[ixpmanager] Change in bird template

[Barry O'Donovan]

Vladislav Bidikov wrote on 24/10/2018 11:37:
> I would agree on the functionalities... but running a full PHP + web 
> server on the RS for BirdsEye seems like a overkill to me 😊

PHP + lighttpd vs Go + Go web server. Not sure I see the difference.

Although I should update the docs for PHP + PHP-FPM -> then it's 
unarguably equivalent.

I'm certainly not telling you to change, but the logic presented above 
doesn't stack up. The feature divergence will also only increase.

  - Barry

> 
> Birdwatcher is a very low profile Go application (you can build it 
> without dependencies) and later i can add it to Alice-LG which can live 
> on the same web server as IXP manager ...
> 
> 
> Hope to have best of both worlds soon ...
> 
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> 
> -- 
> 
> V.B
> 
> FCC
> 
> 
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> *From:* Barry O'Donovan <barry.odonovan at inex.ie>
> *Sent:* Wednesday, October 24, 2018 8:21:54 AM
> *To:* Vladislav Bidikov
> *Cc:* INEX IXP Manager Users Mailing List
> *Subject:* Re: [ixpmanager] Change in bird template
> 
> 
> Vladislav Bidikov wrote on 24/10/2018 00:16:
>> Birdwatcher parses the output of birdc and expects (for now) the time 
>> format to be iso long. You need to configure
>> 
>> timeformat base         iso long;
>> timeformat log          iso long;
>> timeformat protocol     iso long;
>> timeformat route        iso long;
>> 
>> in your /etc/bird[6].conf for birdwatcher to work.
> 
> Oh, nice. We should add that to the route server templates by default
> since Bird's default is pretty inconsistent:
> 
>   > By default, BIRD uses the iso short ms format for route and
>   > protocol times, and the iso long ms format for base and log times.
> 
> Note that BirdsEye supports Bird's default.
> 
>> So this needs to be added to the bird.conf template so auto-generation 
>> works as expected...
>> 
>> Any programmatic way to achieve this ?
> 
> Yeah, skin [1] this file:
> 
> https://git.io/v94mn
> 
> 
> Note that while using Alice-LG is a fine, it has no direct integration
> into IXP Manager. BirdsEye was written explicitly for this purpose and
> we have a number of planned features for Q4 2018 / Q1 2019 which will
> require BirdsEye (no reason BirdsEye and Alice-LG cannot both be used by
> the way).
> 
> BirdsEye sits nicely into IXP Manager, e.g.:
> 
> https://www.inex.ie/ixp/lg/rc1-lan1-ipv4
> 
>    - Barry
> 
> [1] https://docs.ixpmanager.org/features/skinning/
> 
> 
> 


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Barry O'Donovan
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