[ixpmanager] some questions re: IXP 5

[Barry O'Donovan]

Hi Athanasios,

Athanasios Douitsis wrote on 01/11/2019 15:13:
>> Athanasios Douitsis wrote on 31/10/2019 14:31:> I'll hold it, because the
>> other issue we are seeing with the filtered
>>> prefixes might be remotely connected with that one. Our last_updated
>>> fields do not get, well, updated at all like I said in my previous
>>> email.
>>
>> This field gets updated by an API call:
>>
>> https://docs.ixpmanager.org/features/routers/#updated-api
>>
>> We have sample update scripts when configuring routers from IXP Manager
>> which hit this API:
>>
>> https://git.io/Jez5z
>>
>>
>> I'm not sure what your workflow is but it doesn't update by just pulling a
>> router config from IXP Manager - the idea is that it gets updated by the
>> script which actually pulls and applies the new configuration /when/ the
>> script knows that it has completed successfully.
> 
> Hello,
> 
> This api call above will also trigger the IXP Manager to go ask the
> birdseyes for the list of prefixes?

No, this api call purely updates the router's last updated timestamp.

 - Barry