NETMOD Working Group M. Wang
Internet-Draft Q. Wu
Intended status: Standards Track Huawei
Expires: September 2, 2019 C. Xie
China Telecom
March 1, 2019

A YANG Data model for Policy based Event Management
draft-wwx-netmod-event-yang-01

Abstract

[RFC8328] defines a policy-based management framework that allow definition of a data model to be used to represent high-level, possibly network-wide policies. This document defines an YANG data model for the policy based event management [RFC7950]. The policy based Event YANG provides the ability for the network management function (within a controller, an orchestrator, or a network element) to control the configuration and monitor state change on the network element and take simple and instant action when a trigger condition on the system state is met.

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Table of Contents

1. Introduction

[RFC8328] defines a policy-based management framework that allow definition of a data model to be used to represent high-level, possibly network-wide policies. This document defines an policy based Event Management YANG data model [RFC7950]. The policy based Event management YANG provides the ability for the network management function (within a controller, an orchestrator, or a network element) to monitor state changes on the network element and take simple and instant action when a trigger condition on the system state is met.

The data model in this document is designed to be compliant with the Network Management Datastore Architecture (NMDA) [RFC8342].

2. Conventions used in this document

2.1. 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]. In this document, these words will appear with that interpretation only when in ALL CAPS. Lower case uses of these words are not to be interpreted as carrying [RFC2119] significance.

This document uses the following terms:

Error
A deviation of a system from normal operation [RFC3877].
Fault
Lasting error or warning condition [RFC3877].
Event
Something that happens which may be of interest or trigger the invocation of the rule. A fault, an alarm, a change in network state, network security threat, hardware malfunction, buffer untilization crossing a threshold, network connection setup, an external input to the system, for example [RFC3877].

2.2. Tree Diagrams

Tree diagrams used in this document follow the notation defined in [RFC8340].

3. Objectives

This section describes some of the design objectives for the policy based Event management Data Model:

4. Relationship to YANG Push

YANG-push mechanism provides a subscription service for updates from a datastore. And it supports two types of subscriptions which are distinguished by how updates are triggered: periodic and on-change.

The On-change Push allow receivers to receive updates whenever changes to target managed objects occur. This document specifies a mechanism that provides three trigger conditions:

And the YANG Push mechanism more focus on the remote mirroring and monitoring of configuration and operational state. For example, for on change method, the subscriber will receive a notification if the changes occurs. The model defined in this document provides a method which allow automatic adjusting the value of the corresponding managed object when some event is triggered. It establishes connection between network service monitoring and network service provision and can use output generated by network service monitoring as input of network service provision and thereby provide automated network management. The details of the usage example is described in Appendix A.

5. Relationship to EVENT MIB

If the device implements the EVENT-MIB [RFC2981], each entry in the "/events/event/trigger" list is mapped to MteTriggerEntry,MteTriggerExistenceEntry,MteTriggerBooleanEntry,MteTriggerThresholdEntry,MteObjectsEntry,MteEventEntry,MteEventSetEntry. respectively.

The following table lists the YANG data nodes with corresponding objects in the EVENT-MIB [RFC2981].

