[ixpmanager] Change in bird template

[Andrius Lisikas]

Hi,

Just my personal view from limited experience is that once birdwatcher is
compiled with Go, it is very easily portable to other systems without any
need for additional software except its own binary and configuration file.

On Wed, Oct 24, 2018 at 2:09 PM Barry O'Donovan <barry.odonovan at inex.ie>
wrote:

>
>
> 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
> >
> >
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > *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/
> >
> >
> >
>
>
> --
>
> Kind regards,
> Barry O'Donovan
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>
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