NETCONF A.B. Bierman
Internet-Draft Brocade
Intended status: Standards Track March 09, 2011
Expires: September 10, 2011

Network Configuration Protocol System Notifications
draft-ietf-netconf-system-notifications-03

Abstract

The NETCONF protocol provides mechanisms to manipulate configuration datastores. However, client applications often need to be aware of common NETCONF system events such as a change in NETCONF capabilities, which may impact management applications. Standard mechanisms are needed to support the monitoring of the NETCONF system events within the NETCONF server. This document defines a YANG module which allows a NETCONF client to receive notifications for some common events.

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Table of Contents

1. Introduction

The NETCONF protocol [I-D.ietf-netconf-4741bis] provides mechanisms to manipulate configuration datastores. However, client applications often need to be aware of common NETCONF system events such as a change in NETCONF capabilities, which may impact management applications. Standard mechanisms are needed to support the monitoring of the NETCONF system events within the NETCONF server. This document defines a YANG module [RFC6020] which allows a NETCONF client to receive notifications for some common events.

1.1. Terminology

The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT", "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this document are to be interpreted as described in [RFC2119].

The following terms are defined in [I-D.ietf-netconf-4741bis]:

The following terms are defined in [RFC5277]:

The following term is defined in [RFC6020]:

2. YANG Module for NETCONF System Notifications

2.1. Overview

The YANG module defined within this document specifies a small number of notification event messages for use within the 'NETCONF' stream, and accessible to clients via the subscription mechanism in [RFC5277].

These notifications pertain to the NETCONF portion of the managed system, not the entire system.

The YANG language is defined in [RFC6020].

2.1.1. Notifications

This module defines some events for the 'NETCONF' stream to notify a client application that the NETCONF server state has changed.

2.2. Definitions


<CODE BEGINS> file="ietf-netconf-system-notifications@2011-03-08.yang"

module ietf-netconf-system-notifications {

   namespace 
     "urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:yang:ietf-netconf-system-notifications";

   prefix ncsys;

   import ietf-inet-types { prefix inet; }
   import ietf-netconf { prefix nc; }

   organization
    "IETF NETCONF (Network Configuration Protocol) Working Group";

   contact
    "WG Web:   <http://tools.ietf.org/wg/netconf/>
     WG List:  <mailto:netconf@ietf.org>

     WG Chair: Bert Wijnen
               <mailto:bertietf@bwijnen.net>

     WG Chair: Mehmet Ersue
               <mailto:mehmet.ersue@nsn.com>

     Editor: Andy Bierman
             <mailto:andy.bierman@brocade.com>";

   description
    "This module defines an YANG data model for use with the 
     NETCONF protocol that allows the NETCONF client to 
     receive common NETCONF system notification events.

     Copyright (c) 2011 IETF Trust and the persons identified as
     the document authors.  All rights reserved.

     Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or
     without modification, is permitted pursuant to, and subject
     to the license terms contained in, the Simplified BSD License
     set forth in Section 4.c of the IETF Trust's Legal Provisions
     Relating to IETF Documents
     (http://trustee.ietf.org/license-info).

     This version of this YANG module is part of RFC XXXX; see
     the RFC itself for full legal notices.";
   // RFC Ed.: replace XXXX with actual RFC number and remove this note

   // RFC Ed.: remove this note
   // Note: extracted from 
   // draft-ietf-netconf-system-notifications-03.txt

   revision 2011-03-08 {
     description
       "Initial version.";
     reference
      "RFC XXXX: NETCONF System Notifications";
   }
   // RFC Ed.: replace XXXX with actual 
   // RFC number and remove this note


  grouping common-session-parms {
    leaf username {
      description 
        "Name of the user for the session.";
      type string;
      mandatory true;
    }

    leaf session-id {
      description 
        "Identifier of the session.
         A non-NETCONF session will be identified by the value zero.";
      type nc:session-id-or-zero-type;
      mandatory true;
    }

    leaf source-host {
      description
        "Address of the remote host for the session.";
      type inet:ip-address;
    }
  }


