> > jdc-11 How will the overlap between 'ipmpstat' and 'ipadm show-ipmp' > > be handled? > > Today ipmpstat has the unfortunate task of displaying all the ipmp state, > due to lack of better alternatives. After the delivery of the ipmp component > of ipadm, ipmpstat will only display statistics. ipadm show-ipmp will > display ipmp state (such as interface membership, state etc.)
I strongly disagree with this proposed change. First, it makes little sense since ipmpstat does not show *any* statistics today. Second, the customers and support engineers that I have spoken with *love* the one-stop shopping nature of ipmpstat for IPMP status. Third, you would have to add five distinct show subcommands to fold in all of the information in a way that would provide equivalent functionality which would be a mess. The proper level for ipadm show-ipmp should be the kind of stuff ifconfig shows today: basic group membership and health (roughly similar in content to the 20k foot view shown by ipmpstat -g). That is, it should allow an administrator/support personnel to do basic sanity checks of the IPMP configuration. They should then use ipmpstat to obtain more detailed information. Having ipadm provide other IPMP-specific stuff like IPMP probe and target information would just weigh down ipadm and lead to a confusing schism for customers trying to get a handle on IPMP-specific information. So, please leave ipmpstat be and have show-ipmp provide high-level IPMP configuration inforation analogous to "ipmpstat -g". -- meem
