Interface towards the NetExplorer
The NetExplorerProxy (NEP) represents the demarcation towards the out-of-sdn-domain application NetExplorer.
In principle, the NetExplorerProxy is a passthrough of data from the MWDI (MicroWaveDeviceInventory) and the MATR (MacAddressTableRecorder).
The following data shall be provided:
- MAC address table content of the devices
The following performance criteria shall be kept:
- No real-time data required (Information to be taken from MATR)
- Retrieval of the data at least once a day
- Throttling accepted:
- Maximum 10 requests for current (live network) MAC address tables in parallel
- Maximum 100 requests for current (live network) MAC address tables per day
- Data integrity according to quality of MATR content
With v1.0.0 additional data shall be provided:
- general device and interface information, including linkbundling information
- sfp data (wire-interface)
For this release, the NEP shall fetch the required data into its cache in periodic intervals.
All requests from Netexplorer, not related to Mac address data, shall be served using this cached data only,
i.e. there will be no retrieval of data on demand.
Scope
- Note: sync data has been requested by Netexplorer team, but sync data offered by SDN is not what is needed by Netexplorer and, therefore, sync is out of scope.
- updates due to notifications from MWDI are out of scope for this release
- PM data provisioning is also out of scope
- a new application will be introduced, which will gather the PM data from MWDI and cache it
- NEP and other applications (e.g. MycomButler) then can retrieve the data they need from this new application
- this application has not been specified, yet
The NetExplorerProxy serves as a proxy to a planning and simulation tool for regular use.
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