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EXOS Native Application SDK
Introduction and User’s Guide
Extreme Networks
Version 0.3 03/10/2011
Extreme Networks Confidential
c 2010,2011 Extreme Networks, Inc.
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2 Creating an EXOS Application
2.1 Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
2.2 Application Development Process . .
2.3 EXOS Architecture . . . . . . . . . .
2.4 Directory Structure . . . . . . . . . .
2.5 CLI Definition File . . . . . . . . . .
2.6 Configuration Object Definition File
2.7 Module Specification File . . . . . . .
2.8 Process Definition File . . . . . . . .
2.9 Application Source Code . . . . . . .
2.10 Makefile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
2.11 Application Version File . . . . . . .
2.12 Building and Installation . . . . . . .
2.13 OK, I’ve Installed It... Now What? .
2.14 Looking Forward . . . . . . . . . . .
3 Adding Some Functionality
3.1 Overview . . . . . . . . . .
3.2 A Minimal SMTP Client .
3.3 Dispatcher Timers . . . .
3.4 Putting it All Together . .
3.5 The EMS Trace Facility .
3.6 Non-Blocking Sockets . . .
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1 Getting Started
1.1 Introduction . . . . . . .
1.2 Package Contents . . . .
1.3 System Requirements . .
1.4 Supported Platforms . .
1.5 Installation . . . . . . .
1.6 SDK Directory Structure
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Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . .
EXOS CLI Architecture . . . .
Defining Configuration Objects
Get/Set Method Support . . . .
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6.3 Using VLAN Manager APIs . . . . .
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5.1 Overview . . . . . . . . . . . .
5.2 EXOS EMS Architecture . . .
5.3 Event Definition File Naming
5.4 Event Definition File Content
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7.3 Using FDB Manager APIs . . . . .
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Introduction
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This document provides an introduction to the development of software applications for Extreme
Networks switching products through the use of the ExtremeWare XOS Software Development Kit
(EXOS SDK).
The EXOS SDK enables the development of a variety of native network-centric applications,
including:
• Layer 2 protocols.
• Routing protocols.
• System and network management protocols.
• Autoconfiguration features.
• Management of connected devices.
• Network monitoring.
• ...
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Package Contents
The EXOS SDK is distributed either electronically or on CD/DVD media in the form of a tarball
which includes:
• Toolchains for MIPS and x86 architectures.
• Header files and libraries necessary for using EXOS APIs.
• Makefiles, scripts, and other infrastructure necessary for building EXOS applications.
• Tools for debugging applications in the EXOS environment.
• Documentation in PDF format.
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System Requirements
The recommended system requirements for development using the ExtremeWare XOS SDK are as
follows:
• Operating System: CentOS 5.4, Ubuntu/Kubuntu 9.10, Ubuntu/Kubuntu 10.4. More
recent versions of these distributions may also work.
• CPU Architecture: x86 64 (64-bit required).
• Free Disk Space: 500 MB.
• RAM: 4 GB.
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This SDK supports the development of applications for the following EXOS-based hardware platforms:
• Summit family switches (including X150, X250, X330, X450, X460, X480, and X650).
• Black Diamond 8K family switches (including BD-8500 and BD-8800 families).
1.5
Installation
Assuming the listed minimum system requirements are satisfied, the process of installing the SDK
is essentially to:
1. Change working directory to the chosen installation directory.
2. Unpack the SDK tarball using e.g. tar -xvf exos sdk v12 5 1.tgz.
3. Set the environment variable SDKBASE to the absolute path to the chosen installation directory.
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SDK Directory Structure
Figure 1.1 illustrates the SDK directory structure beneath the installation directory $SDKBASE. The
contents of the subdirectories contained in the diagram are as follows:
• /exos: EXOS-specific header files, libraries, and build infrastructure.
• /doc: SDK and EXOS documentation.
• /samples: Sample EXOS applications, including the tutorial application from this document.
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Figure 1.1: SDK Directory Structure
1.7
Looking Forward
The remainder of this document contains a tutorial describing the implementation of a small EXOS
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Overview
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This chapter begins a tutorial presentation of the process for creating a working EXOS application.
By the conclusion of this chapter, we will have created, built, and installed a minimal EXOS
application. The application developed in this chapter will be used as a foundation on which
additional features and functionality will be developed in subsequent chapters of this document.
Note: for clarity, code presented in this tutorial generally does not include code for error checking
or handling of run-time error conditions. Please refer to the appropriate API reference documents
for details about potential error conditions that need to be anticipated in production-quality software.
Application Development Process
Figure 2.1 shows a high-level diagram of the process by which an EXOS application is built from
user-provided source files. The types of source files from which an EXOS application is built include:
• Source Code: C source and header files for the application (*.c, *.h).
• CLI Definitions Command-Line Interface syntax definition and implementation (*.cli).
• Configuration Object Definitions Defines structure and content of data objects used by
internal interfaces to CLI, XML, and SNMP agents (*.obj).
• Event Management Definitions XML definitions for all error/event messages produced
by the application (* ems.xml).
• MIB Definitions Standard MIB definition files (*.my) and configuration object mapping
defintions *.smap) for SNMP MIB implementation.
• SOAP XML Schema Schema for external XML interface (*.xsd).
• Makefile Controls the build process for the application module.
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Figure 2.1: Module Creation Process
The remainder of this chapter describes the construction of a minimal EXOS application.
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EXOS Architecture
EXOS is organized as a collection of loosely-coupled independent processes which interact almost
exclusively using the IPML message-based interprocess communication mechanism.
EXOS applications are started by the EXOS Process Manager (EPM), which is also responsible for monitoring the health of each application (CPU utilization, memory utilization, liveness
checking) and for controlling process termination and restarting.
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2.4. DIRECTORY STRUCTURE
Internally, EXOS applications use an event-driven architecture with the main event-handling
loop implemented in the dispatchHandler() function that is part of the dispatcher library. The
following types of events are supported:
• IPML connection establishment.
• IPML connection termination.
• IPML message reception.
• Timer expiration.
• Arbitrary file descriptor has error status.
• Local event injection (immediate work item).
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All user-provided event handlers are registered as callback functions. It is important for event
handling functions to perform their processing and return control to the main dispatcher loop
quickly, so blocking system calls and long-running computations must be avoided. The precise
definition of what ”quickly” means is application-dependent, but generally speaking an event processing callback should take no more than a few hundred milliseconds, less if the application has
more stringent real-time response requirements.
