nmautils README

Features

NMA Utils is build for Network Metadata Automation team member daily work. We spend lots of time to switch file within grpah, this extension want to make things easier and try to analyse some complex problem.

Graph Navigation

We can swith between Graph file for one device or DeviceTemplate, RackSku easier.

Device Dashboard

A page conains all the information for one deivce.

Graph search

A search sidebar can auto apply some special pattern.

Requirements

If you want to use this extension, you must have a local Networking-Metadata repo and open vscode in repo root path.

Extension Settings

This extension contributes the following settings:

nmautils.enableGraphCache: Enable/disable this graph cache.

nmautils.graphHotFiles: The customized hot file in sidebar.

"nmautils.graphHotFiles": [
        {
            "label": "CommonBgpPolicy",
            "relativePath": "src\\data\\Network\\appdata\\NBaaS\\BgpPolicy\\CommonBgpPolicy.xml"
        }
    ]

Known Issues

The graph search looks suspicious for Defender, because it looks at so much file, Then defender will occupy CPU, and slow down the search process. Our suggestion is add exception for Networking-Metadata repo in Defender.

Windows Settings => Privacy & Security => Windows Security => Virus & threat protection
Under Virus & threat protectio settings click on Manage settings
Go to the bottom, you can find Exclusions, click on Add or remove exclusions.
Add exclusion for Networking-Metadata local repo.

Release Notes

0.0.14

Support customized hot file.

0.0.13

Add a Graph Hot File view for Sidebar.
Go to DeviceInfoSpecifications from AutoGeneratedSkus.
Go To DcFolder (DeviceMetadata) from DataCenters.xml and Regions.xml.

0.0.12

Device dashboard add device slice.

0.0.11

Stop graph search when keyword too short.

0.0.10

Fix Graph Search scopes duplication issue

0.0.9

Device Dashboard show error message when catch exception.
Improve Graph cache file structure, reduce > 30% time and some memory usage when read cache from file.
Graph search save search scopes as cache and load next time.

0.0.8

Graph search add Vlad option.
Graph Search add min keyword length, avoid too much result.
Fix bug for graph search may skip some result.
Graph within folder navigation add DeviceSlice and BuildMetadata.
Hide Device Dashboard when result is not ready to avoid confusion.

0.0.7

Graph search streaming output, add options groups, add CommonNGD/Others searching option.

0.0.6

Add Go to blade sku from RackSkus
Add Heap Snapshot utils
Improve Graph Search UI and add CaseMatch toggle
Improve auto refresh cache with git update, less time gap.

ToDo list

Try find seed.
Match port channel and link, A BGPAnalyzer.
Parse and filter NBaaS policy (Pending, not sure how to do it).

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