Issue#3500 : Redfish configuration backup and restore function

Sat Mar 5 01:46:19 AEDT 2022

On Mar 4, 2022, at 3:53 AM, Sandeep Kumar <sandeep.pkumar at tcs.com<mailto:sandeep.pkumar at tcs.com>> wrote:

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Hi Patrick/Adriana,

Thanks for the information. Trying to access the link provided for the issue : https://github.com/DMTF/Redfish/issues/3430 . But looks like it is not accessible. Could you please point to the correct link?

Hi. Right, need to subscribe to the DMTF and request access since it’s a private repo. Here are the instructions I got from Gunnar a while back:

First, join the DMTF: https://www.dmtf.org/join Join as "an individual employee of a current member company".  Use your company email since only member companies get access.
Second: Join the "Redfish Forum" working group. https://members.dmtf.org/workgroup/index  Menu > Group > All Groups -- Select "Redfish Forum". You can use OpenBMC for the reason why you are joining.
Third: Send an email to the redfish forum chair with your GitHub Id, asking for access to github.com/DMTF/Redfish<http://github.com/DMTF/Redfish> (email address will be should be included with "Approved for membership to Redfish” )
Link to redfish forum: https://redfishforum.com/

Thanks,
Sandeep.

From: Adriana Kobylak <anoo at us.ibm.com<mailto:anoo at us.ibm.com>>
Sent: Friday, March 4, 2022 2:19 AM
To: Patrick Williams <patrick at stwcx.xyz<mailto:patrick at stwcx.xyz>>
Cc: Sandeep Kumar <sandeep.pkumar at tcs.com<mailto:sandeep.pkumar at tcs.com>>; Gunnar Mills <gmills at us.ibm.com<mailto:gmills at us.ibm.com>>; openbmc at lists.ozlabs.org<mailto:openbmc at lists.ozlabs.org>
Subject: Re: Issue#3500 : Redfish configuration backup and restore function

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On Mar 3, 2022, at 1:48 PM, Patrick Williams <patrick at stwcx.xyz<mailto:patrick at stwcx.xyz>> wrote:

On Wed, Mar 02, 2022 at 07:54:30AM +0000, Sandeep Kumar wrote:

Hi,

While looking at the issues list, came across this. We would like to take this up and work on it. Any help to getting up to speed would help.

Thanks,
Sandeep.

https://github.com/openbmc/openbmc/issues/3500

It looked like this was an issue that was of interest originally to IBM?  The
design was abandoned in Gerrit and there appears to have been no progress at the
DMTF on Redfish interfaces.

Gunnar and Adriana, can you weigh in?

Hi, yes, IBM was and is still interested in this feature but has been lower priority. I met with the DMTF a while back and they have agreed on the need to have this functionality and have made recommendations on the implementation, they are just asking for a volunteer to propose the schema, their guideline is to support a blob specific to the implementation (instead of specific interfaces to backup/restore) and have the implementation decide on the format and handling/decoding of the blob. The binary blob would be uploaded using the existing Redfish multipart form.

For the discussion details you can subscribe to the DMTF github and look at issue: https://github.com/DMTF/Redfish/issues/3430

It’d be of great help to submit the schema proposal and get it through the approval process, the schema would not be very complex, then the next step would be to discuss within OpenBMC how we want to handle the blob and what data we want backed up / restored.

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Patrick Williams

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