<html><body><p><font size="2">Hi Michael,</font><br><br><font size="2">Thanks for enumerating the attributes for comparison.</font><br><br><font size="2">I want to list down a few additional criteria that may be evaluated:<br><br>1) Data-Driven Resource Discovery:</font><br><font size="2"> - The Redfish server should ideally build it's resource model from a "config file". This config file could potentially be hand-coded or built out of a "system definition file". The following are examples of system definition files for 2 of the systems currently running OpenBMC firmware.<br></font><a href="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/open-power/zaius-xml/master/zaius.xml"><font size="2">https://raw.githubusercontent.com/open-power/zaius-xml/master/zaius.xml</font></a><br><a href="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/open-power/witherspoon-xml/master/witherspoon.xml"><font size="2">https://raw.githubusercontent.com/open-power/witherspoon-xml/master/witherspoon.xml</font></a><br><font size="2">The system architecture (sled vs blade etc.), number of processors, number of fans etc. can be determined from the system definition file to generate the config file. </font><br><br><font size="2">The intent is to make the redfish implementation as system agnostic as possible.</font><br><font size="2"><br>2) Separation of the Redfish front-end (view) and back-end (infrastructure) layers. The infrastructure API exposed as dbus services would be one of the means to make this separation of concerns.</font><br><br><font size="2">3) Performance :</font><br><font size="2"> - Runtime memory foot print.This could potentially have a negative impact on "how fast" the server is. Hence the trade-off should consider what can be cached vs what needs to be queried from the infrastructure.</font><br><font size="2"> - Michael, why did you consider SSL being separately implemented by the Redfish server? Would this be in the scope of the webserver ?</font><br><br><font size="2">4) Eventing: Current version of the Redfish spec has left it open for the OEMs to define the specific Event Messages. i.e. there is no standard / common Event Registry. Redfish server implementation on the OpenBMC should define this common Event Registry and perhaps accepted by DMTF. Does the Eventing support filtering of events based on the event type, source resource and the message Id ?</font><br><br><font size="2">5) Leverage existing open source projects:<br> - Does the implementation compose existing services and frameworks ? Such as a webserver(say, nginx) and a rest framework (flask).</font><br><br><font size="2">regards,</font><br><font size="2">Hari !</font><br><br><br><img width="16" height="16" src="cid:1__=EABB08B4DFB54A7B8f9e8a93df938690918cEAB@" border="0" alt="Inactive hide details for ---01/31/2018 10:17:36 PM---So, I think that the first thing we ought to do is get a survey of the di"><font size="2" color="#424282">---01/31/2018 10:17:36 PM---So, I think that the first thing we ought to do is get a survey of the different implementations tha</font><br><br><font size="2" color="#5F5F5F">From: </font><font size="2"><Michael.E.Brown@dell.com></font><br><font size="2" color="#5F5F5F">To: </font><font size="2"><bradleyb@fuzziesquirrel.com></font><br><font size="2" color="#5F5F5F">Cc: </font><font size="2"><alirhas@microsoft.com>, <Balaji.B.Rao@dell.com>, <Paul.Vancil@dell.com>, <ed.tanous@intel.com>, <rolfb@us.ibm.com>, <jwcarman@us.ibm.com>, <hramasub@in.ibm.com>, <pradeep.kumar36@tcs.com>, <openbmc@lists.ozlabs.org></font><br><font size="2" color="#5F5F5F">Date: </font><font size="2">01/31/2018 10:17 PM</font><br><font size="2" color="#5F5F5F">Subject: </font><font size="2">RE: Redfish on OpenBMC</font><br><hr width="100%" size="2" align="left" noshade style="color:#8091A5; "><br><br><br><tt><font size="2">So, I think that the first thing we ought to do is get a survey of the different implementations that are out there, and establish criteria for judging different implementations.<br><br>Here would be a list of questions I would have for everybody on the list. I think it would probably be best to compile all of these into a wiki page somewhere.<br><br> - Do you have a redfish server implementation?<br> - Is it Open Source?<br> - If not, are you planning on open sourcing it?<br> - What is the license?<br> - Is it posted to github or other public source control?<br> - Does it pass the DMTF redfish service validator?<br> - What language is it written in?<br> - How big is it?<br> - Can it be easily extended/re-used by anybody else shipping compliant openbmc implementations?<br> - Can you add OEM extensions to existing Redfish Resources without "forking" the codebase?<br> - Can you change the implementation for a single Redfish Resource Property without forking?<br> - Can you add new Redfish Resources without forking?<br> - Performance<br> - How fast is it?<br> - Does it implement SSL?<br> - Security<br> - What is the security model?<br> - Non-root support? Can it run as a non-privileged user?<br> - Does it implement basic authentication and the redfish spec x-auth-token authentication?<br> - Does it implement the redfish standard privilege map model?<br> - Eventing:<br> - For writing a UI on top of redfish, something like SSE is a nice-to-have to avoid polling in the browser. There are a couple of proposed SSE extensions that have not yet been approved.<br> - How much work to implement SSE support to do things like watch Property changes?<br> - Is the standard redfish eventing model supported?<br> - Security model integrated with eventing? Do eventing records get the same security treatment as GET requests?<br> - Development: can it run outside of openbmc?<br> - Special sauce: is there anything not captured above that makes the implementation special in any way?<br><br>--<br>Michael<br><br>-----Original Message-----<br>From: Brad Bishop [</font></tt><tt><font size="2"><a href="mailto:bradleyb@fuzziesquirrel.com">mailto:bradleyb@fuzziesquirrel.com</a></font></tt><tt><font size="2">] <br>Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2018 7:30 PM<br>To: Brown, Michael E <Michael_E_Brown@Dell.com><br>Cc: alirhas@microsoft.com; Rao, Balaji B <Balaji_B_Rao@dell.com>; Vancil, Paul <Paul_Vancil@Dell.com>; Tanous, Ed <ed.tanous@intel.com>; rolfb@us.ibm.com; jwcarman@us.ibm.com; Hariharasubramanian Ramasubramanian <hramasub@in.ibm.com>; pradeep.kumar36@tcs.com; OpenBMC Maillist <openbmc@lists.ozlabs.org><br>Subject: Redfish on OpenBMC<br><br>Hi Michael<br><br>The project could really use someone to get everyone that has expressed interest in the future of Redfish support in OpenBMC rowing in the same direction. So thank you for volunteering to lead that conversation at the community call yesterday.<br><br>I’ve CC’ed everyone that I know of that has expressed an interest.<br>OpenBMC community: feel free to speak up if you’d like to be involved and I forgot you.<br><br>The only thing I’d ask is to please post links to any meetings, minutes, or correspondence here on the list, so everyone can easily keep up with how things are going or jump in to provide feedback.<br><br>thanks again<br><br>-brad<br></font></tt><br><br><BR>
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