MSAF Configuration Tool - Configuration parameter for setting M1 endpoint

[dsilhavy]

Background

This is a discussion that was happening on Slack. As Slack deletes messages after some time I am moving the discussion to this thread.

Description

Original request from @dsilhavy:
I had a bit of trouble getting the msaf-configuration tool to work when doing the 5GMS end-to-end setup. Where do I need to put the M1 URL for the msaf-configuration tool? Is there a config file? I ended up editing the lib/rt_m1_client/configuration.py and rebuilding the executables:

    [m1-client]
    log_level = info
    data_store = %(state_dir)s/m1-client
    m1_address = 192.168.178.33
    m1_port = 5678
    asp_id =
    external_app_id = please-change-this
    certificate_signing_class = rt_m1_client.certificates.DefaultCertificateSigner

Solution

Solution provided by @davidjwbbc :

The msaf-configuration and m1-session tools both use the same configuration for access to M1. You can use the m1-session configure show command to look at this configuration and the m1-session configure set m1_address <ip-address> and m1-session configure set m1_port <port-number> commands to set a different address.

You should use the same user to run the m1-session configure ... commands as the user that will be running msaf-configuration  as the configuration may be user specific.

[dsilhavy]

Pasting the solution here again coming from @davidjwbbc

The msaf-configuration and m1-session tools both use the same configuration for access to M1. You can use the m1-session configure show command to look at this configuration and the m1-session configure set m1_address <ip-address> and m1-session configure set m1_port <port-number> commands to set a different address.

You should use the same user to run the m1-session configure ... commands as the user that will be running msaf-configuration as the configuration may be user specific.