Internet-Draft Network Inventory Management February 2023
Wu, et al. Expires 14 August 2023 [Page]
Workgroup:
OPSAWG
Internet-Draft:
draft-wzwb-opsawg-network-inventory-management-01
Published:
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Standards Track
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Authors:
B. Wu
Huawei
C. Zhou
China Mobile
Q. Wu
Huawei
M. Boucadair
Orange

An Inventory Management Model for Enterprise Networks

Abstract

This document defines a YANG model for network inventory management, which provides consistent representation and reporting of network nodes (including endpoints) inventory and enable a network orchestrator in the enterprise network to maintain a centralized view of all the endpoint types across multiple domains of the underlying network to implement a coherent control strategy.

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1. Introduction

Enterprise networks are becoming heterogenous and supporting a variety of device types, such as BYOD vs. enterprise-supplied devices, Internet of things (IoT) devices, IP phones, printers, IP cameras), OT (Operation Technology) devices (e.g., sensors), etc. Also, these networks are designed to support both localized applications and cloud-based applications (e.g., public cloud computing, storage, etc.), or hybrid applications. Also, means to access network resources are not anymore from within specific sites, but access can be granted from anywhere. Dedicated gateways and authorization procedures are being generalized.

This trend is observed for the medical, power, manufacturing, or other infrastructure industries. These networks host a large number of multi-vendor IoT or OT devices, with frequent additions and changes. These complex environments often expose unknown safety and reliability blind spots.

The endpoints connected to an Enterprise network lack unified modelling and lifecycle management, and different services are modelled, collected, processed, and stored separately. The same category of network device and network endpoints may be (repeatedly) discovered, processed, and stored. Therefore, the inventory is difficult to manage when they are tracked in different places. Maintaining a centralized and up-to-date inventory is a technical enabler in order to implement a coherent control strategy for all endpoint types connected to an Enterprise network.

[RFC8345] defines a network topology model that can be used for network inventory extensions. The SAP network model [I-D.ietf-opsawg-sap] provides inventory data associated with Service Attachment Points (SAPs), which maintains an inventory of nodes contained in a network relying upon [RFC8345]. For the enterprise networks, the network endpoint and the network context with the endpoints need to be further defined.

This document defines a YANG network model for inventory management, which provide consistent representation and reporting of network inventory types.

Note: The following needs to be clarified:

X. Why This Model Is Needed?

<<Include a summary of why existing models do not fit the need>>

[RFC8345] defines a network topology model that can be used for network inventory extensions. The SAP network model [I-D.ietf-opsawg-sap] provides inventory data associated with Service Attachment Points (SAPs), which maintains an inventory of nodes contained in a network relying upon [RFC8345].

X. Why This Model is Specific to Enterprises?

<<include a discussion on the specificity of endpoints>>

2. Requirements 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.

This document defines the following term:

Network Inventory:
Provides a representation of entities either as a network device, security device or network endpoint device, which include physical or virtual. It provides information related to devices, which could include hardware components, software/firmware information and management information relevant for the device. Network endpoints, physical or virtual, include physical computing equipment, e.g. physical servers in data centers, desktop computers, mobile devices, laptops, printers, sensors, and cloud-based endpoints, such as Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications, IaaS computing, storage, etc.

3. Sample Use Cases

The YANG model of network inventory is used to provide abstract interfaces to obtain network inventory under each network management systems or network controllers of different domains of an enterprise.

Figure 1 shows an example of an enterprise network consisting of two network domains: one campus network domain and one cloud network domain. The inventory data in the network can include network infrastructure devices (such as routers, switchs, security devices) and network endpoints (such as IoT/OT devices, servers, laptop, mobile devices). The management systems or network controllers in different domains can automatically collect or discover the inventory by multiple approaches.

