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diff --git a/docs/design/port-status-update.rst b/docs/design/port-status-update.rst new file mode 100644 index 00000000..bbbe085d --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/design/port-status-update.rst @@ -0,0 +1,30 @@ +.. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. +.. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 + +========================== +Neutron Port Status Update +========================== + +.. NOTE:: + This document represents a Neutron RFE to be reviewed in the Doctor project first before submitting upstream to + Launchpad Neutron space. The document is not intended to follow a blueprint format or to be an extensive document. + For more information, please visit http://docs.openstack.org/developer/neutron/policies/blueprints.html + +Neutron port status field represents the current status of a port in the cloud infrastructure. The field can take one of +the following values: 'ACTIVE', 'DOWN', 'BUILD' and 'ERROR'. + +At present, if a network event occurs in the data-plane (e.g. virtual or physical switch fails or one of its ports, +cable gets pulled unintentionally, infrastructure topology changes, etc.), connectivity to logical ports may be affected +and tenants' services interrupted. When tenants/cloud administrators are looking up their resources' status (e.g. Nova +instances and services running in them, network ports, etc.), they will wrongly see everything looks fine. The problem +is that Neutron will continue reporting port 'status' as 'ACTIVE'. + +Many SDN Controllers managing network elements have the ability to detect and report network events to upper layers. +This allows SDN Controllers' users to be notified of changes and react accordingly. Such information could be consumed +by Neutron so that Neutron could update the 'status' field of those logical ports, and additionally generate a +notification message to the message bus. + +However, Neutron misses a way to be able to receive such information through e.g. ML2 driver or the REST API ('status' +field is read-only). There are pros and cons on both of these approaches as well as other possible approaches. This RFE +intends to trigger a discussion on how Neutron could be improved to receive fault/change events from SDN Controllers or +even also from 3rd parties not in charge of controlling the network (e.g. monitoring systems, human admins). |