  
 +------------------------------|---------------------------------+
 |                              |                                 |
 | YANG data node in            |  EVENT-MIB Objects              |
 | ietf-event.yang              |  (RFC2981)                      |
 |                              |                                 |
 +----------------------------------------------------------------+
 |                              |                                 |
 | min-data-object              | mteResourceSampleMinimum        |
 |                              |                                 |
 | max-data-object              | mteResourceSampleInstanceMaximum|
 |                              |                                 |
 | traget                       | mteObjectsName                  |
 |                              |                                 |
 | event-name                   | mteEventName                    |
 |                              |                                 |
 | event-description            | mteEventComment                 |
 |                              |                                 |
 | value                        | mteEventSetValue                |
 |                              |                                 |
 | events/event/trigger/name    | mteTriggerName                  |
 |                              |                                 |
 | trigger-description          | mteTriggerComment               |
 |                              |                                 |
 | frequency                    | mteTriggerFrequency             |
 |                              |                                 |
 | comparison                   | mteTriggerBooleanComparison     |
 |                              |                                 |
 | value                        | mteTriggerBooleanValue          |
 |                              |                                 |
 | rising-event                 | mteTriggerThresholdRising       |
 |                              |                                 |
 | falling-event                | mteTriggerThresholdFalling      |
 |                              |                                 |
 | delta-rising-event           | mteTriggerThresholdDeltaRising  |
 |                              |                                 |
 | threshold/startup            | mteTriggerThresholdStartup      |
 |                              |                                 |
 | existence/enable             | mteTriggerExistenceStartup      |
 |                              |                                 |
 | boolean/enable               | mteTriggerBooleanStartup        |
 |                              |                                 |
 -------------------------------|---------------------------------|

6. Model Overview

The YANG data model for the Event management has been split into two modules:

  groupings:
  trigger-grouping
      +---- (test)?
         +--:(existences)
         |  +---- existences
         |     +---- target*       target
         +--:(boolean)
         |  +---- boolean
         |     +---- comparison?   enumeration
         |     +---- value?        match-value
         |     +---- target*       target
         +--:(threshold)
            +---- threshold
               +---- rising-value?           match-value
               +---- rising-target*          target
               +---- falling-value?          match-value
               +---- falling-target*         target
               +---- delta-rising-value?     match-value
               +---- delta-rising-target*    target
               +---- delta-falling-value?    match-value
               +---- delta-falling-target*   target
               +---- startup?                enumeration


module: ietf-event
    +--rw events
       +--rw min-data-object?            uint32
       +--rw max-data-object?   uint32
       +--rw event* [event-name type]
          +--rw event-name           string
          +--rw type                 identityref
          +--rw event-description?   string
          +--rw target*              trig:target
          +--rw clear?               boolean
          +--rw related-event* [event-name type]
          |  +--rw event-name    string
          |  +--rw type          identityref
          +--rw trigger* [name]
          |  +--rw name                   string
          |  +--rw type?                  enumeration
          |  +--rw trigger-description?   string
          |  +--rw frequency
          |  |  +--rw type?         identityref
          |  |  +--rw periodic
          |  |  |  +--rw interval    uint32
          |  |  |  +--rw start?      yang:date-and-time
          |  |  |  +--rw end?        yang:date-and-time
          |  |  +--rw scheduling
          |  |     +--rw month*          string
          |  |     +--rw day-of-month*   uint8
          |  |     +--rw day-of-week*    uint8
          |  |     +--rw hour*           uint8
          |  |     +--rw minute*         uint8
          |  |     +--rw second*         uint8
          |  |     +--rw start?          yang:date-and-time
          |  |     +--rw end?            yang:date-and-time
          |  +--rw (test)?
          |     +--:(existences)
          |     |  +--rw existences
          |     |     +--rw target*   -> /events/event/target
          |     +--:(boolean)
          |     |  +--rw boolean
          |     |     +--rw comparison?   enumeration
          |     |     +--rw value?        match-value
          |     |     +--rw target*       target
          |     +--:(threshold)
          |        +--rw threshold
          |           +--rw rising-value?           match-value
          |           +--rw rising-target*          target
          |           +--rw falling-value?          match-value
          |           +--rw falling-target*         target
          |           +--rw delta-rising-value?     match-value
          |           +--rw delta-rising-target*    target
          |           +--rw delta-falling-value?    match-value
          |           +--rw delta-falling-target*   target
          |           +--rw startup?                enumeration
          +--rw action* [action-name]
             +--rw action-name           string
             +---n event-notification
             |  +---- event-name?   -> /events/event/event-name
             |  +---- type?         -> /events/event/type
             |  +---- target*       trig:target
             +---x set
             |  +---w input
             |     +---w target*   trig:target
             |     +---w value?    <anydata>
             +--rw trigger-event*        -> ../../event-name

The following tree diagrams [RFC8340] provide an overview of the data model for "ietf-event-trigger" module and the "ietf-event" module.

