Users Guide

Setting Up F5 BIGIP VNF Package | Configuring Virtualization
818 OMNM 6.5.3 User Guide
You can register and apply a license directly to an F5 BIG-IP VE VM who’s status is Online (Active)
by logging into the VNF’s Web interface and following the instructions F5 provides.
See
Manually Applying an F5 License on page 834 regarding an example process for obtaining/
applying the license provided by F5 using the manual license registration process. Contact F5
directly for further assistance.
Known Issues
The following issues are known:
• F5 BIGIP VE license registration and activation requires manual steps.
License activation is not automatically assigned or applied by OpenManage Network Manager
NFV-MANO. License activation requires some manual steps. After instantiating a VNF/VDU,
you must perform the manual steps every time you instantiate a VM that represents an F5
BIGIP VE instance in the OpenStack environment.
See
Manually Applying an F5 License on page 834 for detailed instructions.
• Management Traffic using SNMP is blocked by default.
By default, the F5 BIGIP VE is configured to block SNMP traffic.
OpenManage Network Manager (OMNM) Resource Discovery and Resource Monitoring
activities require that SNMP access is turned on and enabled on the running F5 BIGIP VEs,
in order to discover and manage the VEs.
OMNM applications
require a setting before creating the bootable snapshot that enables
SNMP access.
See
Preparing an Image on page 819 for details on creating an updated F5 BIGIP VE
snapshot image.
• Pagination preference for F5’s TMSH CLI is only available globally.
The F5 BIGIP TMSH command line interface (CLI) Pagination preference setting is not
available on a per CLI session or per user account basis. Because the setting is global and it is
required to be set to false for OpenManage Network Manager (OMNM) to issue scripts to the
F5 BIGIP VM via the TMSH CLI without errors in an automated fashion, the global
pagination setting must be reset to
false (off).
Turn off the pagination setting before creating the bootable snapshot that contains other
settings.
See
Preparing an Image on page 819 for details on creating the updated F5 BIGIP VE
snapshot image.
• The nfv-vnfm-f5 package is a codeless VNFM implementation and therefore
does not
support
NFV VNF record and NFV Network Service record Discovery/Resync.
References
This section provides references to:
•
Vendor Documentation (URLs)
• VNF Configuration Methods
Vendor Documentation (URLs)
Refer to the following vendor-specific websites for assistance, downloads, documentation, product
datasheet, and so on: