Management of equipment rooms and racks

[italobusi]

Evaluate whether there is a requirement to manage the equipment rooms and racks and how to manage them.

It is worth noting that if racks are managed, the shelves will have two parents: the rack and the NE.

[italobusi]

Network Inventory weekly call (October 6, 2021)

Italo asked if equipment rooms and racks information should be part or not of the model, since these info are not part of the node as shelf, boards etc .

Oscar: the inventory system has this information but it is not needed for the network inventory retrieved at the NBI of a controller since this information should be added manually anyway

Fabio: in TIM we are using the equipment rooms and racks to identify the equipment otherwise it is not easy to identify them

Oscar: the issue is whether this information should be provided by the controller or by a separated entity, but it might be an operator-specific decision

Fabio asked if these information about equipment room and racks could be "optional" in the model.

• [x] @agva123 @italobusi : check if it is possible to define the YANG model allowing optional support for equipment-room and racks

[italobusi]

• [x] @agva123 @italobusi : check if it is possible to define the YANG model allowing optional support for equipment-room and racks

augment nw:networks/nw:network:
+--ro equipment-room [name] {equipment-room}
   +--ro name
   +--ro rack* [rack-id]
      +--ro name   uint8
      +--ro shelf* [shelf-id]
         +--ro shelf-id   uint8
         +--ro chassi-ref  leafref to chassis component

Co-authored-by: agva123 agva123@gmail.com Co-authored-by: italobusi italo.busi@gmail.com

[italobusi]

Network Inventory weekly call (October 13, 2021)

The general approach is agreed to keep equipment-room as an optional list

Fabio: in addition to equipment-room and racks, we need the rows/lines

To be further discussed whether to put the rows within the model or in the rack naming convention

[oscargdd]

As far as I see, a full network inventory model is something much bigger than a network "discovered" inventory model.

In my view, they are different things, as one needs to be filled by the network operator, and the other that can be automatically discovered

[italobusi]

2022-09-14 Network Inventory weekly call

The issue can be closed after a feature to make the reporting of the equipment-rooms optional needs to be defined

• [ ] @italobusi @aguoietf propose YANG model updates to make the reporting of the equipment rooms optional: https://github.com/italobusi/ietf-network-inventory/issues/8#issuecomment-942252565

[italobusi]

Note: the issue is still open since the model should be updated to make reporting of the equipment rooms optional

[YuChaode]

2023-06-28 weekly meeting: the modeling of equipment-room are related to the discussion of site, we suggest to close this issue after we are aligned with #86 .