During initialization, the following activities are typically performed by an EXOS application:
1. Initialization routines for client libraries that interface with other processes (e.g. EPM, DM,
CM, EMS, etc.) are called. These generally include code to establish IPML connections to
their respective server processes and register event handlers for these connections.
2. Register application-specific information (e.g. CLI definitions with cliMaster, event message
definitions with emsServer, MIBS with snmpSubagent, etc.)
3. Enter infinite dispatcher event handling loop.
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Directory Structure
A directory structure in needed in which to contain the various application source files for an application. In this tutorial, we will assume that the root working directory is located at $HOME/sample/
with header files residing in ”$HOME/sample/inc” and source files in ”$HOME/sample/src”. This
directory structure (with parallel src/ and inc/ subdirectories) is required because the build infrastructure assumes the existence of these subdirectories.
Build output is placed in several subdirectories under $HOME/sample/src/, with most intermediate output going into obj/<platform-name>/ and files to be shipped (e.g. application binaries, CLI
definition XML, libraries, etc.) placed under platform-name>/exos. The <platform-name>/release
subdirectory is created by the common build infrastructure and used as a location for staging the
directory structure used for the final installable module.
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CLI Definition File
The first file to be created is a minimal CLI definition file, which will be named sample/src/sample.cli.
The contents of this file are shown in listing 2.1.
Source Code Listings 2.1: Stub CLI Definition File
1 %s t y l e =”extreme”%
2 %e n d s t y l e%
Because we have not yet defined any CLI commands, the CLI definition file is quite short. Later
in this tutorial we will implement a few CLI commands; for now, this file serves as a placeholder.
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contents of sample/src/sample.obj are shown in listing 2.2.
Source Code Listings 2.2: Stub Configuration Object Definition File
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/∗ C o n f i g u r a t i o n o b j e c t d e f i n i t i o n s ∗/
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Module Specification File
EXOS extensions that are distributed separately from the base installation image are distributed
as ”EXOS module” or ”XMOD” files. A module specification file must be created for each XMOD
to control the contents and installation requirements specific to the module.
The ”Module Specification File”, or ”spec” file, contains information used to install or uninstall
an XMOD package under EXOS. The contents of this file include:
• The name of the shared library (included in the XMOD) to be used by EPM to perform
installation tasks.
• The list of files included in the package with installation paths.
• Optional scripts to run before and/or after installation.
• Optional scripts to run before and/or after uninstallation.
• Base image revision identifier for compatibility checking.
• MD5 checksums for verification of the installed files.
Note that some of the listed items are added to the final ”spec” file during the build process
(e.g. MD5 checksums and the base release version), while others are controlled by the base spec
file. Listing 2.3 shows the contents of our base ”spec” file, located at sample/spec.sample.
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d e s c r i p t i o n =”Sample a p p l i c a t i o n ” :
f i l e n a m e=e x o s v e r s i o n : p a r t=e x o s :
f i l e n a m e =./ b i n / sample : type=b i n : p a r t=e x o s : p r o c=sample :
f i l e n a m e =./ c o n f i g / c l i d e f / sample . xml : type=t x t : p a r t=e x o s :
p o s t i n s t a l l =/tmp/ upgrade epmrc :
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base EXOS image, however there may be cases where changed or new installation logic is
required, so the possibility of a modified installation library is provided for.
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version file at /exos/exos version of the target installation partition.
• Line 4 specifies that the file ./bin/sample is to be installed to the /exos partition.
• Line 5 specifies that the XML CLI definition file ./config/clidef/sample.xml is to be
installed to the exos partition.
• Line 6 specifies that the post-installation script /tmp/upgrade is to be executed with the
command-line parameter epmrc. The purpose of this is to merge the partial epmrc file included
in this package with the full epmrc file that is resident on the switch. Note that the upgrade
script and epmrc are included in the *.xmod package implicitly.
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Process Definition File
The epmrc file is used by the EXOS process manager (EPM) to control a variety of attributes for
the various processes in the system. Some of these attributes include:
• Under what conditions the process is allowed to be started.
• In what order the process should be started with respect to other processes.
• Whether the process is restartable.
• Policy for handling process failure.
Note that many other process management attributes can be specified through the epmrc file,
these are described in detail in <TBD>. The epmrc data for our sample application is contained
in sample/src/epmrc.sample as shown in Listing 2.4.
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The interpretations of the colon-delimited tokens in this epmrc entry are as follows:
1. proc= identifies the name that should be used to refer to this process (e.g. in CLI commands,
log messages, etc.)0. Note that, while this name is usually identical to the executable’s file
name, this is not a requirement.
2. path= provides the path to the executable for this process relative to the /exos/bin directory.
3. restart=1 declares that this process may be restarted.
4. startseq=1 declares that this process should be started at boot/initialization along with
normal EXOS processes (this parameter should always be set to 1.)
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no other processes are dependent upon this process. Failed leaf processes are normally just
restarted, failed non-leaf processes may require node failover (if a redundant management
node is present and in sync) or node restart.
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is ”Edge”.
Application Source Code
The bulk of our sample application is contained in the C source file sample/src/sample.c, the
contents of which are presented in Listing 2.5, Listing 2.6, and Listing 2.7, as described below.
Listing 2.5 begins by including several necessary header files:
• Line 1 includes "maininc.h", which in turn includes several header files for the most commonly
used EXOS APIs.
• Line 2 includes "cli subagent.h", needed for the registration of application-specific CLI
definitions.
• Line 3 includes "sample objdef.h", which is an automatically generated file derived from
the sample.obj configuration object definition file.
Listing 2.5 continues with the definition of an event handling function for configuration management events. The key elements of this callback function are:
• Lines 13-16: when the configuration manager process informs the application that all stored
configuration information has been loaded, the application’s process state transitions to
”ready”.
• Lines 18-21: in the case where no configuration is loaded (e.g. when the system has been rebooted after the ”unconfigure switch” command has been executed), the application’s process
state transitions to ”ready”.
• Per lines 23-24, all other configuration management events are ignored.
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request our configuration from the configuration manager when directed to do so by DM.
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Listing 2.7 contains the bulk or the sample application implementation:
• Line 49 initializes the application’s process name from the environment variable that was
created when EPM started this process.
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• Line 52 initializes the DM client library and installs the DM event handler discussed in Listing 2.6.
• Line 55 initializes the EPM client library for communication with the EPM process.
• Line 58 initializes the application’s process state to BOOTING.