            +-------------------------------------+
            | Service/network   Orchestration     |
            +-------------------------------------+
                |                               |
                |     network inventory model   |
                |                               |
                |                               |
        +----------------+              +----------------+
        | Campus manager |              | SD-WAN manager |
        +----------------+              +-------+--------+
                |                               |
                |                               |
                |                               |
  +-------------------------+            +------+--------------------+
  |     Campus Domain #1    |            |     Cloud network         |
  |                         |            |                           |
  |-------+  +-----------+  |            | +-----------+   +-------+ |
  |+IT/OTs+- +  Router   +--+---------   +-+vRouter    +---+Service| |
  |-------+  +-----------+  |            | ------------+   +-------+ |
  |                         |            |                           |
  |Site A                   |            |             Cloud Site B  |
  +-------------------------+            +---------------------------+
Figure 1: An Example of Enterprise Network Management

With the inventory data collected from the underlying network, the network orchestration system can centrally manage security and network policies related to network endpoints. Figure 2 shows an enterprise network function abstraction, in which centralized network policy management is on top of the network inventory and other network and security functions to achieve a specific set of network outcomes. For example, the use cases can continuously ensure the security of enterprise networks or optimized traffic engineering in order to meet the performance requirements of business critical applications.

    +---------------+  +-------------+
    |               |  |             |
    |Access Policies|  |Service SLA  |
    |               |  |Policies     |
    |               |  |             |
    +---------------+  +-------------+
    - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
      Network Inventory model
    +---------+ +----------+ +-----------------------------------+
    |         | |          | | Endpoint                          |
    | Network | | Security | | servers,desktop computers,        |
    | devices | | devices  | | mobile devices,cloud endpoints ...|
    +---------+ +----------+ +-----------------------------------+

Figure 2: Enterprise Network Abstraction

3.1. Inventory Classification and Characteristics

The network inventory defined in this document can be further classified into network nodes and network endpoints. The network nodes include network devices (e.g., routers, security devices). The network endpoints include IT devices, IoT devices, OT devices, personal owned devices, or cloud applications. The inventory can be managed with better control by categorizing and organizing them into custom groups based on a set of criteria local to each Enterprise.

The network inventory provides a set of common device attributes consisting of manufacturer, model, operating system, serial number, and more information. The attributes can include both hardware and software data. The hardware data is from IETF hardware YANG which includes hardware specifications, firmware and software versions installed on them, asset-ids, and status. Software data could be operating system, operating system update, software module, etc. The attributes can also provide network context information about the interconnection relationship between network devices and the location or underlaying devices of the network endpoint to access the network.

3.2. Inventory Management Process

Systems that provide network inventory usually involves the following steps:

Identification: The first step is to create a detailed inventory of all network devices and network endpoints. The systems should automatically discover each device or endpoint when connected.
Tracking: This involves continuously monitoring, including gathering status, identifying new devices in the network,and traffic patterns. By establishing the process, the system gets real-time data on the state of all the inventory.

3.3. Network Wide Policy Management

Policy Management provides policy-based access control on requested resources, such as user, device access, east west communication between network endpoints.

Knowing the list of software or hardware/firmware installed on network devices and network endpoints, is useful to understand and maintain the security state and healthy state of a network infrastructure. For example, if an enterprise policy requires the presence of certain software and prohibits the presence of other software, reported software installation information can be used to indicate compliance and non-compliance with these requirements. Software/hardware/firmware installation inventory lists can further be used to determine a network equipment's exposure to attack based on comparison of vulnerability or threat alerts against identified security profile data.

3.4. The example Digital Twin Network

[I-D.irtf-nmrg-network-digital-twin-arch] defines "digital twin network" as a virtual representation of the physical network. Such virtual representation of the network is meant to be used to analyze, diagnose, emulate, and then manage the physical network based on data, models, and interfaces. A digital twin network architecture is proposed as follows.

