[ixpmanager] LG API for Juniper/Junos

[Tomasz Szewczyk]

Hi Barry,

I tried to "cheat" your birdseye API, by sending my own reply formatted
in the way how bird server does it. However it looks to me once IXP
manager receives reply it compares some of the fields with its
configuration statements for given RS. I'm not generating Junos config
from IXP Manager (at least not yet), but I'm wondering if the reply
check can be somehow disabled in IXP manager?

br

Tomek

W dniu 11.04.2020 o 16:53, Barry O'Donovan pisze:
> Hi Tomek,
>
> Tomasz Szewczyk wrote on 10/04/2020 09:29:
>> I'd like to use IXP Manager with Juniper/Junos baser Route Server.
>> Could you give me some hints about IXP manager requirements for API
>> type "Other" or what are requirements of IXP manager related to API
>> answers?
>
> Thanks for your interest in this.
>
> Route server configuration generation is fairly complex as it involves
> a lot of components. Fortunately, for adding a new route server, much
> of this is done including:
>
> - customer and connection details
> - IRRDB AS and prefix lists
> - filtering preferences
>
> The way in which IXP Manager generates route server config is entirely
> integrated into many other IXP Manager features including:
>
> - looking glass (multiple diffferent features)
> - monitoring (Nagios for example)
> - API
> - member community filtering preferences via UI (not released yet)
>
>
> We do still plan to look at OpenBGPd during 2020 as an equal-class
> alternative to Bird. This would mean updating the Birdseye looking
> glass also to parse OpenBGPd output and provide programmatic access to
> it via an API. It's a big job.
>
> We previously looked at JunOS with one of Juniper's BGP experts but it
> was quite difficult and complex to configure it up as a multi-RIB
> route server.
>
> To you specific question - the only looking glass / API that is
> currently supported by IXP Manager is Birdseye. We created this
> specifically for Bird for IXP Manager's use but more generically so
> that it could be used separately:
>
> https://github.com/inex/birdseye
>
> Any API that can be programmed to this interface should be fine:
>
> https://github.com/inex/IXP-Manager/blob/master/app/Contracts/LookingGlass.php
>
>
> But if you plan to do this, please talk to me in detail as we should
> review the API calls, formatting, etc. in respect to other daemons -
> JunOS, OpenBGPd, GoBGP, etc.
>
> Thanks,
>  - Barry
>
>
>
>
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>
>>
>> br
>>
>> Tomek
>>
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