  grouping changed-by-parms {
    container changed-by {
      description
        "Indicates who caused this change.
        If caused by internal action, then the
        empty leaf 'server' will be present.
        If caused by a management session, then
        the name, remote host address, and session ID
        of the session that made the change will be reported.";
      choice server-or-user {
        mandatory true;
        leaf server {
          type empty;
          description
            "If present, the change was caused 
             by the server.";
        }

        case by-user {
          uses common-session-parms;
        }
      } // choice server-or-user
    } // container changed-by-parms;
  }


  notification netconf-config-change {
    description
      "Generated when the NETCONF server detects that the
       <running> or <startup> configuration datastore has changed.";

    uses changed-by-parms;

    leaf target-datastore {
      type enumeration {
        enum running {
          description "The running datastore has changed.";
        }
        enum startup {
          description "The startup datastore has changed";
        }
      }
      description
        "Indicates which configuration datastore has changed.";
      default "running";
    }

    list edit {
      description
        "An edit record will be present for each distinct
        edit operation on the target datastore.";

      leaf target {
        type instance-identifier;
        description
          "Topmost node associated with the configuration change.
           A server SHOULD set this object to the node within 
           the datastore which is being altered.  A server MAY
           set this object to one of the ancestors of the actual
           node that was changed, or omit this object, if the 
           exact node is not known.";
      }

      leaf operation {
        type nc:edit-operation-type;
        description 
           "Type of edit operation performed.
            A server MUST set this object to the NETCONF edit 
            operation performed on the target datastore.";
      }
    } // list edit
  } // notification netconf-config-change


  notification netconf-capability-change {
    description
      "Generated when a <capability> is added, deleted,
       or modified.";

    uses changed-by-parms;

    leaf-list added-capability {
      type inet:uri;
      description
        "List of capabilities that have just been added.";
    }

    leaf-list deleted-capability {
      type inet:uri;
      description
        "List of capabilities that have just been deleted.";
    }

    leaf-list modified-capability {
      type inet:uri;
      description
        "List of capabilities that have just been modified.
         A capability is considered to be modified if the
         base URI for the capability has not changed, but
         one or more of the parameters encoded at the end of
         the capability URI has changed.  
         The new modified value of the complete URI is returned.";
    }
  } // notification netconf-capability-change


  notification netconf-session-start {
    description
      "Generated when a new NETCONF session is started.";
    uses common-session-parms;
  } // notification netconf-session-start


  notification netconf-session-end {
    description
      "Generated when a NETCONF session is terminated.";

    uses common-session-parms;

    leaf killed-by {
      when "../termination-reason = 'killed'";
      type nc:session-id-type;
      description
        "Session ID that issued the <kill-session>
        if the session was terminated by this operation.";
    }

    leaf termination-reason {
      type enumeration {
        enum "closed" {
          value 0;
          description
            "The session was terminated with 
            the NETCONF <close-session> operation.";
        }
        enum "killed" {
          value 1;
          description
            "The session was terminated with 
            the NETCONF <kill-session> operation.";
        }
        enum "dropped" {
          value 2;
          description
            "The session was terminated because
            the transport layer connection was
            unexpectedly closed.";
        }
        enum "timeout" {
          value 3;
          description
            "The session was terminated because
            of inactivity, either waiting for
            the <hello> or <rpc> messages.";
        }
        enum "bad-hello" {
          value 4;
          description
            "The client's <hello> message was invalid.";
        }
        enum "other" {
          value 5;
          description
            "The session was terminated for
            some other reason.";
        }
      }
      mandatory "true";
      description "Reason the session was terminated.";
    }
  } // notification netconf-session-end


  notification netconf-confirmed-commit {
    description
      "Generated when a confirmed-commit event occurs.";
    reference 
      "I-D draft-ietf-netconf-4741bis section 8.4";

