Re: [Idr] [GROW] draft-snijders-idr-shutdown-00: Drop a line in the peer's syslog at shutdown

[Robert Raszuk <[e-mail]>]

>
> I'm certainly not against allowing people to send a URL
> or other data, but our use case is likely to be the ticket# and/or
> a phone number for contacting our NOC to streamline communication.


​Actually what drove my suggestion for URL was as usual desire for
automation.

As 128 octets of unstructured free form text is proposed that still
requires human reading the text which is something we should try to avoid
IMHO. Worse it requires someone to pick up the phone and make a call ...

At min perhaps draft should define ​few optional prefixes/key words which
could be machine recognized: "url:", "mail:", "phone:", "description:",
"eta:", "ticket:", "duration:" etc ....

Reason ... if the outage is to last 5-10 min in the middle of the night (ad
delta from current time vs eta or duration) the analyzing script will not
raise the alarm and will save few folks to being woken up. Simple and
useful IMHO. Not everyone has 24/7 NOC.

And btw - while good idea - adding it show bgp neighbor will likely break
many parsers and will require yang model extension :).

Cheers,
R.

PS. Do we need to extend BMP too ?