        +---------------------------------------------------------+
        |   +-------+   +-------+          +-------+              |
        |   | App 1 |   | App 2 |   ...    | App n |   Application|
        |   +-------+   +-------+          +-------+              |
        +-------------^-------------------+-----------------------+
                      |Capability Exposure| Intent Input
                      |                   |
        +-------------+-------------------v-----------------------+
        |                        Instance of Digital Twin Network |
        |  +--------+   +------------------------+   +--------+   |
        |  |        |   | Service Mapping Models |   |        |   |
        |  |        |   |  +------------------+  |   |        |   |
        |  | Data   +--->  |Functional Models |  +---> Digital|   |
        |  | Repo-  |   |  +-----+-----^------+  |   | Twin   |   |
        |  | sitory |   |        |     |         |   | Network|   |
        |  |        |   |  +-----v-----+------+  |   |  Mgmt  |   |
        |  |        <---+  |  Basic Models    |  <---+        |   |
        |  |        |   |  +------------------+  |   |        |   |
        |  +--------+   +------------------------+   +--------+   |
        +--------^----------------------------+-------------------+
                 |                            |
                 | data collection            | control
        +--------+----------------------------v-------------------+
        |                   Physical Network                      |
        |                                                         |
        +---------------------------------------------------------+

The service orchestration system can use digital twin platform to build visual relationship maps for networks and endpoints with relationship types and dependencies, and identify potential impacts on configuration management information from incidents, problems, and changes.

The inventory model can, for example, be used to emulate several what-if scenario such as the impact of EOL or depletion of a hardware component on the network resilience and service availability.

4. Model Overview

The following tree diagram [RFC8340] provides an overview of the data model for "ietf-network-inventory" module.

module: ietf-network-inventory
  augment /nw:networks/nw:network/nw:network-types:
    +--rw network-inventory!
  augment /nw:networks/nw:network/nw:node:
    +--rw name?                      string
    +--ro node-type?                 identityref
    +--ro is-virtual?                boolean
    +--ro is-gateway?                boolean
    +--ro gateway-ref?               -> ../name
    +--rw management-ipv4-address?   inet:host
    +--rw management-ipv6-address?   inet:host
    +--ro mac-address?               yang:mac-address
    +--ro mud-url?                   inet:uri
    +--ro transparency-info?         inet:uri
    +--rw site?                      string
    +--ro hardware-rev?              string
    +--ro firmware-rev?              string
    +--ro software-rev?              string
    +--ro serial-num?                string
    +--ro mfg-name?                  string
    +--ro model-name?                string
    +--ro alias?                     string
    +--ro asset-id?                  string
    +--ro mfg-date?                  yang:date-and-time
    +--ro uri*                       inet:uri
    +--ro uuid?                      yang:uuid
    +--ro oper-state?                oper-state
    +--rw components
    |  +--rw component* [name]
    |     +--rw name              string
    |     +--ro class?            union
    |     +--ro parent?           -> ../../component/name
    |     +--ro parent-rel-pos?   int32
    |     +--ro is-fru?           boolean
    |     +--ro hardware-rev?     string
    |     +--ro firmware-rev?     string
    |     +--ro software-rev?     string
    |     +--ro serial-num?       string
    |     +--ro mfg-name?         string
    |     +--ro model-name?       string
    |     +--ro alias?            string
    |     +--ro asset-id?         string
    |     +--ro mfg-date?         yang:date-and-time
    |     +--ro uri*              inet:uri
    |     +--ro uuid?             yang:uuid
    |     +--ro oper-state?       oper-state
    |     +--ro usage-state?      hw:usage-state
    |     +--ro alarm-state?      hw:alarm-state
    |     +--ro standby-state?    hw:standby-state
    +--rw geo-location
       +--rw reference-frame
       |  +--rw alternate-system?    string {alternate-systems}?
       |  +--rw astronomical-body?   string
       |  +--rw geodetic-system
       |     +--rw geodetic-datum?    string
       |     +--rw coord-accuracy?    decimal64
       |     +--rw height-accuracy?   decimal64
       +--rw (location)?
       |  +--:(ellipsoid)
       |  |  +--rw latitude?    decimal64
       |  |  +--rw longitude?   decimal64
       |  |  +--rw height?      decimal64
       |  +--:(cartesian)
       |     +--rw x?           decimal64
       |     +--rw y?           decimal64
       |     +--rw z?           decimal64
       +--rw velocity
       |  +--rw v-north?   decimal64
       |  +--rw v-east?    decimal64
       |  +--rw v-up?      decimal64
       +--rw timestamp?         yang:date-and-time
       +--rw valid-until?       yang:date-and-time
  augment /nw:networks/nw:network/nt:link:
    +--ro link-name?          string
    +--ro link-description?   string
    +--ro link-type?          string
    +--ro oper-state?         oper-state
  augment /nw:networks/nw:network/nw:node/nt:termination-point:
    +--ro tp-name?          string
    +--ro tp-description?   string
    +--ro tp-type?          string
    +--ro oper-state?       oper-state