• Lines 61-65 initialize the dispatcher library with information about our application. Because
our application is single-threaded, most of the parameters passed to dispatchInit() are not
relevant.
• Line 68 transitions our application’s process state to LOADCFG to inform DM that the application is ready to receive its configuration information.
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this application and the CLI master process and registration of the CLI messaging event
handler with the dispatcher. When the IPML connection to the CLI master application is
established, the application’s CLI information will be registered with the CLI master process.
• Line 77 initializes the configuration management client library, including initiation of the
IPML connection to the configuration manager process and registration of the configuration
management (CM) event handler.
• Line 80 calls dispatchHandler(), which starts the main event-handling loop for our application.
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/∗ I n i t i t i a l i z e p r o c e s s name from environment c r e a t e d by EPM ∗/
exosSetProcessName (NULL) ;
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dmInit ( 0 , dmHandler ) ;
/∗ I n i t i a l i z e EPM c l i e n t ∗/
e p mC l i e n tS e t P id ( ) ; /∗ I n i t i a l i z e EPM c l i e n t ∗/
/∗ I n i t i a l i z e p r o c e s s s t a t e ∗/
e x o s S e t P r o c e s s S t a t e (DM PROCESS STATE BOOTING) ;
/∗ I n i t i a l i z e d i s p a t c h e r e v e n t h a n d l e r ∗/
d i s p a t c h I n i t (NULL,
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/∗ Use d e f a u l t k e e p a l i v e i n t e r v a l ∗/
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/∗ S e t p r o c e s s s t a t e t o l o a d c o n f i g u r a t i o n ∗/
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/∗ S t a r t c o n n e c t i o n t o d e v i c e manager ∗/
dmConnect ( ) ;
/∗ I n i t i a l i z e CLI c l i e n t l i b r a r y ∗/
c l i S u b a g e n t I n i t ( exosGetProcessName ( ) , NULL) ;
/∗ Enter i n f i n i t e e v e n t h a n d l i n g l o o p ∗/
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Makefile
The file sample/src/Makefile, shown in Listing 2.8, orchestrates the processing of the component
source files to produce the output file sample.xmod.
At a high level, the interesting components of the Makefile are:
• EXOS TOPLEVEL TARGET: Identifies the platform for which this module is targeted;
in this case ”cougar” is specified to indicate that the module should be built for for the
”Summit” family of switches. Other supported targets include:
– summit rmi - Used when building kernel modules for RMI-based Summit platforms (x460,
x480).
– aspen msm - BD8800 platform.
– i386 - Intel/AMD VM platform.
• TARGET BIN: The name of the executable built from source files listed in BIN SRC.
• TARGET XMOD: The base name of the installable module generated by this Makefile.
• DEFS: Application-specific flags to be used the compiler command-line.
• BIN SRC: A list of C source files used to create the application binary.
• CLIDEF: The name of the CLI definition file for this module.
• OBJDEF: The name of the configuration object definition file for this module.
• LIBS: The list of libraries to be used when linking the application binary.
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• INCS: A list of additional directories to be searched for header files.
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Application Version File
The file sample/src/version, shown in Listing 2.9, is used to generate application versioning
information. The numeric version can be displayed via the EXOS CLI command “show process”
and is available for run-time checks (e.g. for versioning checks between two instances of a process
performing checkpointing) As a side-effect, the presence of a version information file causes build
information for debugging to be included in core files produced by the application.
The version identifier is not interpreted outside the application, however:
• Version components to the left have higher significance than those to the right.
• A version containing all zeroes should not be used.
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Building and Installation
With all source files in place, the procedure for building sample.xmod is simply:
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2. make -C sample/src/
The location of the resulting installable module is sample/src/cougar/release/summitX-12.5.1.0-sampl
This module can now be downloaded via TFTP and installed on any switch which has the
appropriate version of EXOS installed via the download image CLI command. After installation,
the run update command can be executed to start the newly-installed application; the application
will also be started automatically after a reboot.
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• debug ems show trace "sample" info
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• debug ems show trace "sample" dispatcher
2.14
Looking Forward
In the following chapters we will continue to develop our application module, implementing a
rudimentary SMTP client to demonstrate a small socket-based application, then continuing to
enhance the application by adding CLI commands, non-volatile configuration handling, error/event
message capabilities, SNMP MIB support, and more.
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application SDK. In this chapter, we implement a small SMTP send-only mail client to serve as a
focus around which various aspects of application implementation can be discussed.
The goal for this chapter is simply to have the application send an email message one minute
after the application has started execution. Some simplifying assumptions include:
• The SMTP server address and recipient email address can be fixed at compilation time (the
abitility to configure these will be added in a later chapter).
• The SMTP server is reachable via an interface belonging to the VR-Mgmt virtual router.
3.2
A Minimal SMTP Client
Listing 3.1 contains the source code for a rudimentary SMTP client which is contained insample/src/smtpclien
Our goal in this context is not to build a robust, conformant, industrial-strength SMTP client, it
is merely to provide an interesting bit of functionality around which to discuss various aspects of
the implementation of an EXOS application.
Source Code Listings 3.1: Mini SMTP Client Source Code
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#include
#include
#include
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#include
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<s t d i o . h>
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”common/ i n c / e x o s v r . h”
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s t a t i c int s e n d a n d e x p e c t ( int fd , char ∗ snd , char ∗ exp )
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char buf [ 5 1 2 ] ;
int s n d l e n = s t r l e n ( snd ) ;
int e x p l e n = s t r l e n ( exp ) ;
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i f ( r c != s n d l e n )
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e l s e i f ( r c == s i z e o f buf )
return −1; /∗ r e s p o n s e p o s s i b l y t o o l a r g e ∗/
else i f ( rc < explen )
return −1; /∗ r e s p o n s e t o o s m a l l ∗/
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int s m t p p o s t ( char ∗ s r v r , char ∗ c l n t , char ∗ s e n d e r , char ∗ r e c i p , char ∗msg )
{
int s ;
struct s o c k a d d r i n s e r v e r ;
struct h o s t e n t ∗hp ;
char buf [ 5 1 2 ] ;
int r c = −1;
int v r i d = MGMT VR ID ;
s = s o c k e t (AF INET , SOCK STREAM, 0 ) ;
i f ( s < 0)
return −1;
i f ( s e t s o c k o p t ( s , SOL SOCKET, SO VRID , &v r i d , s i z e o f v r i d ) < 0 )
return −1;
s e r v e r . s i n f a m i l y = AF INET ;
r c = −2;
hp = gethostbyname ( s r v r ) ;
i f ( hp == NULL)
goto out ;
memcpy(& s e r v e r . s i n a d d r , hp−>h addr , hp−>h l e n g t h ) ;
s e r v e r . s i n p o r t = htons (25) ;
r c = −3;
i f ( c o n n e c t ( s , ( struct s o c k a d d r ∗ )&s e r v e r , s i z e o f s e r v e r ) < 0 )
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r c = −4;
i f ( s e n d a n d e x p e c t ( s , ” ” , ” 220 ” ) )
goto out ;
s n p r i n t f ( buf , s i z e o f buf , ”HELO %s \ r \n” , c l n t ) ;
i f ( s e n d a n d e x p e c t ( s , buf , ” 250 ” ) )
goto out ;
s n p r i n t f ( buf , s i z e o f buf , ”MAIL From:% s \ r \n” , s e n d e r ) ;
i f ( s e n d a n d e x p e c t ( s , buf , ” 250 ” ) )
goto out ;
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goto out ;
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The external interface to smtpclient.c will go in sample/inc/smtpcli.h, as shown in Listing 3.2.
