# Horizon

## General information

Networking-bgpvpn contains the bgpvpn_dashboard plugin for Horizon. It adds a BGPVPN Interconnections panel in the admin section. Admin users can handle BGPVPNs resources through this panel. The operations possible for admin users are:

- listing BGPVPN

- creating a BGPVPN

- editing a BGPVPN

- associating or disassociating a BGPVPN to network(s)

- associating or disassociating a BGPVPN to router(s)

- deleting a BGPVPN

For non admin users the plugin adds a BGPVPN Interconnections panel in the Project section under the Network subsection. The operations possible for non admin users are:

- listing BGPVPN (display only name, type, networks and routers associations)

- editing a BGPVPN (only the name)

- associating or disassociating a BGPVPN to network(s)

- associating or disassociating a BGPVPN to router(s)

## Installation and Configuration

Devstack will automatically configure Horizon to enable the Horizon plugin.

For others deployments we assume that Horizon and networking-bgpvpn are already installed. Their installation folders are respectively <horizon> and <networking-bgpvpn>.

Copy configuration file:

    cp <networking-bgpvpn>/bgpvpn_dashboard/enabled/_[0-9]*.py <horizon>/openstack_dashboard/local/enabled/

Configure the policy file for BGPVPN dashboard in OpenStack Dashboard `local_settings.py`. `<bgpvpn-dashboard-dir>` is a directory which contains configurations for BGPVPN dashboard and the location varies across distributions or deployments. `<bgpvpn-dashboard-dir>` can be found with: `dirname $(python -c 'import bgpvpn_dashboard as _; print _.__file__')`

    POLICY_FILES[' networking-bgpvpn'] = '<bgpvpn-dashboard-dir>/bgpvpn_dashboard/etc/bgpvpn-horizon.conf'

Note

If you do not configure `POLICY_FILES` in your `local_settings.py`, you also need to define the default `POLICY_FILES` in `local_settings.py`. If you use the example `local_settings.py` file from horizon, what you need is to uncomment `POLICY_FILES` (which contains the default values).

Restart the web server hosting Horizon.

The BGPVPN Interconnections panels will now be in your Horizon dashboard.

this page last updated: 2026-04-14 16:25:50

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