SimpleStorage proposals

[Nan Zhou]

Thanks for your reply, Ed!


> You've also omitted what properties you're trying to target.  Could
> you walk through a little bit about what you're trying to accomplish
> with this?  (beyond just "implement the redfish schemas).  Are you
> trying to get smart data?  just inventory information?  Do you plan to
> represent connections?


As a first step, we are only going to implement three properties, Name,
Presence, and PowerStatus. We don't plan to represent connections at the
moment.

On Wed, May 19, 2021 at 1:43 PM Ed Tanous <ed at tanous.net> wrote:

> On Wed, May 19, 2021 at 12:57 AM Jun-Lin Chen (陳俊霖)
> <Jun-Lin.Chen at quantatw.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> >
> >
> > In order to implement the feature to view simple storage device status,
> such SATA HDD presence status.
> >
> > We propose to implement it on the Redfish SimpleStorage URI.
> >
> >
> >
> > As our proposal for Redfish SimpleStorage,
> https://gerrit.openbmc-project.xyz/c/openbmc/docs/+/43352
> >
> > And an new daemon,
> https://gerrit.openbmc-project.xyz/c/openbmc/docs/+/43351
> >
> >
> >
> > There are two new dbus-interfaces to be proposed,
> >
> > xyz.openbmc_project.Inventory.Item.StorageDevice: here is an empty
> interface just mark the dbus path that SimpleStorage Manager should collect.
> >
> > xyz.openbmc_project.Inventory.Item.SimpleStorage: it should have the
> properties redfish needs, and can be parser by bmcweb.
>
>
> How does this differ from xyz.openbmc_project.Inventory.Item.Drive?
> They look fairly similar;  We generally don't name dbus interfaces
> after Redfish directly.  We should reuse what already exists where
> possible, and only invent new things where needed.
>
> You've also omitted what properties you're trying to target.  Could
> you walk through a little bit about what you're trying to accomplish
> with this?  (beyond just "implement the redfish schemas).  Are you
> trying to get smart data?  just inventory information?  Do you plan to
> represent connections?
>
> >
> >
> >
> > The details are in the proposal.
> >
> >
> >
> > Welcome and thank you for comments and suggestions
> >
> >
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> > Jun-Lin Chen
> >
> >
>
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