notification scripts ?

[Maria Matejka]

On 2023-12-13 11:28, Nigel Kukard wrote:
>
>
> On 12/13/23 10:14, Maria Matejka via Bird-users wrote:
>>
>> Hello!
>>
>> On 2023-12-13 10:19, Kees Meijs | Nefos wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> On 12-12-2023 17:20, Maria Matejka via Bird-users wrote:
>>>> We're prototyping a machine-friendly interface which should 
>>>> include, in some later versions, also subscribing to various 
>>>> notifications.
>>>
>>> Hear hear! Probably asked before, but being integrated (albeit with 
>>> a shim) in SNMP would be lovely.
>>
>> We are finishing some SNMP support as well but mostly we're trying to 
>> have a YANG-defined API encoded in CBOR. And because this is quite a 
>> new technology, we may create some relevant tools during the process; 
>> if anybody is interested in some specifics, we may keep you informed 
>> about the development.
>>
> Any API interface that can acquire the data available with birdc 
> commands would be very greatly appreciated. Even if the commands just 
> hand an option to return results were in some machine readable format 
> like JSON. I currently have a python daemon that connects to the 
> control socket which is rather tedious in terms of parsing all the 
> command outputs. :)
>
No JSON and no XML will get into mainline BIRD, it's a performance 
nightmare. I admit that we are taking our time to introduce the 
CBOR/YANG API, OTOH we wanna make it good enough to last for some … 
decades? without substantial changes.

Thank you for your patience.
Maria

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Maria Matejka (she/her) | BIRD Team Leader | CZ.NIC, z.s.p.o.
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