Lou Berger <lber...@labn.net> wrote:
> Martin,
> Sorry for the delayed response, was away for a bit. Not sure if any of
> this is OBE as just starting to catch up on mail.
>
> On 08/20/2015 03:58 AM, Martin Bjorklund wrote:
> > Lou Berger <lber...@labn.net> wrote:
> >> Martin,
> >>
> >> See below.
> >> On 08/19/2015 05:27 AM, Martin Bjorklund wrote:
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> Lou Berger <lber...@labn.net> wrote:
[...]
> >> Deeper in the hierarchy the path becomes more significant, but you
> >> weren't really questioning this.
> >
> > I am all for significant nodes in the path!
>
> This is really good/useful to hear. If disagreement is limited to the
> top level node, it's much easier (but not easy ;-) problem to solve.
>
> > My point is that /device
> > is insignificant.
>
> I think the fundamental discussion here, is who get's to say what's
> significant and we have (at least) two opposing views on this point.
>
> From my standpoint it comes down to how you view full set of models that
> may be seen. From the device view, you might only (or, more likely,
> mostly) see models under /device -- so device doesn't add much value.
> BUT from the controller/NMS/EMS (or whatever you want to call it) view,
> you're likely to see all the models
Agreed, but see below.
> so /device plays a much more
> significant role in identifying logical model
> organization/understanding. -- That said, I'm much more of a device
> person than an NMS builder, so I'm also willing to trust the opinion of
> folks who are clearly doing significant work on the controller/NMS
> side.
[This was briefly discussed in another mail thread, and I'll repeat it
here.]
On the controller, you probably have a list of devices you control
(this is how our NCS works, and how ODL works (I have been told)):
container devices {
list device {
key name;
// meta-info about the device goes here, things like
// ip-address, port, auth info...
container data {
// all models supported by the devices are "mounted" here
}
}
}
So on the controller, the path to interface "eth0" on device "foo"
would be:
/devices/device[name='foo']/data/interfaces/interface[name='eth0']
if we also have a top-level "/device" container we'd have:
/devices/device[name='foo']/data/device/interfaces/interface[name='eth0']
(here you again can see that the "device" node in the device model
doesn't make much sense)
The path is scoped in the system you work with; in the controller it
might be as I illustrated above, in the device it starts with
/interfaces. But then you might also have a
controller-of-controllers. where the path might be:
/domains/domain[name='bar']/devices/device[name='foo']/data
/interfaces/interface[name='eth0']
Pushing all these concepts down into the device model clearly doesn't
help...
/martin
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