NIA

Extensible device plugins

Interlude is extensible to support more devices by implementing plugins that provide a mapping from a southbound (like CLI, NETCONF, SNMP) to yang. These include support for feature configuration and retrieval of operational data like inventory, topology and statistics. These plugins can be specified at a platform level or have specific overrides per device. The plugins can be hot-deployed to support newer devices without any downtime. The plugins use a declarative language thus allowing support for newer plugins without having to perform a software update.

Device Management

Interlude supports discovery of an existing network by multiple methods. Once discovered, each device is managed using a state machine that executes inventory, topology and other operational commands as specified by a plugin relevant to the device. The outcomes of these operations are stored in a yang modelled data-stores. Any of these operations have ability to be scheduled at regular intervals.