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+# Copyright 2016 Rackspace Inc.
+# Copyright 2017 Catalyst IT Ltd
+#
+#    Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may
+#    not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain
+#    a copy of the License at
+#
+#         http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+#    Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+#    distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT
+#    WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the
+#    License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations
+#    under the License.
+
+
+from oslo_config import cfg
+
+
+service_option = cfg.BoolOpt(
+    'loadbalancer',
+    default=True,
+    help="Whether or not loadbalancing service is expected to be available"
+)
+
+octavia_group = cfg.OptGroup(name='loadbalancer',
+                             title='Loadbalancing Service Options')
+
+OctaviaGroup = [
+    cfg.StrOpt("region",
+               default="",
+               help="The region name to use. If empty, the value "
+                    "of identity.region is used instead. If no such region "
+                    "is found in the service catalog, the first found one is "
+                    "used."),
+    cfg.StrOpt('catalog_type',
+               default='load-balancer',
+               help='Catalog type of the Octavia service.'),
+    cfg.StrOpt('endpoint_type',
+               default='publicURL',
+               choices=['public', 'admin', 'internal',
+                        'publicURL', 'adminURL', 'internalURL'],
+               help="The endpoint type to use for the Octavia service."),
+    cfg.IntOpt('build_interval',
+               default=5,
+               help='Time in seconds between build status checks for '
+                    'non-loadbalancer resources to build'),
+    cfg.IntOpt('build_timeout',
+               default=30,
+               help='Timeout in seconds to wait for non-loadbalancer '
+                    'resources to build'),
+    cfg.IntOpt('lb_build_interval',
+               default=10,
+               help='Time in seconds between build status checks for a '
+                    'loadbalancer.'),
+    cfg.IntOpt('lb_build_timeout',
+               default=900,
+               help='Timeout in seconds to wait for a '
+                    'loadbalancer to build.'),
+    cfg.BoolOpt('premade_server',
+                default=False,
+                help='Allows us to use an already provisioned server to test '
+                     'loadbalancing.'),
+    cfg.StrOpt('premade_server_ip',
+               default=None,
+               help='IP of the premade server.'),
+    cfg.StrOpt('premade_server_subnet_id',
+               default=None,
+               help='Subnet ID of the premade server.'),
+    cfg.StrOpt('vip_network_id',
+               default=None,
+               help='Existing network ID to use for loadbalancer.'),
+    cfg.StrOpt('vip_subnet_id',
+               default=None,
+               help='Existing subnet ID to use for loadbalancer.'),
+    cfg.IntOpt('random_server_name_length',
+               default=0,
+               help='If non-zero, generate a random name of the length '
+                    'provided for each server, in the format "m[A-Z0-9]*". '),
+    cfg.StrOpt('availability_zone',
+               default=None,
+               help='Availability zone to use for creating servers.'),
+    cfg.StrOpt('member_role',
+               default='load-balancer_member',
+               help="Role to add to users created for octavia tests."),
+]