5. YANG Data model for Network Inventory Management

The "ietf-network-inventory" module uses types defined in [RFC6991], [RFC8345], [RFC8348], and [RFC9179].

<CODE BEGINS> file="ietf-network-inventory@2023-02-10.yang"
module ietf-network-inventory {
  yang-version 1.1;
  namespace "urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:yang:ietf-network-inventory";
  prefix nw-inv;

  import ietf-network {
    prefix nw;
    reference
      "RFC 8345: A YANG Data Model for Network Topologies";
  }
  import ietf-network-topology {
    prefix nt;
    reference
      "RFC 8345: A YANG Data Model for Network Topologies";
  }
  import ietf-inet-types {
    prefix inet;
    reference
      "RFC 6991: Common YANG Data Types";
  }
  import ietf-yang-types {
    prefix yang;
    reference
      "RFC 6991: Common YANG Data Types";
  }
  import iana-hardware {
    prefix ianahw;
    reference
      "RFC 8348: A YANG Data Model for Hardware Management";
  }
  import ietf-hardware {
    prefix hw;
    reference
      "RFC 8348: A YANG Data Model for Hardware Management";
  }
  import ietf-geo-location {
    prefix geo;
    reference
      "RFC 9179: A YANG Grouping for Geographic Locations";
  }
  import iana-if-type {
    prefix ianaift;
  }

  organization
    "IETF OPSAWG (Operations and Management Area Working Group)";
  contact
    "WG Web:   <https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/opsawg/>
     WG List:  <mailto:opsawg@ietf.org>

     Editor: Bo Wu
          <lana.wubo@huawei.com>
     Editor: Cheng Zhou
          <zhouchengyjy@chinamobile.com>
     Editor: Qin Wu
          <bill.wu@huawei.com>
     Editor: Mohamed Boucadair
          <mohamed.boucadair@orange.com>";
  description
    "This YANG module defines XXX.

     Copyright (c) 2023 IETF Trust and the persons identified
     as authors of the code. All rights reserved.

     Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with
     or without modification, is permitted pursuant to, and
     subject to the license terms contained in, the Revised
     BSD License set forth in Section 4.c of the IETF Trust's
     Legal Provisions Relating to IETF Documents
     (https://trustee.ietf.org/license-info).

     This version of this YANG module is part of RFC XXXX
     (https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfcXXXX); see the RFC
     itself for full legal notices.";

  revision 2023-02-10 {
    description
      "Initial revision.";
    reference
      "RFC XXXX: A Network Inventory Management Model for
       Enterprise Networks ";
  }

  identity software-component {
    description
      "Base identity for software components in a managed device.";
  }

  identity operating-system {
    base software-component;
    description
      "OS software type.";
  }

  identity operating-system-patch {
    base software-component;
    description
      "An operating system update - which should be a subcomponent
       of the `operating-system` running on a component. A patch is
       defined to be a set of software changes that are atomically
       installed (and uninstalled) together. ";
  }

  identity bios {
    base software-component;
    description
      "Legacy BIOS or UEFI firmware interface responsible for
       initializing hardware components and first stage boot
       loader.";
  }

  identity boot-loader {
    base software-component;
    description
      "Software layer responsible for loading and booting the
       device OS or network OS.";
  }

  identity software-module {
    base software-component;
    description
      "A base identity for software modules installed and/or
       running on the device.  Modules include user-space programs
       and kernel modules that provide specific functionality.
       A component with type SOFTWARE_MODULE should also have a
       module type that indicates the specific type of software
       module";
  }

