A YANG model for Power Management
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IVY Working Group T. Li Internet-Draft R. Bonica Intended status: Standards Track Juniper Networks Expires: 20 April 2025 17 October 2024 A YANG model for Power Management draft-li-green-power-00 Abstract Network sustainability is a key issue facing the industry. Networks consume significant amounts of power at a time when the cost of power is rising and sensitivity about sustainability is very high. As an industry, we need to find ways to optimize the power efficiency of our networks both at a micro and macro level. We have observed that traffic levels fluctuate and when traffic ebbs there is much more capacity than is needed. Powering off portions of network elements could save a significant amount of power, but to scale and be practical, this must be automated. The natural mechanism for enabling automation would be a Yet Another Next Generation (YANG) interface, so this document proposes a YANG model for power management. 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Li & Bonica Expires 20 April 2025 [Page 1] Internet-Draft YANG Power Management October 2024 This document is subject to BCP 78 and the IETF Trust's Legal Provisions Relating to IETF Documents (https://trustee.ietf.org/ license-info) in effect on the date of publication of this document. Please review these documents carefully, as they describe your rights and restrictions with respect to this document. Code Components extracted from this document must include Revised BSD License text as described in Section 4.e of the Trust Legal Provisions and are provided without warranty as described in the Revised BSD License. Table of Contents 1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 1.1. Requirement Language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 2. Power Management Elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 2.1. Power consumption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 2.2. Power control capability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 2.3. Power control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 2.4. Automatic Power Saving . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 3. Functional Dependencies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 3.1. Required Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 3.2. Dependent components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 4. Tree Representation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 5. Traffic Planning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 5.1. Tree Representation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 6. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 7. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 8. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 1. Introduction Network sustainability is a key issue facing the industry. Networks consume significant amounts of power at a time when the cost of power is rising and sensitivity about sustainability is very high. As an industry, we need to find ways to optimize the power efficiency of our networks both at a micro and macro level. We have observed that traffic levels fluctuate and when traffic ebbs there is much more capacity than is needed. Powering off portions of network elements could save a significant amount of power, but to scale and be practical, this must be automated. The natural mechanism for enabling automation would be a Yet Another Next Generation (YANG) interface, so this document proposes a YANG model for power management. [RFC8348] already provides a model for server hardware management, but does not naturally extend to routers and other network elements. That gap is currently being addressed by Li & Bonica Expires 20 April 2025 [Page 2] Internet-Draft YANG Power Management October 2024 [I-D.ietf-ivy-network-inventory-yang]. This document extends the work presented there to include power management. Specifically, this document augments the 'component' object found at /ietf-network- inventory/network-elements/network-element/components/component. This initial draft only provides a tree representation. When there is rough consensus on the tree represetnation, the details of the model will be fleshed out. 1.1. Requirement Language The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT", "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "NOT RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this document are to be interpreted as described in BCP 14 [RFC2119] [RFC8174] when, and only when, they appear in all capitals, as shown here. These words may also appear in this document in lower case as plain English words, absent their normative meanings. 2. Power Management Elements The models mentioned above already model a router or network element as a set of components. The details of those components are left to the specific implementation and can be at any level of specificity. Thanks to this flexibility, it is necessary and sufficient that we characterize power management relative to components. The elements defined below allow management entities to understand how much power each component is using and whether the component can be placed into a 'power-save' mode where it would consume less power. Another element allows the management plane to put the component into power-save mode. 2.1. Power consumption Name: used-power Node Type: leaf Data Type: uint32 Description: Power drawn by the component, in watts. This node is applied to components in the model. If an accurate dynamic power measurement is not available, then static power estimates are acceptable. Li & Bonica Expires 20 April 2025 [Page 3] Internet-Draft YANG Power Management October 2024 Name: total-used-power Node Type: leaf Data Type: uint32 Description: Power drawn by the component and its subcomponents, in watts. This node captures the total power used by a component and all of its subcomponents. This simplifies reporting requirements. If an accurate dynamic power measurement is not available, then static power estimates are acceptable. 