    uses common-session-parms {
      when "../confirm-event != 'timeout'";
    }

    leaf confirm-event {
      description
        "Indicates the event that caused the notification.";
      type enumeration {
        enum "start" {
          value 0;
          description
            "The confirm-commit procedure has started.";
        }
        enum "cancel" {
          value 1;
          description
            "The confirm-commit procedure has been canceled,
            due to the session being terminated, or an
            explicit <cancel-commit> operation.";
        }
        enum "timeout" {
          value 2;
          description
            "The confirm-commit procedure has been canceled,
            due to the confirm-timeout interval expiring.
            The common session parameters will not be present
            in this sub-mode.";
        }
        enum "extend" {
          value 3;
          description
            "The confirm-commit timeout has been extended.";
        }
        enum "complete" {
          value 4;
          description
            "The confirm-commit procedure has been completed.";
        }
      }
      mandatory "true";
    }

    leaf timeout {
      when 
       "../confirm-event = 'start' or ../confirm-event = 'extend'";
      description
       "The configured timeout value if the event type
        is 'start' or 'extend'.  This value represents the
        the approximate number of seconds from the event
        time when the 'timeout' event might occur.";
      units "seconds";
      type uint32;
    }     
  } // notification netconf-confirmed-commit

}

<CODE ENDS>
                  



3. IANA Considerations

This document registers one XML namespace URN in the 'IETF XML registry', following the format defined in [RFC3688].



Registrant Contact: The NETCONF WG of the IETF.

XML: N/A, the requested URI is an XML namespace.

This document registers one module name in the 'YANG Module Names' registry, defined in [RFC6020] .

4. Security Considerations

This document defines a YANG module for reporting of particular system events. Although unlikely, it is possible that data obtained from this module could be used in an attack of some kind, although no specific information in this module is considered sensitive.

TBD: follow Security Consideration guidelines from new template text.

5. References

[RFC2119] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997.
[RFC3688] Mealling, M., "The IETF XML Registry", BCP 81, RFC 3688, January 2004.
[RFC5277] Chisholm, S. and H. Trevino, "NETCONF Event Notifications", RFC 5277, July 2008.
[RFC6020] Bjorklund, M., "YANG - A Data Modeling Language for the Network Configuration Protocol (NETCONF)", RFC 6020, October 2010.
[RFC6021] Schoenwaelder, J., "Common YANG Data Types", RFC 6021, October 2010.
[I-D.ietf-netconf-4741bis] Enns, R, Bjorklund, M, Schoenwaelder, J and A Bierman, "Network Configuration Protocol (NETCONF)", Internet-Draft draft-ietf-netconf-4741bis-10, March 2011.

Appendix A. Change Log

-- RFC Ed.: remove this section before publication.

Appendix A.1. 02-03

Renamed module back to NETCONF system notifications. The module is now ietf-netconf-system-notifications. The namespace and prefix are now changed as well.

Leaf user-name is now username, and is now mandatory, to be consistent with netconf monitoring module.

Leaf remote-host is now source-host to be consistent with netconf monitoring module.

The changed-by choice (server-or-user) is now mandatory.

The netconf-config-change description was updated and leaf target-database is now named target-datastore.

Term 'database' changed to term 'datastore' in text.

netconf-confirmed-commit: changed uses common-session-parms to use when-stmt not refine-stmt.

netconf-capability-change: updated description text.

Appendix A.2. 01-02

Renamed module NETCONF Events instead of NETCONF system notifications. Note that ietf-netconf-notifications is being reserved for the XML content defined in RFC 5277.

Made changes based on mailing list comments and latest WG consensus.

Filled in IANA section.

Appendix A.3. 00-01

Removed sys-startup notification.

Make changed-by into a grouping, and added usage to sys-config-change notification.

Added target-database leaf to sys-config-change to distinguish between running and startup changes.

Removed 'bad-start' from termination-reason leaf in sys-session-end notification.

Appendix A.4. 00

Initial version, based on draft-bierman-netconf-system-monitoring-00.txt.

Author's Address

Andy Bierman Brocade EMail: andy.bierman@brocade.com