merge of 'daniel/controlif' branch

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Harald Welte laforge at gnumonks.org
Wed Jul 13 13:03:19 UTC 2011


Hi!

After many delays on my side (it kept falling off my TODO list), I have
finally merged the daniel/controlif branch earlier today.

For those who haven't heard about it so far:  It is code that allows us
to remotely get and/or set attributes of the BSC.  Furthermore, it
supports traps (similar to SNMP traps).

The idea of it is to allow us to have centralized management of networks
with many OpenBSC installations, offering SNMP-like feel but without
adding the complexity of SNMP (asn.1, etc.) to OpenBSC itself.

We might at some point have an independent gateway process that exports
the attributes through real SNMP, but that mostly depensd on whether any
production networks have such a requirement or not.

The control interface is implemented either stand-alone (for osmo-nitb)
or via the regular A and A-bis/IP as an additional ip.access stream
identifier.

Thanks to Daniel for writing the code, to On-Waves for funding the
development and once again my apologies for the delays.

btw: I have done a couple of cosmetic clean up commits in addition to
Daniels branch, hopefully I didn't break anything while doign that...

Regards,
	Harald
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