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2. RAN-Sim: Netconf-server(s) (agents) - Extended Honeycomb

This has the following steps:

A. Cloning and building Honeycomb (base) repository

B. Cloning and building enodebsim repository

A. HoneyComb Repository

   Clone using following URL:

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    git checkout e9d3785d0603bf6e024affafc735641ee312b675

Note: Other versions has installation issues related to dependencies download.

Then do,

  mvn clean install

B. enodebsim Repository

This repository has the code we developed.

1. Clone and checkout the latest:

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              cd honeycombsim/

2. Copy the enodebsim folder to honeycomb folder mentioned in the previous step.

                cp –r  enodebsim/ <Your_Folder>/honeycomb/

3. Copy & paste below entry in honeycomb/pom.xml, under <modules>

                <module>enodebsim</module> And then,

 4. Do the foll. next:

                cd <Your_Folder>/honeycomb/

                mvn clean install

      Build should be successful for the following artifacts

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                 enodebsim-aggregator

5. Copy the below folder to a new location:

                 <Your_Folder>/honeycomb/enodebsim/enodebsim-distribution/target/enodebsim-distribution-1.18.10-hc/enodebsim-distribution-1.18.10

And rename 6. Rename it to hc_50001(any appropriate name)

                cp –R <Your_Folder>/honeycomb/enodebsim/enodebsim-distribution/target/enodebsim-distribution-1.18.10-hc/enodebsim-distribution-1.18.10  <NewLocation>/hc_50001/

git clone and checking out hc_50000,

Example repository after executing steps (A) and (B):

1. Single Single instance of HoneyComb Simulator(configured with port 50000) created for our reference and committed in the below repository path.

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      cd Netconf-Agents/hc_50000   

it        it has few configuration files intended to be modified with current environment configuration settings (details given below).

2. Copy below folders from hc_50000, to this new simulator instance(50001):

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              cp <Your_Folder>/hc_50000/ransom.properties <Your_Folder>/hc_50001/

3. Modify below property file,

             <Your_Folder>/hc_50001/ransim.properties,

based        based on the environment setup and port could be 50001 in this case(Run any number of simulators with different ports).

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                 Port number in which ran-sim controller is started. eg.,8081

4. Similarly, edit the port number(netconf-ssh-binding-port) in the following configuration file to be in sync with ransim properties file.

<Your     <Your_Folder>/hc_50001/config/ netconf.json

Start HoneyComb Simulator:

                cd <Your_Folder>/hc_50001/

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This line of log will print the configuration topology of RAN network pulled from Ransim Controller. 

Connecting to device from console:

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Netconf commands validation:

get:

<rpc xmlns="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:netconf:base:1.0" message-id="102">

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    </edit-config>

</rpc>

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<rpc xmlns="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:netconf:base:1.0" message-id="101">

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Edit or delete operation on different cells in the topology of the agent will notify the Ransim Controller which will update GUI & DB to be in Sync.

Additional information:

To run each instance of HoneyComb it requires 353 ~353 MB of memory. Still we are working on optimizing the simulator configuration to run only required processes for ONAP setup.

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