[Bmcweb/Redfish] Chassis Physical Connectivity Support on bmcweb

[Willy Tu]

Related doc for the Chassis Inventory Connections:
https://gerrit.openbmc-project.xyz/c/openbmc/docs/+/41468

On Mon, Jun 7, 2021 at 6:22 PM Willy Tu <wltu at google.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I am thinking about adding better support for Physical Connectivity
> between Boards/Chassises in bmcweb. Since Inventory.Board is treated as a
> chassis, I want to have a way to better connect the different boards with
> the existing ContainedBy/Contains.
>
> I was thinking of using xyz.openbmc_project.Association to do it. Since
> it is a list with fixed order, we can use the first chassis it finds
> for ContainedBy and the rest for Contains. For the root Chassis, it will
> have itself as the first Chassis and then just not include it.
>
> Is this something we can work with? or do we need something more
> complicated to support chassis relationship?
>
> ----
>
> Another question that is kind of related.
> I am also thinking about using Physical Location for each Chassis.
> It is already using `xyz.openbmc_project.Inventory.Decorator.LocationCode`
> as the ServiceLabel
> https://github.com/openbmc/bmcweb/blob/90e97e1d26b78d899a543831a8051dacbbdde71a/redfish-core/lib/chassis.hpp#L295-L331
>
> With that in mind, I am wondering how LocationCode is configured with
> EntityManager? Since the number of FRUs is dynamic, there is no way to tell
> which location the FRU is connected to without a mapping. I am wondering
> how that can be done with Entity Manager.
>
> I was thinking of doing something like getEntityName
> <https://github.com/openbmc/google-ipmi-sys/blob/3b1b427c1fa4bcddcab1fc003410e5fa5d7a8334/handler.cpp#L235> in
> IPMI OEM handler which utilizes a json file for the mapping from entity
> instance to location. This is a simple way of doing it within
> EntityManager, but I am not sure if we want to do it this way.
>
> Maybe something related?
> https://gerrit.openbmc-project.xyz/c/openbmc/entity-manager/+/42971
>
> Best,
>
> Willy Tu
>
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