Kaspersky SD-WAN

Editing a network service

17 April 2024

ID 260680

To edit a network service:

  1. In the menu, go to the Catalog section.

    The network service management page is displayed.

  2. In the Network services pane, select the network service that you want to edit.

    The graphical design tool for building the topology is displayed.

  3. In the upper part of the graphical design tool, click Edit.
  4. Add components to the topology:
    1. Drag components from the Catalog pane into the graphical design tool. This pane displays the following components:
    2. Drag and drop connections from the Links tab into the graphical design tool. The following connections are displayed on this tab:

      The remaining links are relevant to network communication at the VIM level and are established between VNFs hosted by the OpenStack cloud platform:

    3. Select the UNI tab and drag CPE device UNIs to the graphical design tool. If you are using a network service template, you must replace the abstract UNIs in the topology with real UNIs. Abstract UNIs can be designated by two components, UNI and WAN. The WAN component refers to UNIs that must be connected to the WAN.

      You can configure a UNI in the topology.

  5. Connect the components added to the topology to each other:
    1. Click the link to which you want to connect a component.
    2. Click Add leaf to connect a component with the leaf role to the link. If you clicked a P2M service, you can click Add root to connect a component with the root role to the link.
    3. Click the component that you want to connect to the link. If you clicked a network function or shared network service, select the port to connect to in the displayed window.

    The component is connected to the link, and a line is displayed between them in the topology. For example, the figure below shows the VLAN to which a virtual network function is connected.

    Catalog_OS_VLAN_add_leaf

  6. If you want to assign backup UNIs:

    A backup UNI can be assigned only for UNIs which are connected to at least one link.

    1. Click the UNI for which you want to assign a backup UNI.
    2. Click Reserve.
    3. Click the UNI that you want to use as the backup.

    The UNI is designated as the backup UNI, and a dotted line is displayed between the UNI, the backup UNI, and the connection to which the UNI is connected. For example, in the figure below, the WAN UNI is the backup interface for the UNI.

    Catalog_backup_interface

  7. To remove a component from the topology:
    1. Click the component that you want to remove from the topology.
    2. Click Delete.

    The component is removed from the topology and is no longer displayed in the graphical design tool.

  8. If you want to horizontally align the topology, click Arrange.
  9. If you do not want to hide the descriptions of the added components in the topology, clear the Description check box. This check box is selected by default.
  10. In the Name field, enter the name of the network service.
  11. Finish editing the network service in one of the following ways:
    • If you are editing a network service that is not deployed, do one of the following:
      • To save the network service, click Save.
      • To save and deploy the network service, click Deploy.
    • If you are editing a deployed network service, click Deploy changes to deploy your changes.

The network service is modified and updated in Network services pane. If you clicked Deploy or Deploy changes, deployment begins, which may take several minutes. You can interrupt the deployment by clicking Abort deploy.

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