+-------------------------------+
| Event                         |
|  +-------+                    |
|  |Target |                    |
|  +---|---+                    |   +-------------------------------+
|      |                        |   | Event                         |
| +----V---+        +--------+  |   |  +-------+                    |
| |Trigger |------->| Action |-------->|Target |                    |
| +--------+        +--------+  |   |  +---|---+                    |
+-------------------------------+   |      |                        |
                                    | +----|---+        +--------+  |
                                    | |Trigger |------- | Action |  |
                                    | +--------+        +--------+  |
                                    +-------------------------------+

The relation between Event, Trigger, Target and Action is described as follows:

One event may trigger another event,i.e., the action output in the first event can be input to target in the second event, but if it does not trigger another event, the relation between action and target should be ignored.

7. EVENT TRIGGER YANG Module

<CODE BEGINS> file "ietf-event-trigger@2018-12-18.yang"
module ietf-event-trigger {
  yang-version 1.1;
  namespace "urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:yang:ietf-event-trigger";
  prefix trig;

  import ietf-yang-types {
    prefix yang;
  }

  organization
    "IETF xxx Working Group";
  contact
    "Zitao Wang: wangzitao@huawei.com
     Qin Wu: bill.wu@huawei.com";
  description
    "This module defines a reusable grouping for event trigger.";

  revision 2018-12-18 {
    description
      "Initial revision.";
    reference "foo";
  }

  typedef match-value {
    type union {
      type yang:xpath1.0;
      type yang:object-identifier;
      type string;
    }
    description
      "This type is used to match resources of type 'target'.
       Since the type 'target' is a union of different types,
       the 'match-value' type is also a union of corresponding
       types.";
  }

  typedef target {
    type union {
      type instance-identifier;
      type yang:object-identifier;
      type yang:uuid;
      type string;
    }
    description
      "If the target is modelled in YANG, this type will
       be an instance-identifier.
       If the target is an SNMP object, the type will be an
       object-identifier.
       If the target is anything else, for example a distinguished
       name or a CIM path, this type will be a string.
       If the target is identified by a UUID use the uuid
       type. 
       If the server supports several models, the presedence should
       be in the order as given in the union definition.";
  }