Source Code Listings 3.2: Mini SMTP Client Header File
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Note that the code in Listing 3.1 is not written in the event-driven paradigm that should be used
in EXOS applications; specifically, the connect(), write(), and read() system calls can block for
extended periods of time. We will tolerate this model for the moment, this ssue will be revisted
later in this chapter when the consequences of this implemenation and ways to address them are
considered.
We now have the means for sending an email message via SMTP, but we still need to be able to
send the the message at some time after our application starts. For this, we will use the dispatcher
timer facility as discussed in the next section of this chapter.
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Dispatcher Timers
As discussed in Section 2.3 or Chapter 2, the core event-handling loop of an EXOS application is
implemented in the dispatcher library. The dispatcher library includes facilities for creating timers,
which have the following properties:
• The minimum granularity of a dispatcher timer is 50 milliseconds.
• The maximum timeout of a dispatcher timer is 232 − 1 seconds (about 136 years).
• A dispatcher timer can repeat periodically (cyclic) or fire only once (one-shot).
• On expiration, a call is made to a user-provided callback function.
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• A pointer to the user-provided callback function of type dispatchWork f.
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• A relative timeout specified as a struct timeval *.
• The type of the timer, either DISPATCH TM TYPE ONESHOT or DISPATCH TM TYPE CYCLIC.
Source Code Listings 3.3: Prototype for dispatchExecuteWorkItem()
typedef void ( d i s p a t c h W o r k f ) ( void ∗ arg1 , void ∗ a r g 2 ) ;
d i s p a t c h W o r k t ∗ dispatchExecuteWorkItem ( d i s p a t c h W o r k f
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Putting it All Together
With an SMTP client and the ability to set a dispatcher timer in hand, it’s time to return our goals
for the application for this chapter.
First we need to modify sample/src/Makefile to add smtpclient.c to BIN SRC as shown in
Listing 3.4.
Source Code Listings 3.4: Makefile Modifications
BIN SRC
= sample . c \
smtpclient . c
Next we make the additions to sample/src/sample.c shown in Listing 3.5:
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1. Include smtpclient.h header file.
2. Define timer callback function sampleSendMailCB.
3. Add call to dispatchExecuteWorkItem() to create timer, just before entering dispatchHandler().
Source Code Listings 3.5: Modifications to sample.c
/∗ −−− s n i p −−− ∗/
#include ” . . / i n c / s m t p c l i e n t . h”
/∗ −−− s n i p −−− ∗/
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smtp post ( ” 1 0 . 5 . 2 . 1 5 8 ” ,
/∗ Modify f o r your environment ∗/
” 10.66.4.10 ” ,
” someone@somecorp . com” ,
” l r i c h a r d s o n @ S y z y g y −HLR” , /∗ Modify f o r your environment ∗/
” H e l l o , world ! \ n” ) ;
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/∗ −−− s n i p −−− ∗/
timeout . t v s e c = 60;
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dispatchExecuteWorkItem ( sampleSendMailCB ,
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&timeout ,
DISPATCH TM TYPE ONESHOT) ;
/∗ −−− s n i p −−− ∗/
At this point we can rebuild the sample XMOD by executing ”make -C sample/src". Assuming
the specified SMTP server is reachable, the recipient is accepted, and the SMTP message is otherwise
well-formed, our ”Hello, world!” email message should be received after installing the updated
XMOD and rebooting.
What if our email message is never received? At this point we might verify connectivity between the switch and the SMTP server (e.g. by "telnet vr vr-mgmt <ip-address> 25" from the
switch), but assuming connectivity is confirmed, how can we get insight into what’s happening in
the application?
3.5
The EMS Trace Facility
The EMS Trace facility provides the ability to create and manage in-memory trace buffers for
developer-level debugging tasks. Messages in these trace buffers are logged with a timestamp and
a global sequence number that is unique across all trace buffers within a single application. The
buffers are fixed in size, with the size being configured when the trace buffer is created, and are
treated as circular buffers.
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The two key APIs for using EMS trace buffers are emsInitTraceBuffer(), which creates a
trace buffer, and emsTraceLogf(), which logs messages into a buffer using printf-style formatting.
The prototypes for these functions are shown in Listing 3.6.
Source Code Listings 3.6: EMS Tracing API
void ∗ e m s I n i t T r a c e B u f f e r ( char ∗name , u i n t 3 2 t s i z e ,
emsTraceFormat f ∗ emsTraceFormatCallBack ) ;
void emsTraceLogf ( void ∗ t r a c e H a n d l e , int type ,
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as shown in the code fragments of Figure 3.7.
