Proposal for the connected redfish client info

[Ratan Gupta]

Hi Team,

Looking for your inputs

James, How about option1 for the below use case

Ratan

On 3/11/20 3:48 PM, Ratan Gupta wrote:
>
> Hi Team,
>
> In IBM we have a following requirement
>
>   * Show the connected redfish client info.
>       o   ClientIP
>       o   Client Unique Identifier(unique serial number of the client etc)
>
>
> Presently there is no way through which we can get this info.
>
> I have following two proposal for the above requirement.
>
> 1/ (Extend the session schema)
>
> Add the IPaddress and the client Identifier as a OEM in the session 
> schema,
> Clinet IP would be read only and will be updated once the redfish 
> client creates the session.
> ClientIdentifier(Management console unique serial number etc) will be 
> writable property and can be set by the redfish client
> during creation of the session or after creating the session.
>
>
> 2/ (Create the Manager object at runtime)
> once the redfish client creates the session , bmcweb internally does 
> the following
>
> - Create the manager object whose type is "Management Controller".
>
> - Create the ethernet interface resource manager resource and update 
> the client IP.
>
>    In the second option how to set the Client unique identifier which 
> is to be given by the Redfish client
>
>  Please let me know your thoughts on the above.
>
> Ratan
>
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