  grouping trigger-grouping {
    description
      "A grouping that provides event trigger.";
    choice test {
      description
        "Choice test";
      container existences {
        leaf-list target {
          type target;
          description
            "List for target objects";
        }
        description
          "Container for existence";
      }
      container boolean {
         leaf comparison {
          type enumeration {
            enum "unequal" {
              description
                "Indicates that the comparision type is unequal to.";
            }
            enum "equal" {
              description
                "Indicates that the comparision type is equal to.";
            }
            enum "less" {
              description
                "Indicates that the comparision type is less than.";
            }
            enum "less-or-equal" {
              description
                "Indicates that the comparision type is less than 
                or equal to.";
            }
            enum "greater" {
              description
                "Indicates that the comparision type is greater than.";
            }
            enum "greater-or-equal" {
              description
                "Indicates that the comparision type is greater than
                 or equal to.";
            }
          }
          description
            "Comparison type.";
        }
        leaf value {
          type match-value;
          description
            "Compartion value which is static threshold value.";
        }
        leaf target {
          type target;
          description
            "List for target management objects.";
        }
        description
          "Container for boolean test.";
      }
      container threshold {
        leaf rising-value {
          type match-value;
          description
            "Sets the rising threshold to the specified value, 
             when the current sampled value is greater than or equal to
             this threshold, and the value at the last sampling interval
             was less than this threshold, the event is triggered. ";
        }
        leaf-list rising-target {
          type target;
          description
            "List for target objects.";
        }
        leaf falling-value {
          type match-value;
          description
            "Sets the falling threshold to the specified value.";
        }
        leaf-list falling-target {
          type target;
          description
            "List for target objects.";
        }
        leaf delta-rising-value {
          type match-value;
          description
            "Sets the delta rising threshold to the specified value.";
        }
        leaf-list delta-rising-target {
          type target;
          description
            "List for target objects.";
        }
        leaf delta-falling-value {
          type match-value;
          description
            "Sets the delta falling threshold to the specified value.";
        }
        leaf-list delta-falling-target {
          type target;
          description
            "List for target objects.";
        }
        leaf startup {
          type enumeration {
            enum "rising" {
              description
                "If the first sample after this
                 managed object becomes active is greater than or equal 
                  to 'rising-value' and the 'startup' is equal to 
                  'rising' then one threshold rising event is 
                 triggered for that managed object.";
            }
            enum "falling" {
              description
                "If the first sample after this managed object becomes 
               active is less than or equal to 'falling-value' and 
               the 'startup' is equal to 'falling' then one
               threshold falling event is triggered for that managed
               object.";
            }
            enum "rising-or-falling" {
              description
                "That event may be triggered when the
                 'startup' is equal to 'rising-or-falling'.
                 'rising-or-falling' indicate the state value of the 
                  managed object may less than or greater than the 
                 specified thrshold value.";
            }
          }
          description
            "Startup setting.";
        }
        description
          "Container for the threshold trigger condition. 
           Note that the threshold here  may change over time 
           or the state value changes in either ascend order 
           or descend order.";
      }
    }
  }
}

<CODE ENDS>

8. EVENT YANG Module

<CODE BEGINS> file "ietf-event@2018-09-18.yang"

module ietf-event {
  yang-version 1.1;
  namespace "urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:yang:ietf-event";
  prefix evt;

  import ietf-yang-types {
    prefix yang;
  }
  
  import ietf-event-trigger {
    prefix trig;
  }
  
  organization
    "IETF xxx Working Group";
  contact
    "Zitao Wang: wangzitao@huawei.com
     Qin Wu: bill.wu@huawei.com";
  description
    "This module defines a model for the service topology.";

  revision 2018-12-18 {
    description
      "Initial revision.";
    reference "foo";
  }

  identity event-type {
    description
      "Base identity for event type";
  }

  identity frequency {
    description
      "Base identity for frequency";
  }

  identity periodic {
    base frequency;
    description
      "Identity for periodic trigger";
  }

  identity scheduling {
    base frequency;
    description
      "Identity for scheduling trigger";
  }

  typedef match-value {
    type union {
      type yang:xpath1.0;
      type yang:object-identifier;
      type string;
    }
    description
      "This type is used to match resources of type 'target'.
       Since the type 'target' is a union of different types,
       the 'match-value' type is also a union of corresponding
       types.";
  }

  typedef target {
    type union {
      type instance-identifier;
      type yang:object-identifier;
      type yang:uuid;
      type string;
    }
    description
      "If the target is modelled in YANG, this type will
       be an instance-identifier.
       If the target is an SNMP object, the type will be an
       object-identifier.
       If the target is anything else, for example a distinguished
       name or a CIM path, this type will be a string.
       If the target is identified by a UUID use the uuid
       type. 
       If the server supports several models, the presedence should
       be in the order as given in the union definition.";
  }

  grouping start-end-grouping {
    description
      "A grouping that provides start and end times for
       Event objects.";
    leaf start {
      type yang:date-and-time;
      description
        "The date and time when the Event object
         starts to create triggers.";
    }
    leaf end {
      type yang:date-and-time;
      description
        "The date and time when the Event object
         stops to create triggers.
         It is generally a good idea to always configure
         an end time and to refresh the end time as needed
         to ensure that agents that lose connectivity to
         their Controller do not continue executing Schedules
         forever.";
    }
  }