Source Code Listings 3.7: Creating an EMS Trace Buffer
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d e b u g h a n d l e = e m s I n i t T r a c e B u f f e r ( ” debug ” , 8 1 9 2 , NULL) ;
Then, we’ll add a few trace messages:
Source Code Listings 3.8: Using an EMS Trace Buffer
/∗ In main ( ) , b e f o r e d i s p a t c h H a n d l e r ( ) ∗?
emsTraceLogf ( d e b u g h a n d l e , 0 , ” C a l l i n g d i s p a t c h H a n d l e r ( ) ”) ;
/∗ In sampleSendMailCB ( ) , b e f o r e c a l l i n g s m t p p o s t ( ) ∗/
emsTraceLogf ( debug handle , 0 , ” Entered sampleSendMailCB ” ) ;
/∗ In sampleSendMailCB ( ) , a f t e r c a l l i n g s m t p p o s t ( ) ∗/
emsTraceLogf ( debug handle , 0 , ” s m t p p o s t ( ) r e t u r n e d %d” , r c ) ;
After changing the SMTP server IP address to an unreachable address, rebuilding, and installing,
we can now execute the command debug ems show trace "sample" debug on the switch and see:
Source Code Listings 3.9: Formatted Output from an EMS Trace Buffer
04/28/2010 1 6 : 3 0 : 3 6 . 6 6 4 3 7 2 [ 1 4 ] <sample : debug> C a l l i n g d i s p a t c h H a n d l e r ( )
04/28/2010 1 6 : 3 1 : 3 6 . 7 0 0 5 5 0 [ 1 7 3 ] <sample : debug> Entered sampleSendMailCB ( )
04/28/2010 1 6 : 3 1 : 4 0 . 0 3 7 3 1 3 [ 1 7 4 ] <sample : debug> s m t p p o s t ( ) r e t u r n e d −3
From which we can glean:
• The dispatcher timer callback was, in fact, called 60 seconds after being created.
• The call to smtp post() failed with return code -3, which according to smtpclient.c means
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Overview
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In this chapter we continue the development of an EXOS application by adding support for configuration via the command-line interface, and for storing the configuration information in the persistent
configuration database.
EXOS CLI Architecture
As shown in the diagram in Figure 4.1, EXOS applications receive configuration requests and
produce responses to configuration requests in the form of XML-formatted messages. For a given
configuration transaction, an EXOS application acts either as a configuration management front-end
or conifguration management back-end. As might be expected, front-ends generate configuration
requests and back-ends service configuration requests. Note that these roles are not mutually
exclusive; a front-end application will generally have some configurable attributes, and therefore
needs to act as a back-end as well.
All configuration requests and responses are routed through the configuration manager process, which is responsible for:
• Routing requests to the appropriate back-end application instance.
• Routing responses to the appropriate front-end application.
• Serializing configuration request execution to ensure that only one configuration operation for
an application is active at any given time.
• For systems with redundant managment nodes, ensuring that each configuration operation is
synchronized between the current master node and any backup nodes.
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Figure 4.1: Configuration Message Flow
The main elements required to implement CLI and configuration management functionality in
an EXOS application include:
1. A configuration object definition file that defines, in C-like data structure syntax, the following
items:
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The data type and name for the member fields supported for each object.
Which configuration actions (get, set, or setop) are implemented for each object.
Whether the object is to be included in persistent configuration storage and if so, the
relative order each object type is to be set at configuration load time.
2. Files generated from the configuration object definition file by the object2c.pl utility, including:
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• * cmobj.h and * objdef.h, header files containing C language structure definitions and
utility macros for working with configuration objects.
• * cmobj.c and * objdef.c, source files containing functions for working with configuration
objects (including transformations between XML and C forms).
• *.dtd, an XML “Document Type Definition” for the configuration objects, methods, and
fields.
3. C functions written by the application developer as required to implement configuration management actions (set, get, or setop) for each object type.
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The subsequent sections of this chapter detail the implementation of support for the following
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• configure sample email <email address>
• show sample configuration
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Defining Configuration Objects
In order to implement persistent storage of configuration information, we must provide definitions
for the configuration objects that will be used to represent this information.
We start by identifying the required configuration elements. For simplicity, we will assume that
only one destination is required and therefore include both the SMTP server address and the email
address of the recipient in a single configuration object. (Note that a “real” implementation would
likely need to separate server configuration from the email address list.)
With this information in hand, we can update the previously created sample/src/sample.obj
file as shown in Listing 4.1
Source Code Listings 4.1: Configuration Object Definition File
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char s m t p s e r v e r [ 6 4 ] ;
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saveorder 1;
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• Line 2 specifies a string field named “smtp server” to contain the host name or IP address of
the SMTP server.
• Line 3 specifies a string field named “recipient” to contain the email address to which our
email messages will be sent.
• Line 5 specifies two things: (1) that this configuration object should be saved with the persistent system configuration, and (2) that this object should be saved and loaded first with
respect to other configuration objects in this module.
• Line 7 declares that the “get” method is supported for this object.
• Line 8 declares that the “set” method is supported for this object.
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two unresolved symbols: sample destination t get() and sample destination t set(). This
is a consequence of having declared in sample.obj that the sample destination object supports
the “get” and “set” methods. It is now up to us to implement them.
Get/Set Method Support
The code implementing the functions for the requisite “get” and“set” methods is contained in a a
new file, which will be located at sample/src/sample cli.c. The contents of this file are shown
in Listing 4.2, Listing 4.3, and Listing 4.4.
Listing 4.2 begins by including several necessary header files. Note that sample objdef.h is one
of the files created automatically from sample.obj. On line 5 we declare a global structure to store
configuration state locally. In this case we are using the structure definition for the configuration
object, although this is not requirement.
Source Code Listings 4.2: Preamble for Get and Set Method Implementation
1 #include ” maininc . h”
2 #include ” c l i s u b a g e n t . h”
3 #include ” . . / i n c / s a m p l e o b j d e f . h”
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Listing 4.3 contains the definition of the “get” method, outlined as follows:
• Line 7 defines the function to return an integer (which will be either CM BACKEND ERROR
or CM BACKEND SUCCESS in this case) and take two parameters: a back-end context
pointer which is used to specify and track the response, and a pointer to a
sample destination t structure which contains any configuration object fields from the request message.
• At line 11 we allocate an object structure which will be sent in XML form to the requester.
• Because the newly allocated object contains no valid fields, at line 15 we mark all fields in the
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• In lines 17-19 we copy our local email recipient string to the object and mark the corresponding
object field as valid.
• In lines 21-23 we copy our local SMTP server string to the object and mark the corresponding
object field as valid.
• At line 25 the response object is attached to the backend context structure to be used in
forming the XML response message. Note that the memory allocated for the object will be
freed by the caller.
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the object will be converted to XML form and sent to the configuration manager, which will
then forward it to the original requester.
