NDT Plugin REST API

Following authentication types are supported:

  • basic (/ufmRest)

  • client (/ufmRestV2)

  • token (/ufmRestV3)

  • Description: Uploads NDT file to UFM

  • URL: POST ufmRestV2/plugin/ndt/upload_metadata

  • Request Data:

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    [ { "file_name": "topo1.ndt", "file": base64 string, "file_type": "switch_to_host", "sha-1": "xxx" }, { "file_name": "topo2.ndt", "file": base64 string, "file_type": "switch_to_switch", "sha-1": "xxx" } ]

  • Response: N/A

  • Status Codes:

    • 200 – Ok.

    • 400 – bad request (bad or missing parameters).

    • 500 - insufficient resources (disk space)

  • Description: Deletes NDT files from UFM

  • URL: POST ufmRestV2/plugin/ndt/delete

  • Request Content Type – Application/json

  • Request Data:

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    [ { "file_name": "topo1.ndt" }, { "file_name": "topo2.ndt" } ]

  • Response: N/A

  • Status Codes:

    • 200 – Ok.

    • 400 – bad request (bad or missing parameters).

    • 404 – not found.

  • Description: Get list of uploaded NDT files

  • URL: GET ufmRestV2/plugin/ndt/list

  • Request Data: N/A

  • Response:

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    [ { "file_name": "topo1.ndt", "last_uploaded": "2020-09-13 10:57:09.253", "sha-1”: "c3499c2729730a7f807efb8676a92dcb6f8a3f8f", "file_type": "switch_to_host" }, { "file_name": "topo2.ndt", "last_uploaded": "2020-08-15 11:55:19.203", "sha-1": "a94a8fe5ccb19ba61c4c0873d391e987982fbbd3", "file_type": "switch_to_switch" } ]

  • Status Codes:

    • 200 – Ok.

    • 400 – bad request (bad or missing parameters).

  • Description: Run NDT topo compare and save last X reports

  • URL: POST ufmRestV2/plugin/ndt/compare

  • Request Data (Optional):

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    { "run": { "startTime": "2020-10-01 16:40:59", "endTime": "2020-10-01 18:45:59", "interval": 3600 } }

    Warning
    • request data is needed only to define periodic execution

    • startTime - when to start the first run

    • endTime - the time of the last run

    • interval - interval between the runs in minutes

  • Response: N/A

  • Status Codes:

    • 200 – Ok

    • 400 – bad request (bad or missing parameters).

  • Description: Cancels periodic NDT comparison

  • URL: GET ufmRestV2/plugin/ndt/cancel

  • Request: N/A

  • Response: N/A

  • Status Codes:

    • 200 – Ok.

    • 400 – bad request (bad or missing parameters).

  • Description: Get reports list

  • URL: GET ufmRestV2/plugin/ndt/reports

  • Request: N/A

  • Response Content Type – Application/json

  • Response:

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    [ { "report_id": "1", "report_scope": "Periodic", "timestamp": "2021-06-22 11:00:00" }, { "report_id": "2", "report_scope": "Periodic", "timestamp": "2021-06-22 11:05:00" }, { "report_id": "3", "report_scope": "Periodic", "timestamp": "2021-06-22 11:10:00" }, ]

  • Status Codes:

    • 200 – Ok.

    • 400 – bad request (bad or missing parameters).

  • Description: Get a specific report

  • URL: GET ufmRestV2/plugin/ndt/reports/

  • Request: N/A

  • Response Content Type – Application/json

  • Response:

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    { "error”: "", "timestamp": "2020-09-13 10:57:09.253", "report": { "miss-wired": [ { "expected": "DSM09-0101-0617-001IB2/P2 - DSM09-0101-0721-001IB4/P2" "actual": “DSM09-0101-0617-001IB2/P2 - DSM09-0101-0721-001IB4/P3" }, { "expected": "DSM09-0101-0721-001IB4/P3 - DSM09-0101-0617-001IB2/P2" "actual": "DSM09-0101-0721-001IB4/P3 - DSM09-0101-0617-001IB2/P4" } ], "missing_in_ufm": [ "DSM09-0101-0617-001IB2/P2-DSM09-0101 - 0721-001IB4/P2", "DSM09-0101-0617-001IB2/P3-DSM09-0101 - 0721-001IB4/P3" ], "missing_in_ndt": [ "DSM09-0101-0617-001IB2/P6-DSM09-0101 - 0721-001IB4/P6", "DSM09-0101-0617-001IB2/P5-DSM09-0101 - 0721-001IB4/P5" ] } }

    Warning

    In case the report can’t be generated, the error would be raised:

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    { "errors": "Can’t parse file topo1.ndt", "timestamp": "2020-09-13 10:57:09.253" }

  • Status Codes:

    Warning

    The report can have three types of link and should be limited to the first 10K error events:

    • miss-wired links - links that are connected differently than specified in the NDTs

    • missing_in_ufm - links that are specified in the NDT files, but missing in the UFM

    • missing_in_ndt - links that aren’t specified in the NDT, but found by the UFM

    • 200 – Ok.

    • 400 – bad request (bad or missing parameters).

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