  identity node-type {
    description
      "Base identity for node device type.";
  }

  identity switch {
    base node-type;
    description
      "Identity for switch device.";
  }

  identity router {
    base node-type;
    description
      "Identity for router device.";
  }

  identity firewall {
    base node-type;
    description
      "Identity for Firewall device.";
  }

  identity access-controller {
    base node-type;
    description
      "Identity for WIFI access controller device.";
  }

  identity access-point {
    base node-type;
    description
      "Identity for WIFI access point device.";
  }

  identity sdn-controller {
    base node-type;
    description
      "Identity for controller.";
  }

  identity server {
    base node-type;
    description
      "Identity for computing server device.";
  }

  identity vm {
    base node-type;
    description
      "Identity for VM node.";
  }

  identity camera {
    base node-type;
    description
      "Identity for camera device.";
  }

  identity printer {
    base node-type;
    description
      "Identity for camera device.";
  }

  identity cell-phone {
    base node-type;
    description
      "Identity for mobile phone.";
  }

  typedef oper-state {
    type enumeration {
      enum unknown {
        value 1;
        description
          "The resource is unable to report its operational
           state.";
      }
      enum disabled {
        value 2;
        description
          "The resource is totally inoperable.";
      }
      enum enabled {
        value 3;
        description
          "The resource is partially or fully operable.";
      }
      enum testing {
        value 4;
        description
          "The resource is currently being tested and cannot
           therefore report whether or not it is operational.";
      }
    }
    description
      "Represents the possible values of operational states.";
    reference
      "RFC 4268: Entity State MIB - EntityOperState";
  }

  /* Groupings */

  grouping component-info {
    description
      "Grouping for common component information.";
    leaf hardware-rev {
      type string;
      config false;
      description
        "The vendor-specific hardware revision string for the
         component.  The preferred value is the hardware revision
         identifier actually printed on the component itself (if
         present).";
      reference
        "RFC 6933: Entity MIB (Version 4) -
                   entPhysicalHardwareRev";
    }
    leaf firmware-rev {
      type string;
      config false;
      description
        "The vendor-specific firmware revision string for the
         component.";
      reference
        "RFC 6933: Entity MIB (Version 4) -
                   entPhysicalFirmwareRev";
    }
    leaf software-rev {
      type string;
      config false;
      description
        "The vendor-specific software revision string for the
         component.";
      reference
        "RFC 6933: Entity MIB (Version 4) -
                   entPhysicalSoftwareRev";
    }
    leaf serial-num {
      type string;
      config false;
      description
        "The vendor-specific serial number string for the
         component.  The preferred value is the serial number
         string actually printed on the component itself (if
         present).";
      reference
        "RFC 6933: Entity MIB (Version 4) - entPhysicalSerialNum";
    }
    leaf mfg-name {
      type string;
      config false;
      description
        "The name of the manufacturer of this physical component.
         The preferred value is the manufacturer name string
         actually printed on the component itself (if present).

         Note that comparisons between instances of the
         'model-name', 'firmware-rev', 'software-rev', and
         'serial-num' nodes are only meaningful amongst
         components with the same value of 'mfg-name'.

         If the manufacturer name string associated with the
         physical component is unknown to the server, then this
         node is not instantiated.";
      reference
        "RFC 6933: Entity MIB (Version 4) - entPhysicalMfgName";
    }
    leaf model-name {
      type string;
      config false;
      description
        "The vendor-specific model name identifier string
         associated with this physical component.  The preferred
         value is the customer-visible part number, which may be
         printed on the component itself.
         If the model name string associated with the physical
         component is unknown to the server, then this node is not
         instantiated.";
      reference
        "RFC 6933: Entity MIB (Version 4) - entPhysicalModelName";
    }
    leaf alias {
      type string;
      config false;
      description
        "An 'alias' name for the component, as specified by a
         network manager, that provides a non-volatile 'handle' for
         the component.