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return CM BACKEND ERROR;
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SAMPLE DESTINATION T SET ZERO VALID( o b j ) ;
s t r n c p y ( obj−>r e c i p i e n t , g l o b a l C o n f i g . r e c i p i e n t , s i z e o f obj−>r e c i p i e n t − 1 ) ;
obj−>r e c i p i e n t [ s i z e o f obj−>r e c i p i e n t − 1 ] = ’ \0 ’ ;
SAMPLE DESTINATION T SET VALID( obj , r e c i p i e n t ) ;
s t r n c p y ( obj−>s m t p s e r v e r , g l o b a l C o n f i g . s m t p s e r v e r , s i z e o f obj−>s m t p s e r v e r − 1 )
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obj−>s m t p s e r v e r [ s i z e o f obj−>s m t p s e r v e r − 1 ] = ’ \0 ’ ;
SAMPLE DESTINATION T SET VALID( obj , s m t p s e r v e r ) ;
SAMPLE DESTINATION T SET OUTPUT( ctx , o b j ) ;
return CM BACKEND SUCCESS;
}
Listing 4.4 contains the definition of the “set” method, implemented as follows:
• Line 30 defines the function to return an integer (which will be CM BACKEND SUCCESS
in this case) and take two parameters: a back-end context pointer which is used to control
the contents of the reqponse, and a pointer to a sample destination t structure initialized
from the XML set request.
• Line 32 checks whether the recipient field is valid, which will be true if the field was present
in the XML request. If so, the field is copied to the global configuration structure in lines
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• Line 38 checks whether the smtp server field is valid, which will be true if the field was
present in the XML request. If so, the field is copied to the global configuration structure in
lines 39-41.
• Finally, we return CM BACKEND SUCCESS at line 44 to indicate that the operation completed successfully.
Source Code Listings 4.4: Set Method Implementation
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strncpy ( globalConfig . recipient ,
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strncpy ( globalConfig . smtp server ,
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Listing 4.5 contains the definition for the first CLI command to be implemented, outlined as follows:
• Line 1 declares the CLI style for this set of commands, in this case indicating that the enclosed
commands are in the standard Extreme CLI style. The %style directive is terminated on line
59 of Listing 4.6.
• Line 2 defines the command syntax. In command syntax definitions, square brackets indicate
a set of alternatives that are separated by the vertical bar or “pipe” character, keywords
are verbatim, and identifiers enclosed in < and > are parameters. Therefore, this command
definition matches either of the following two CLI commands:
configure sample smtp-server <smtp server>
configure sample email <email address>
• Lines 3-9 define various attributes for tokens in the command definition, including:
– help: Help text to display for this token, e.g. when the CLI user types TAB or ’ ?’ while
entering a command. Applies to both keywords and parameters.
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– type: For parameters, specifies the type of the parameter. Only “string” is used here,
but various other types are available, including a range of integral types, IP addresses,
and MAC addresses.
– range: For parameters, specifies the range of values (for integral types) or maximum
string length (for the “string” type).
• Line 11 specifies that this command is handled via the XML interface to the configuration
manager, in which case the enclosed statements are to be interpreted as TCL code for handling
the XML request/response and formatting the result for the user.
• Lines 12-31 contain the TCL code for this command action, as follows:
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be indexed by keyword or parameter name.
– Line 14 initializess the local variable“xml” opening XML tag identifying the configuration
object to which the request should be applied.
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and, if present, adds the “<smtp server>00 value to the XML string.
– Lines 19-21 check for the existence of the “email” keyword in the entered command and,
if present, adds the“<email address>” value to the XML string.
– Line 22 adds the closing tag for the configuration object name corresponding to the tag
opened on line 13.
– Line 24 sends the fully-formed XML request for module “sample” to the configuration
manager and waits for the response by invoking the “setone” built-in function, then
assigns the XML result to the “reply” variable.
– Line 25 creates an array from the XML result string for simplified access to elements in
the response.
– Lines 27-29 check for an error result and, if an error occurred during the processing of
the request, the associated message is displayed.
– Line 31 “unsets” all local variables to remove their names from the global namespace
and to free memory allocated for them.
Source Code Listings 4.5: TCL Definition for “configure” Command
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Listing 4.6 contains the definition for the show sample configuration command, outlined as
follows:
• Line 35 declares the command syntax, which in this case consists only of keyword tokens.
• Lines 36-39 specify help text attributes for each command token (excluding the first-level
token show, for which help text is defined elsewhere.)
• Lines 42-57 contain the TCL code for this command’s action:
– Line 44 initializes the XML string to identify the configuration object we will be performing a“get” operation on. Note that the equivalent short-hand notation <sample destination/>
could also be used here.
– Line 46 causes a get request to be sent to the “sample” application by invoking the“getone”
function. The response to the request is assigned to the “reply” variable.
– Line 47 parses the XML response into an array for simplified access.
– Lines 49 ensures that the “get” operation was successful, and if so proceeds to display
the response.
– Lines 50 and 51 assign the SMTP server and email address strings to variables for convenience.
– Lines 53-54 format and display the configuration information for a terminal session.
– Line 57 “unsets” all local variables to remove their names from the global namespace
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The Event Management System (EMS) provides a flexible infrastructure for defining, using,
and publishing event messages on a per-application basis with centralized run-time facilities for
controlling and monitoring the logging of event messages throughout the system.
In this chapter we continue to enhance the tutorial EXOS application by adding support for
event log messaging using the EMS infrastructure.
EXOS EMS Architecture
Placeholder for a brief description of the EMS server application, client library, and
features/capabilities.
5.3
Event Definition File Naming
EMS event definition files reside in the src/ems subdirectory. There may be multiple EMS event
definition files for a given EXOS application, generally a single file for the overall application and
some number of event definition files (possibly zero) for the application’s sub-components. The
naming convention for EMS event definition files for the overall application is:
<application-name> ems.xml
According to these requirements, our EMS event definition file should be located at:
src/ems/sample ems.xml.
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We will create the XML-formatted event definition file using the GUI emsEdit.pl utility. Required
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1. Component Name: This is generally the same as the application binary name, which in
our case will be ”sample”.
2. Default Severity Threshold: This is the minimum message severity to be displayed by
default, which we will set to be Info.
3. Component Description: This is a short description of the application.
With this information in hand, and after creating the subdirectory sample/src/ems, we start
the GUI event definition tool by invoking:
$SDKBASE/tools/xml2ems/emsEdit.pl sample/src/ems/sample ems.xml
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Data entry for the global component information is as follows:
1. Clear the contents of the text box to the right of Component Info and enter sample.
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description), and enter A sample EXOS application as the component description.
We are now ready to define an EMS event, the purpose of which is to log a successful attempt
to send an email message by our application. We need the following bits of information:
• Condition Mnemonic: A short name for the event, up to 15 characters in length. We’ll use
EMailSent.
