Hi!
Vladimir, you can exclude shelving and operator actions in your implementation.
These are YANG features that an implementation can exclude.
See RFC 6020  7.18.1.  The feature Statement
br Stefan


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> On 11 Oct 2016, at 11:10, Vladimir Vassilev <vladi...@transpacket.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I also reviewed the ietf-alarms model. We are interested and intend to 
> implement it replacing our proprietary model.
> 
> The model is flexible and covers all alarms scenarios we support.
> 
> IMO the operator and shelving functionality can potentially be moved to 
> additional module augmenting a simpler ietf-alarms.yang allowing possible 
> alternative models.
> 
> As I understand Alex he would like to see some solution adding some 
> determinism by pairing known "resource" and 
> {alarm-type-id,alarm-type-qualifier} tuples. This can be done in additional 
> model since I see it as an additional feature not necessary to be part of the 
> core ietf-alarms.yang and I see nothing preventing such additional model to 
> be built on top of the current ietf-alarms.yang
> 
> Vladimir
> 
> 
> On 10/11/2016 09:18 AM, stefan vallin wrote:
>> Hi!
>> 
>> Alex, see inline on your comments.
>> Another thing, you had  an earlier comment:
>> "I would like to see a YANG feature for past status changes, or perhaps this 
>> part moved to a separate module augmenting ietf-alarms.”
>> Just to make sure I get your comment correctly.
>> Are you saying that you would like the alarm/status-change list to be a YANG 
>> feature to indicate “optionality"
>> 
>>    list status-change {
>>       if-feature alarm-status-changes;  <<<<<
>>       key time;
>>> Alex Campbell <alex.campb...@aviatnet.com> wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>> 
>>>> alarm-list holds a list of raised and cleared alarms (but not those
>>>> that have never been raised).
>>>> alarm-inventory holds a list of all possible alarm _types_.
>>>> If alarm-inventory were to hold a list of all possible alarms, that
>>>> would indeed resolve my concern. (It would be equivalent to our
>>>> all-alarms list)
>>> But this only works for devices where you can (statically?) enumerate
>>> *all* resources that possibly could be in an alarm state!  This does
>>> not seem very scalable to me.  Or did I miss something in your
>>> descripition?
>>> 
>>>>> But other things than entities can have alarms. AND
>>>>> instance-identifers are not “free-form”. It is a strange limitation to
>>>>> limit alarms to the entity-model
>>>> I agree; however, it has the nice effects that it is possible to
>>>> enumerate all resources
>> So, we could consider the alarm-inventory to have an additional leaf 
>> “resource”.
>> I think that would resolve your issue?
>> Of course not all systems know that, but for those that do, this helps a 
>> lot, I agree.
>> I see that go well with another relevant comment you had that the 
>> alarm-inventory should have
>> a requirement that it needs to be updated when new cards are inserted for 
>> example.
>> We might even add a notif for alarm-inventory changes.
>> 
>>> On 11 Oct 2016, at 08:42, Martin Bjorklund <m...@tail-f.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> See above.
>>> 
>>>> and also that the resources and their
>>>> associated alarms form a hierarchy which can be visually displayed -
>>>> an operator can expand a tree to get progressively more detail on the
>>>> device status.
>>>> The top level of the tree shows "device has problems"; the next level
>>>> shows "line card 3 has problems"; the next level shows "Interface 3/2
>>>> has problems"; the next level shows "Interface 3/2 has no media".
>>>> However, I think the concepts of root cause resources and impacted
>>>> resources are more useful than this hierarchy.
>>> Why wouldn't this be possible with the model we propose?
>> I think you are talking about a very useful application in the management 
>> system.
>> This does not mean the exact same view need to available in the alarm 
>> interface.
>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> /martin
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