6750 Add support for post-install LLDP configuration #7132
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6751 Add support for extracting LLDP neighbor information
| // The LLDP configuration has been defined as a leaf of the switch-port-settings | ||
| // tree, and is identified in the database with a UUID stored in that tree. | ||
| // Using the uuid as the target argument for the config operations would be | ||
| // reasonable, and similar in spirit to the link configuration operations. | ||
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| // On the other hand, the neighbors are discovered on a configured link, but the | ||
| // data is otherwise completely independent of the configuration. Furthermore, | ||
| // the questions answered by the neighbor information have to do with the | ||
| // physical connections between the Oxide rack and the upstream, datacenter | ||
| // switch. Accordingly, it seems more appropriate to use the physical | ||
| // rack/switch/port triple to identify the port of interest for the neighbors | ||
| // query. | ||
| // | ||
| // For consistency across the lldp operations, all use rack/switch/port rather | ||
| // than the uuid. | ||
| // XXX: Is this the right call? The other options being: uuid for all | ||
| // operations, or uuid for config and r/s/p for neighbors. |
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Is there a reason LLDP configuration should be a part of the switch-port-settings object, aside from everything else also being there? I think it can be argued that we could migrate it out and make the CREATE operation consistent with the other paths that have been defined for the GET and UPDATE methods.
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I could go back and look at the git history to be sure, but I think they've been there for as long as we've have switch port settings in the database. These are settings that belong to a specific port on the switch, so I'm not sure where else they would go? The settings themselves have their own table - the switch-port-settings just has a link to that table.
If you have something specific in mind, I'd be happy to tackle that as follow-on work. This is already a pretty chunky PR and doesn't include any database changes, so I'd rather not weigh it down with a db restructure as well.
6751 Add support for extracting LLDP neighbor information