• Condition Severity: Info.
• Message Text: We’ll use ”Sent email message to %address% via %server%.”. Parameters %address% and %server% will have type ”String”.
Entering this information should give results similar to Figure 5.2. We can now click on Save
and New for entry of information for our second event definition.
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Figure 5.2: EMS Event Editor with First Event Information
We are now ready to define our second EMS event, the purpose of which is to log an unsuccessful
attempt to send an email message by our application, which we’ll define as follows:
• Condition Mnemonic: EMailSendFailed.
• Condition Severity: Error.
• Message Text: We’ll use ”Email send to %address% via %server% failed (%reason%.”.
All three parameters will have type ”String”.
Entering this information should give results similar to Figure 5.3. We can now click on Save
and Exit to produce the XML definitions for these events as shown in Listing 5.1.
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Figure 5.3: EMS Event Editor with Second Event Information
Source Code Listings 5.1: XML Definitions for EMS Events
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<?xml version=” 1 . 0 ” e n c o d i n g=”UTF−8” ?>
< !−− L a s t e d i t e d w i t h e x o s / t o o l s / xml2ems / emsEdit . p l on 05/03/2010 15 : 4 5 : 1 8 −−>
< !DOCTYPE Component SYSTEM ” . . / . . / . . / . . / system /ems/ i n c / ems component . dtd ”>
<Component Name=” sample ” F a c t o r y T h r e s h o l d=” I n f o ” T i t l e=”A sample EXOS a p p l i c a t i o n . ”
DocTypeVersion=” 4 ” FormatVersion=” 2 ” C o n t e n t V e r s i o n=” 1 ” Copyright=” Copyright ( c )
2002 −2009 by Extreme Networks I n c . ”>
<RCS Author=” $ Author $ ” Date=” $ Date $ ” F i l e=” $ RCSFile $ ” S o u r c e=” $ S o u r c e $ ” R e v i s i o n=”
$ R e v i s i o n $ ”>
<Log> </Log>
</RCS>
<S e v e r i t y U s e C r i t i c a l U s e=” C r i t i c a l ” ErrorUse=” E r r o r ” WarningUse=”Warning”
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”New”>
<Message>< ! [CDATA[% format%] ]></ Message>
<Parameter Name=” format ” Type=” P r i n t f ” />
<Comment>< ! [CDATA[ This i s a g e n e r i c Debugging summary i n f o r m a t i o n S e v e r i t y
C o n d i t i o n ] ]></Comment>
<D e s c r i p t i o n>< ! [CDATA[A c o n d i t i o n has been d e t e c t e d t h a t may i n t e r e s t a
developer determining the
r e a s o n u n d e r l y i n g some system b e h a v i o r . The c i r c u m s t a n c e s may be e i t h e r v e r y
common o r c o m p l e t e l y unexpected , but t h e i n f o r m a t i o n p r o v i d e d i n t h e a s s o c i a t e d
message i s such t h a t t h e i n t e r n a l w o r k i n g s o f t h e system a r e exposed . ] ]></
D e s c r i p t i o n>
<Remedy>< ! [CDATA[ There i s no remedy b e c a u s e t h e r e i s no problem t o be r e s o l v e d .
] ]></Remedy>
<Author>l r i c h a r d s o n</ Author>
</ C o n d i t i o n>
<C o n d i t i o n Mnemonic=” DebugVerbose ” S e v e r i t y=”Debug−Verbose ” Index=” 1 ” ReviewState=
”New”>
<Message>< ! [CDATA[% format%] ]></ Message>
<Parameter Name=” format ” Type=” P r i n t f ” />
<Comment>< ! [CDATA[ This i s a g e n e r i c Debugging v e r b o s e i n f o r m a t i o n S e v e r i t y
C o n d i t i o n ] ]></Comment>
<D e s c r i p t i o n>< ! [CDATA[A c o n d i t i o n has been d e t e c t e d t h a t may i n t e r e s t a
d e v e l o p e r a n a l y z i n g some
system b e h a v i o r a t a more v e r b o s e l e v e l than p r o v i d e d by t h e debug summary
i n f o r m a t i o n . ] ]></ D e s c r i p t i o n>
<Remedy>< ! [CDATA[ There i s no remedy b e c a u s e t h e r e i s no problem t o be r e s o l v e d .
] ]></Remedy>
<Author>l r i c h a r d s o n</ Author>
</ C o n d i t i o n>
<C o n d i t i o n Mnemonic=” EMailSent ” S e v e r i t y=” I n f o ” Index=” 2 ” ReviewState=”New”>
<Message>< ! [CDATA[ Sent e m a i l message t o %a d d r e s s% v i a %s e r v e r %. ] ]></ Message>
<Parameter Name=” a d d r e s s ” Type=” S t r i n g ” />
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5.5
Makefile Changes
Two small changes must be made to our Makefile before the C API files will be generated from
our newly-added event definition file. First, we need to add ems/sample ems dcl.c to BIN DIRS as
shown in Figure 5.2.
Source Code Listings 5.2: First Makefile Modification (Add Generated Source File)
BIN SRC
= sample . c \
smtpclient . c \
sample cli . c \
ems/ s a m p l e e m s d c l . c
Second, we need to define the constant EMS sample COMPONENT, which would normally be added
to the list of components in $SDKBASE/code/system/ems/inc/ems components.h. Since we are
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the compiler command-line as shown in Figure 5.3, taking the last enumeration constant listed in
$SDKBASE/code/system/ems/inc/ems components.h, which happens to be EMS Kern MPLS COMPONENT
in this case. (Note: we really need a better mechanism for this.)
Source Code Listings 5.3: Second Makefile Modification (Define EMS Component)
= −D EMS sample COMPONENT=\( EMS Kern MPLS COMPONENT+1\)
DEFS
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Source Code Changes
To enable EMS event logging in our application, we need to make two modifications to sample/src/sample.c.
First, we need to include the API definitions file sample ems api.h as shown in Figure 5.4.
Source Code Listings 5.4: Including sample ems api.h
#include
#include
#include
#include
#include
” maininc . h”
” s a m p l e o b j d e f . h”
” c l i s u b a g e n t . h”
” . . / i n c / s m t p c l i . h”
” . . / i n c /ems/ s a m p l e e m s a p i . h”
Second, we need to initialize the EMS library; this should be done after the dispatcher library
has been initialized and before the main dispatcher loop is entered, as shown in Figure 5.5.
