[ovs-dev] Regarding implementing support for SNMP protocol

[Shreyas Shetty]

Hi,
So for now I want to work towards this two use cases
i) to discover topology and changes at the link level (up or down).
ii) to gather port statistics on regular basis.

On Thu, Sep 7, 2017 at 6:15 PM, Miguel Angel Ajo Pelayo <majopela at redhat.com
> wrote:

> What kind of information would you like to expose via SNMP?
> do you already have any examples in mind?
>
> You could have an independent SMTP agent querying SBDB & the local OVSDB
> on every chassis. I believe a separate agent would make a better separation
> of concerns.
>
> On Thu, Sep 7, 2017 at 8:29 AM, Shreyas Shetty <
> shetty.shreyas9796 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> I am just starting out learning about OVS. My mentor suggested a possible
>> work area of implementing support for SNMP protocol inside OVS. I was
>> wondering if someone had attempted it before?
>> If yes, what was the way they went about it? Is there some thread where it
>> was discussed?
>> If not, what would be architectural wise best way to implement a platform
>> independent plugin?
>> Would a wrapper around ovn-controller be a good idea, or can a SNMP agent(
>> modified) querying the database directly a better idea?
>> Sorry, if my ideas seem vague, I'm still learning about OVS.
>> Cheers to all the good work being done here!
>> Thank you,
>> Shreyas
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Thank you,
Shreyas