

 

heading to sort the list.

 

 

 

Click Define to configure a new VRF routing table. See VRF Definition

 

 

 

Dialog Box Field Descriptions, page 4-33, for more details.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Virtual Home Agent

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

IP Address

Specifies the IP address of the Home Agent. Click Assign to Loopback to

 

 

 

configure a loopback interface. This action provides a stable address to

 

 

 

minimize the impact of a physical interface going down. See Loopback

 

 

 

Interface Dialog Box Field Descriptions, page 4-33, for more details.

 

 

 

 

 

 

AAA Group

You can define AAA accounting and, or authentication servers.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Accounting Group

(Optional) Specifies an AAA accounting group. When you define an AAA

 

 

 

accounting server group, all accounting records for the users of the realm will

 

 

 

be sent to the specified group.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Authentication

(Optional) Specifies an AAA authentication group. When you define an AAA

 

 

Group

authentication group, the Home Agent sends access requests for mobile IP

 

 

 

registration requests, to the AAA servers that are defined in the group.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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