Source Code Listings 5.5: Initializing EMS client library
/∗ −−− s n i p −−− ∗/
/∗ I n i t i a l i z e d i s p a t c h e r e v e n t h a n d l e r ∗/
d i s p a t c h I n i t (NULL,
/∗ Use d e f a u l t p r o c e s s name ∗/
0,
/∗ Use d e f a u l t k e e p a l i v e i n t e r v a l ∗/
0,
/∗ No c h i l d t h r e a d s ∗/
NULL,
/∗ Empty c h i l d t h r e a d a r r a y ∗/
DISPATCH NON THREADED) ; /∗ S i n g l e −t h r e a d e d a p p l i c a t i o n ∗/
/∗ I n i t i a l i z e EMS c l i e n t l i b r a r y ∗/
EMS REGISTER sample ( ) ;
e x o s S e t P r o c e s s S t a t e (DM PROCESS STATE LOADCFG) ;
/∗ −−− s n i p −−− ∗/
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With all the necessary prerequisites in place, we can now instrument our application to log the
newly created event messages, as shown in Listing 5.6.
Source Code Listings 5.6: Adding logging for email events
/∗ −−− s n i p −−− ∗/
s t a t i c void sampleSendMailCB ( void ∗ arg1 , void ∗ a r g 2 )
{
int r c ;
char ∗ s e r v e r = ” 1 0 . 5 . 2 . 1 5 8 ” ;
char ∗ a d d r e s s = ” l r i c h a r d s o n @ S y z y g y −HLR” ;
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rc = smtp post ( server ,
” 10.66.4.10 ” ,
” someone@somecorp . com” ,
address ,
” H e l l o , world ! \ n” ) ;
emsTraceLogf ( debug handle , 0 , ” s m t p p o s t ( ) r e t u r n e d %d” , r c ) ;
switch ( r c ) {
case 0 : /∗ s u c c e s s ∗/
EMS sample EMailSent ( a d d r e s s , s e r v e r ) ;
break ;
case −1: /∗ s o c k e t ( ) or s e t s o c k o p t ( ) f a i l e d ∗/
EMS sample EMailSendFailed ( a d d r e s s , s e r v e r ,
” socket operation f a i l e d ”) ;
break ;
case −2: /∗ g e t h o s t b y n a m e ( ) f a i l e d ∗/
EMS sample EMailSendFailed ( a d d r e s s , s e r v e r ,
” c o u l d not r e s o l v e s e r v e r a d d r e s s ” ) ;
break ;
case −3: /∗ c o n n e c t ( ) f a i l e d ∗/
EMS sample EMailSendFailed ( a d d r e s s , s e r v e r ,
” c o u l d not e s t a b l i s h c o n n e c t i o n t o s e r v e r ” ) ;
break ;
default : /∗ p r o t o c o l e r r o r or c o n n e c t i o n l o s s ∗/
EMS sample EMailSendFailed ( a d d r e s s , s e r v e r ,
” p r o t o c o l e r r o r or connection l o s s ” ) ;
break ;
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application SDK. In this chapter we introduce the VLAN Manager API with examples of its use to
monitor changes to VLAN configuration.
VLAN Manager API
The EXOS VLAN Manager application is responsible for maintaining and coordinating numerous
aspects of VLAN configuration and run-time status, including:
• VLAN creation, deletion, and tagging configuration.
• VLAN port membership and port state.
• L3 interface information.
• Virtual router instances.
• Physical port configuration and status.
The VLAN Manager APIs enable EXOS applications to retrieve information maintained by
VLAN manager when needed and to monitor changes to this information.
6.3
Using VLAN Manager APIs
Code related to the use of VLAN manager APIs will be contained in a new file, sample vlan.c,
which is shown in Figure 6.1 and summarized as follows:
• Line 1 includes maininc.h, as described in Chapter 2 previously.
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• Line 3 includes a new header file for the sample application, the contents of which are shown
in Figure 6.2.
• Lines 5-17 define a callback function to be called when a new VLAN has been created.
• Lines 19-26 define a callback function to be called when a VLAN is being deleted.
• Lines 28-37 define a callback function to be called when the 802.1q VLAN tag value has been
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application. First the clientProcessInfo t structure is initialized with non-NULL callback
function pointers for all desired events, then connectToVlanMgr() is called to initialize the
API library. Note that the first parameter to this function specifies which databases should
be populated locally, in this case both L2 and L3 information will be maintained locally.
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return 1 ;
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/∗ Function t o i n i t i a l i z e t h e a p p l i c a t i o n ’ s i n t e r f a c e t o VLAN manager ∗/
void s a m p l e v l a n i n i t ( void )
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memset (& i n f o , 0 , s i z e o f i n f o ) ;
i n f o . fnPtrCreateVlan
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i n f o . fnPtrCfgTagToVlan = c o n f i g v l a n t a g c b ;
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Each callback function simply logs a portion of its parameters to the debug trace buffer, which can
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FDB Manager API
The EXOS FDB Manager application is responsible for maintaining and reporting information
related to the Layer 2 FDB, including static and dynamic FDB entries, filters for various MAC
addresses requiring special handling (STP, LLDP, etc.), and address resolution tables.
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Code related to the use of FDB manager APIs will be contained in a new file, sample fdb.c, which
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• Sending of WoL (Wake-on-LAN) packets when initiated by a CLI command.
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/∗ D e f i n e s t r u c t u r e o f Wake−on−LAN P a c k et ∗/
struct woLPacket {
u i n t 8 t da [ ETH ALEN ] ;
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Kernel Module Makefile
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70 m o d u l e e x i t ( n u l l m o d e x i t ) ;
71 MODULE LICENSE( ” Extreme Networks P r o p r i e t a r y ” ) ;
Extreme Networks Confidential
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Index
CLI (Command-Line Interface)
Architecture, 33
Definition File, 16
T
Dispatcher, 28
Timers, 28
DM (Device Manager)
Definition, 19
DR
AF
EMS (Event Management System), 43
Architecture, 43
Debug Trace Buffers, 29
Environment Variables
SDKBASE, 10
EPM (EXOS Process Manager)
Responsibilities, 14
Files
cli, 16
epmrc, 17
Kernel Module Makefile, 65
Makefile, 21
obj, 16
spec, 16
version, 22
IPML (Inter-Process Messaging Layer)
Architecture, 14
Loadable Kernel Modules, 65
SMTP (Simple Mail Transport Protocol)
Client, 25
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