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To support multi-tenant networking in Ironic we need to be able to discover not just the NICs a baremetal machine has but also the physical connectivity to switches in the network. This patch collects LLDP (Link Layer Discovery Protocol) data as part of the list interfaces stage of the generic hardware manager. This information can then be processed by the ironic inspector to populate the local link information on each ironic port. The processing done on this data in ironic python agent is limited, this is to allow for server side processing hooks to process as much or as little of the data as they want. This is to allow for multi-vendor environments that might use different parts of the LLDP packet to use a generic ramdisk and configure the processing server side using inspector plugins. Reserved fields switch_port_descr and switch_chassis_descr have been deprecated for removal in Ocata in favor of passing the whole packet. Change-Id: Idae9b1ede1797029da1bd521501b121957ca1f1a Partial-Bug: #1526403
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features:
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- Add support for LLDP data in the returned inventory when option
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collect_lldp is set to True. Each interface returned in the inventory that
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receives an LLDP packet will contain the whole LLDP packet represented as a
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list of TLVs in the field 'lldp'.
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upgrade:
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- Deprecated reserved fields switch_port_descr and switch_chassis_descr in
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favor of returning the whole LLDP packet for each interface so that IPA
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processing of this data remains generic and full processing can be
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customised server side instead of having to create custom ramdisks. These
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fields will be removed in Ocata.
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