Configuring a VPN Instance for the Switch to Communicate with the Portal Server

This section provides a sample of configuring a VPN instance for the switch to communicate with the Portal server using the merge method. You can also use the create method to configure a VPN instance for the switch to communicate with the Portal server.

**Table 1** Configuring a VPN instance for the switch to communicate with the Portal server
Operation	XPATH
edit-config:merge	/huawei-aaa-portal:portal/portal-server/vpn-instance

Data Requirement

**Table 2** Configuring a VPN instance for the switch to communicate with the Portal server
Item	Data	Description
vpn-instance	vpna	Configure the VPN instance vpna for the switch to communicate with the Portal server. The VPN instance must exist on the switch.

Request Example

<rpc xmlns="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:netconf:base:1.0" message-id="123">
 <edit-config xmlns="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:netconf:base:1.0">
  <target>
   <running/>
  </target>
  <error-option>rollback-on-error</error-option>
  <config>
   <hw-l3vpn:vpn-instances xmlns:hw-l3vpn="urn:huawei:params:xml:ns:yang:huawei-l3vpn">
    <hw-l3vpn:vpn-instance>
     <hw-l3vpn:vpn-instance-name>vpna</hw-l3vpn:vpn-instance-name>
    </hw-l3vpn:vpn-instance>
   </hw-l3vpn:vpn-instances>
   <portal xmlns="urn:huawei:params:xml:ns:yang:huawei-aaa-portal">
    <portal-server>
     <name>webauth1</name>
     <vpn-instance>vpna</vpn-instance>
    </portal-server>
   </portal>
  </config>
 </edit-config>
</rpc>

Response Example

Sample of successful response

<rpc-reply xmlns="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:netconf:base:1.0" message-id="DEVICECONFIG_012824316d704d43adb16b1a4245d273">
 <ok/>
</rpc-reply>

Sample of failed response

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
<rpc-reply xmlns="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:netconf:base:1.0" message-id="19">
  <rpc-error>
    <error-app-tag>-1</error-app-tag>
    <error-message> The vpn-instance does not exist or is invalid.</error-message>
    <error-info>Error on node /huawei-aaa-portal:portal/portal-server[name="webauth1"]/vpn-instance</error-info>
  </rpc-error>
</rpc-reply>