[ixpmanager] some questions re: IXP 5

[Barry O'Donovan]

Hi,

Athanasios Douitsis wrote on 29/10/2019 12:48:
> - We have setup the latest BirdsEye in our route servers and have
>    successfully integrated with a test 5.2 installation. The looking
>    glass in our 5.2 installation detects prefixes that are being
>    filtered, by examining their BGP large community. All good as far as
>    we can tell. However, when we look at the "filtered prefixes" tab in
>    any member's page, we see no filtered prefixes. Can we inquire as to
>    which exactly is the interdependency between what is seen in the
>    looking glass and what is seen in the per-member "filtered prefixes"
>    tab? How do we get to see (if possible) the filtered prefixes in the
>    tab?

Have a look at the documentation here:

https://docs.ixpmanager.org/features/route-servers/#displaying-filtered-prefixes 


and this issue:

https://github.com/inex/IXP-Manager/issues/575

and let us know if that doesn't answer your question. I'll revisit the 
documentation to try and incorporate the additional information in the 
issue.

> - Does the update-l2database.pl script still stand as the way to fill in
>    the dynamic mac addresses in the macaddresses table?  The
>    https://docs.ixpmanager.org/usage/switches/#automated-polling-snmp-updates 
>
>    and the https://docs.ixpmanager.org/features/cronjobs/ pages do not
>    mention it, but https://docs.ixpmanager.org/features/layer2-addresses/
>    does mention it. Running it periodically certainly does not cause
>    trouble.

Yes, it still stands.

> - Going from 4.8 to 5.2 using the artisan subcommands to bring the
>    database up to date, does not create the telescope-related tables.
>    What is the recommended way to create them?

I'll have to look at that and get back to you.

> - Likewise, how is the cache table (if one chooses to use a database
>    cache instead of files or memcached) supposed to be created and
>    initialized?

It's not supported right now. We've never used or tried it.

> - This is a trifling matter, but the field last_updated in the routers
>    table will be left NULL if going from 4.8 to 5.2, which will cause a
>    5xx error in the application. We are not sure this is mentioned
>    explicitly in any documentation page.

I'll also check this and get back to you.

    - Barry


>
> If any of the above has been asked again, my apologies for the
> duplicate. Any help with any item will be highly appreciated.
>
> Kind regards,
>


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Kind regards,
Barry O'Donovan
INEX Operations

https://www.inex.ie/support/
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