  container events {
    leaf min-data-object {
      type uint32;
      description
        "Sets the minimum number for a set of data collected 
         or selected during the service monitoring.";
    }
    leaf max-data-object {
      type uint32;
      description
        "Sets the maximum number for a set of data collected or selected
        during the service monitoring.";
    }
    list event {
      key "event-name type";
      leaf event-name {
        type string;
        description
          "Event name";
      }
      leaf type {
        type identityref {
          base event-type;
        }
        description
          "Type of event";
      }
      leaf event-description {
        type string;
        description
          "Event description";
      }
      leaf-list target {
        type target;
        description
          "targeted objects";
      }
      leaf clear {
        type boolean;
        default "false";
        description
          "A flag indicate whether the event be closed";
      }
      list related-event {
        key "event-name type";
        leaf event-name {
          type string;
          description
            "Event name";
        }
        leaf type {
          type identityref {
            base event-type;
          }
          description
            "Type of event";
        }
        description
          "List for related events";
      }
      
    uses trig:trigger-grouping;
  
      list action {
        key "action-name";
        leaf action-name {
          type string;
          description
            "Action name";
        }
        notification event-notification {
          leaf event-name {
            type leafref {
              path "/events/event/event-name";
            }
            description
              "Report the event name";
          }
          leaf type {
            type leafref {
              path "/events/event/type";
            }
            description
              "Report the event type";
          }
          leaf-list target {
            type target;
            description
              "Report the target objects";
          }
          description
            "This notification is used to report that an operator
             acted upon an Event.";
        }
        action set {
          input {
            leaf-list target {
              type target;
              description
                "Report the target objects";
            }
            anydata value {
              description
                "Inline set content.";
            }
          }
        }
        leaf-list trigger-event {
          type leafref {
            path "../../event-name";
          }
          description
            "This action trigger another event";
        }
        description
          "List for Actions";
      }
      description
        "List for Events";
    }
    description
      "YANG data module for defining event triggers and 
       actions for network management purposes";
  }
}

<CODE ENDS>

9. Security Considerations

The YANG modules defined in this document MAY be accessed via the RESTCONF protocol [RFC8040] or NETCONF protocol ([RFC6241]). The lowest RESTCONF or NETCONF layer requires that the transport-layer protocol provides both data integrity and confidentiality, see Section 2 in [RFC8040] and [RFC6241]. The lowest NETCONF layer is the secure transport layer, and the mandatory-to-implement secure transport is Secure Shell (SSH)[RFC6242] . The lowest RESTCONF layer is HTTPS, and the mandatory-to-implement secure transport is TLS [RFC5246].

The NETCONF access control model [RFC6536] provides the means to restrict access for particular NETCONF or RESTCONF users to a preconfigured subset of all available NETCONF or RESTCONF protocol operations and content.

There are a number of data nodes defined in this YANG module that are writable/creatable/deletable (i.e., config true, which is the default). These data nodes may be considered sensitive or vulnerable in some network environments. Write operations (e.g., edit-config) to these data nodes without proper protection can have a negative effect on network operations. These are the subtrees and data nodes and their sensitivity/vulnerability:

10. IANA Considerations

This document registers a URI in the IETF XML registry [RFC3688]. Following the format in [RFC3688], the following registration is requested to be made:

---------------------------------------------------------------------
   URI: urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:yang:ietf-event
   Registrant Contact: The IESG.
   XML: N/A, the requested URI is an XML namespace.
---------------------------------------------------------------------

This document registers a YANG module in the YANG Module Names registry [RFC6020].

