[ixpmanager] some questions re: IXP 5

[Athanasios Douitsis]

On Mon, Nov 04, 2019 at 01:37:00PM +0000, Barry O'Donovan wrote:

> 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.

Okay. So how do we tell IXP Manager to go ask the BirdsEyes for the list
of their prefixes? Is there a special artisan command to accomplish
that?

Kind regards,
Athanasios

> 
>  - Barry
> 
> 

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Athanasios Douitsis
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