2.2. Power control capability Name: power-save-capable Node Type: leaf Data Type: boolean Description: True if the component can be put into power-save mode. 2.3. Power control Name: power-save Node Type: leaf Data Type: Boolean Access: Read/write Description: True if the component is in power-save mode. There have been suggestions that this leaf should accept a variety of values, representing many different 'power states'. This presumes that the external entity understands the exact state of the device, the impact of the power state, and the optimal setting. A better approach is to enable automatic power saving on the component and then provide information to the device about the external state to allow the device to optimize its own behavior. Section 5 is an example of the type of external state information that may be useful. 2.4. Automatic Power Saving Some systems (e.g., fan trays) have the capability to self-manage their power consumption. However there are cases where this capability should be disabled. Name: automatic-power-saving Node Type: leaf Data Type: Boolean Access: Read/write Description: True if the component is regulating its own power. Li & Bonica Expires 20 April 2025 [Page 4] Internet-Draft YANG Power Management October 2024 3. Functional Dependencies Most inventory models have a hierarchy of components. This hierarchy reflects the physical structure of the system (e.g., a line card can physically contain a port). With regard to physical containment, components maintain a one-to- many relationship. That is, Component A can contain many other components, including Component B. However, component B can be contain by only one component (i.e., Component A.) However, legacy inventory models do not reflect functional dependencies. Specifically, they do not indicate which components obtain services from, and therefore depend, components other than their container. Because funtional dependencies are relavant to power management, they are included in the proposed model. With regard to functional dependencies, components maintain a many- to-many relationship. That is, a component can reuire on many components and be required by many other components. Functional dependencies may be updated dynamically. 3.1. Required Components This container holds a list of components that the component uses. For example, a linecard uses a set of switch cards, so the switch cards would be required components. If the bandwidth used by the linecard changes, then the set of switch cards that are required may change dynamically. Name: required-components Node Type: list Description: A list of other components that are required for this component to operate. 3.2. Dependent components This container holds a list of components that are used by this component. For example, a switch card is used by a set of line cards, so the line cards would be dependent components. This list can also change dynamically. Name: dependent-components Node Type: list Description: A list of other components that are used by this component. Li & Bonica Expires 20 April 2025 [Page 5] Internet-Draft YANG Power Management October 2024 4. Tree Representation +--rw component* [component-id] +--rw component-id string +--ro used-power? uint32 +--ro power-save-capable? boolean +--rw power-save? boolean +--ro required-components* -> ../../component/component-id +--ro dependent-components* -> ../../component/component-id 5. Traffic Planning Some systems have the capability of automatically managing their power consumption if they have an understanding of the expected traffic loads. To provide this, we provide the expected input and output bandwidth for each interface and augment '/interfaces/ interface' [RFC8343] with the following: Name: expected-input-bandwidth Node Type: leaf Data Type: yang:gauge64 Default: 0 Access: Read/write Description: The expected input bandwidth of the interface, in Mbps. A value of zero (0) indicates full bandwidth. Name: expected-output-bandwidth Node Type: leaf Data Type: yang:gauge64 Default: 0 Access: Read/write Description: The expected output bandwidth of the interface, in Mbps. A value of zero (0) indicates full bandwidth. 5.1. Tree Representation +--rw interface* [name] +--rw expected-input-bandwidth? yang:gauge64 +--rw expected-output-bandwidth? yang:gauge64 6. Security Considerations YANG provides information about and configuration capabilities to the network management plane. Other mechanisms already exist that help secure these interactions. This document extends the scope of what can be controlled by the management plane, but creates no new access paths. Li & Bonica Expires 20 April 2025 [Page 6] Internet-Draft YANG Power Management October 2024 7. IANA Considerations This document makes no requests for IANA. 8. Normative References [RFC8348] Bierman, A., Bjorklund, M., Dong, J., and D. Romascanu, "A YANG Data Model for Hardware Management", RFC 8348, DOI 10.17487/RFC8348, March 2018, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8348>. [I-D.ietf-ivy-network-inventory-yang] Yu, C., Belotti, S., Bouquier, J., Peruzzini, F., and P. Bedard, "A YANG Data Model for Network Inventory", Work in Progress, Internet-Draft, draft-ietf-ivy-network- inventory-yang-03, 7 July 2024, <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-ivy- network-inventory-yang-03>. [RFC2119] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, DOI 10.17487/RFC2119, March 1997, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc2119>. [RFC8174] Leiba, B., "Ambiguity of Uppercase vs Lowercase in RFC 2119 Key Words", BCP 14, RFC 8174, DOI 10.17487/RFC8174, May 2017, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8174>. [RFC8343] Bjorklund, M., "A YANG Data Model for Interface Management", RFC 8343, DOI 10.17487/RFC8343, March 2018, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8343>. Authors' Addresses Tony Li Juniper Networks Email: tony.li@tony.li Ron Bonica Juniper Networks Email: rbonica@juniper.net Li & Bonica Expires 20 April 2025 [Page 7]