---------------------------------------------------------------------
   Name:         ietf-event
   Namespace:    urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:yang:ietf-event
   Prefix:       evt
   Reference:    RFC xxxx
---------------------------------------------------------------------

11. Normative References

[RFC2119] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels", March 1997.
[RFC2981] Kavasseri, R., "Event MIB", RFC 2981, DOI 10.17487/RFC2981, October 2000.
[RFC3688] Mealling, M., "The IETF XML Registry", BCP 81, RFC 3688, DOI 10.17487/RFC3688, January 2004.
[RFC6020] Bjorklund, M., "YANG - A Data Modeling Language for the Network Configuration Protocol (NETCONF)", RFC 6020, DOI 10.17487/RFC6020, October 2010.
[RFC6241] Enns, R., Bjorklund, M., Schoenwaelder, J. and A. Bierman, "Network Configuration Protocol (NETCONF)", RFC 6241, DOI 10.17487/RFC6241, June 2011.
[RFC6242] Wasserman, M., "Using the NETCONF Protocol over Secure Shell (SSH)", RFC 6242, DOI 10.17487/RFC6242, June 2011.
[RFC6370] Bocci, M., Swallow, G. and E. Gray, "MPLS Transport Profile (MPLS-TP) Identifiers", RFC 6370, DOI 10.17487/RFC6370, September 2011.
[RFC6536] Bierman, A. and M. Bjorklund, "Network Configuration Protocol (NETCONF) Access Control Model", RFC 6536, DOI 10.17487/RFC6536, March 2012.
[RFC7950] Bjorklund, M., "The YANG 1.1 Data Modeling Language", RFC 7950, DOI 10.17487/RFC7950, August 2016.
[RFC7952] Lhotka, L., "Defining and Using Metadata with YANG", RFC 7952, DOI 10.17487/RFC7952, August 2016.
[RFC8328] Liu, W., Xie, C., Strassner, J., Karagiannis, G., Klyus, M., Bi, J., Cheng, Y. and D. Zhang, "Policy-Based Management Framework for the Simplified Use of Policy Abstractions (SUPA)", RFC 8328, DOI 10.17487/RFC8328, March 2018.

Appendix A. Example of Event

For example, some service requires to monitoring the "in-errors" state of the interface, and if the value of "in-errors" exceeds the threshold, the event should reset the interface's enabled value to false:

<events>
 <event>
  <event-name>interface-state-exception</event-name>
  <type>interface-exception</type>
  <target>/if:interfaces/if:interface[if:name='eth1']</target>
  <target>/if:interfaces/if:interface[if:name='eth2']</target>
  <target>/if:interfaces/if:interface[if:name='eth3']</target>
  <trigger>
   <name>evaluate-in-errors</name>
   <trigger-description>evaluate the number of 
    the packets that contained errors
    </trigger-description>
   <frequency>10m</frequency>
   <type>threshold</type>
   <test>
    <threshold>
     <startup>rising</startup>
     <rising-value>100</rising-value>
     <rising-target>/if:interfaces/if:interface[if:name='eth1']
       /if:statistic/if:in-errors</rising-target>
     <rising-target>/if:interfaces/if:interface[if:name='eth2']
       /if:statistic/if:in-errors</trising-arget>
    </threshold>
   </test>
  </trigger>
  <action>
   <name>interface-exception</name>
   <event-notification>
    <event-name>interface-state-exception</event-name>
    <type>interface-exception</type>
    <target>/if:interfaces/if:interface[if:name='eth1']</target>
   </event-notification>
   <set>
    <target>/if:interfaces/if:interface[if:name='eth1']</target>
    <interger-value>
     <interfaces>
      <interface>
       <name>eth1</name>
       <enable>false</enable>
      </interface>
     </interfaces>
    </interger-value>
   </set>
  <action>
 </event>
</events>

Appendix B. Changes between revisions

v00 - v01

Authors' Addresses

Michael Wang Huawei Technologies,Co.,Ltd 101 Software Avenue, Yuhua District Nanjing, 210012 China EMail: wangzitao@huawei.com
Qin Wu Huawei 101 Software Avenue, Yuhua District Nanjing, Jiangsu 210012 China EMail: bill.wu@huawei.com
Chongfeng Xie China Telecom EMail: xiechf@ctbri.com.cn