Subject: [netmod] Hope to start coding to this soon

From: "[email-masked]" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2013 16:49:54 -0400

New to the list as of today, but after the call for operators in the meeting today, I wanted to say that I hope to start coding to this soon.  We have already built a tool and associated web service to execute cmds on devices that uses a vendor API where it can or ssh (or telnet as a last resort) where it has to.  As the next step, I will be adding some tasks that will return a vendor agnostic data structure and plan to leverage the YANG model (instead of making up one for myself).  As I start rolling on this, I hope to be able to provide more operational-centric feedback.

The current plan is to be able to be able to write front-end tools and scripts that expect a YANG model and have the web service API parse the text output of non-compliant vendors.  Ideally, as more vendors jump on board, I can start ripping out this parsing code.

Additionally, our current tool already has implemented pretty extensive vendor-agnostic acl handling, so I will also be looking at the LOE of converting our structure to be compliant with these drafts.

-Mike Biancaniello

(see http://trigger.readthedocs.org/en/latest/api/acl.html iyi in the acl parsing.  all code is on https://github.com/aol/trigger )