issue with creating chameleon server using the notebook chameleon_facility_port

I am still having this issue so I manually created a server in Chameleon, go its ip, and went on to run the notebook but at the final step the fabric node was not able to ping the Chameleon server.

Moreover, I have another question. From the fabric portal, I know that we can create a chameleon facility port and connect it to a fabric slice but can we replicate this exact experiment (creating a node(s) in chameleon and also in fabric and connecting them) using the fabric portal?

Hello, I just realized the lease of those slices ended. I created new ones and their slice ids are: f43ae1fb-459f-4947-b41d-2c859ed81ffc and ae103574-56cf-4859-a75b-54308ff94570

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Moreover, this is the output of pinging the chameleon server:

Hi,

I am still facing the same issue on the other sites as well. Do we need to explicitly add routes from the nodes of those sites so that they can reach the fabnetv4 subnet created at tacc?

Hi,

Thanks for that! Would it be possible for you to share the code snippet of how you set up the server? This is how I did it and I can see it up and running on the Chameleon GUI. I can also see that it was successfully assigned the ip address from the fabnetv4 pool of ip addresses. Also, I pinged the fabric gateway (10.30.162.1) from a node in psc and that worked but it failed for the chameleon gateway (10.130.162.2).

Create the lease

BLAZAR_TIME_FORMAT = ‘%Y-%m-%d %H:%M’

# Set start/end date for lease
# Start one minute into future to avoid Blazar thinking lease is in past
# due to rounding to closest minute.
start_date = (datetime.now(tz=tz.tzutc()) + timedelta(minutes=1)).strftime(BLAZAR_TIME_FORMAT)
end_date = (datetime.now(tz=tz.tzutc()) + timedelta(days=1)).strftime(BLAZAR_TIME_FORMAT)

# Build list of reservations (in this case there is only one reservation)
reservation_list = [
{
“resource_type”: “network”,
“network_name”: chameleon_network_name,
“network_properties”: “”,
“resource_properties”: json.dumps(
[“==”, “$stitch_provider”, ‘fabric’]
),
},

{‘resource_type’: ‘physical:host’,
‘resource_properties’: ‘[“==”, “$node_type”, “compute_skylake”]’,
‘hypervisor_properties’: ”, ‘min’: 1, ‘max’: 1}]

chameleon_lease = chi.lease.create_lease(chameleon_lease_name,
reservations=reservation_list,
start_date=start_date,
end_date=end_date)

#Print the lease info
chameleon_network_reservation_id = [reservation for reservation in chameleon_lease[‘reservations’] if reservation[‘resource_type’] == ‘network’][0][‘id’]
print(f”chameleon_network_reservation_id: {chameleon_network_reservation_id}”)
chameleon_server_reservation_id = [reservation for reservation in chameleon_lease[‘reservations’] if reservation[‘resource_type’] == ‘physical:host’][0][‘id’]
print(f”chameleon_node_reservation_id: {chameleon_server_reservation_id}”)

Configure chameleon network and routes

chameleon_subnet = chi.network.create_subnet(chameleon_subnet_name, chameleon_network_id,
cidr=str(subnet),
allocation_pool_start=chameleon_allocation_pool_start,
allocation_pool_end=chameleon_allocation_pool_end,
gateway_ip=chameleon_gateway_ip)

chi.neutron().update_subnet(subnet=chameleon_subnet[‘id’] ,
body={
“subnet”: {
“host_routes”: [
{
“destination”: f”{fablib.FABNETV4_SUBNET}”,
“nexthop”: f”{fabric_gateway_ip}”
}
]
}
})

print(f”subnet name : {chameleon_subnet[‘name’]}”)
print(f”subnet : {chameleon_subnet[‘cidr’]}”)
print(f”gateway_ip : {chameleon_subnet[‘gateway_ip’]}”)

for starting server

import chi.server

servers = []

for i in range(chameleon_server_count):
server_name=f”{chameleon_server_name}_{i+1}”

# Create the server
servers.append(chi.server.create_server(server_name,
reservation_id= chameleon_server_reservation_id,
network_name=chameleon_network_name,
image_name=chameleon_image_name,
key_name=chameleon_key_name
))

# Wait until the server is active
for server in servers:
print(f’Waiting for server: {server.name}’)
chi.server.wait_for_active(server.id)
print(‘Done!’)

Hi,

What did you do for the Chameleon server reservation ID? Since in the notebook, there aren’t steps to reserve a server. That is where I tried reserving a server using the chi api and got the reservation id.