         If no configured value exists, the server MAY set the
         value of this node to a locally unique value in the
         operational state.

         A server implementation MAY map this leaf to the
         entPhysicalAlias MIB object.  Such an implementation needs
         to use some mechanism to handle the differences in size
         and characters allowed between this leaf and
         entPhysicalAlias.  The definition of such a mechanism is
         outside the scope of this document.";
      reference
        "RFC 6933: Entity MIB (Version 4) - entPhysicalAlias";
    }
    leaf asset-id {
      type string;
      config false;
      description
        "This node is a user-assigned asset tracking identifier for
         the component.

         A server implementation MAY map this leaf to the
         entPhysicalAssetID MIB object.  Such an implementation
         needs to use some mechanism to handle the differences in
         size and characters allowed between this leaf and
         entPhysicalAssetID.  The definition of such a mechanism is
         outside the scope of this document.";
      reference
        "RFC 6933: Entity MIB (Version 4) - entPhysicalAssetID";
    }
    leaf mfg-date {
      type yang:date-and-time;
      config false;
      description
        "The date of manufacturing of the managed component.";
      reference
        "RFC 6933: Entity MIB (Version 4) - entPhysicalMfgDate";
    }
    leaf-list uri {
      type inet:uri;
      config false;
      description
        "This node contains identification information about the
         component.";
      reference
        "RFC 6933: Entity MIB (Version 4) - entPhysicalUris";
    }
    leaf uuid {
      type yang:uuid;
      config false;
      description
        "A Universally Unique Identifier of the component.";
      reference
        "RFC 6933: Entity MIB (Version 4) - entPhysicalUUID";
    }
    leaf oper-state {
      type oper-state;
      config false;
      description
        "The operational state for this component.
         Note that this node does not follow the administrative
         state.  An administrative state of 'down' does not
         predict an operational state of 'disabled'.
         Note that some implementations may not be able to
         accurately report oper-state while the admin-state node
         has a value other than 'unlocked'.  In these cases, this
         node MUST have a value of 'unknown'.";
      reference
        "RFC 4268: Entity State MIB - entStateOper";
    }
  }

  grouping components {
    description
      "Grouping for software and hardware components.";
    container components {
      description
        "The components within the device.";
      list component {
        key "name";
        description
          "The list of software instances contained within the
           device.";
        leaf name {
          type string;
          description
            "The name of the component.";
        }
        leaf class {
          type union {
            type identityref {
              base ianahw:hardware-class;
            }
            type identityref {
              base software-component;
            }
          }
          config false;
          description
            "Type of component as identified by the system";
        }
        leaf parent {
          type leafref {
            path "../../component/name";
          }
          config false;
          description
            "The name of the component that physically contains this
             component.

             If this leaf is not instantiated, it indicates that this
             component is not contained in any other component.

             In the event that a physical component is contained by
             more than one physical component (e.g., double-wide
             modules), this node contains the name of one of these
             components.  An implementation MUST use the same name
             every time this node is instantiated.";
          reference
            "RFC 6933: Entity MIB (Version 4) -
                       entPhysicalContainedIn";
        }
        leaf parent-rel-pos {
          type int32 {
            range "0 .. 2147483647";
          }
          config false;
          description
            "An indication of the relative position of this child
             component among all its sibling components.  Sibling
             components are defined as components that:

               o share the same value of the 'parent' node and

               o share a common base identity for the 'class' node.";
          reference
            "RFC 6933: Entity MIB (Version 4) -
                       entPhysicalParentRelPos";
        }
        leaf is-fru {
          type boolean;
          config false;
          description
            "This node indicates whether or not this component is
             considered a 'field-replaceable unit' by the vendor.
             If this node contains the value 'true', then this
             component identifies a field-replaceable unit.";
          reference
            "RFC 6933: Entity MIB (Version 4) - entPhysicalIsFRU";
        }
        uses component-info;
        leaf usage-state {
          type hw:usage-state;
          config false;
          description
            "The usage state for this component.

             This node refers to a component's ability to service
             more components in a containment hierarchy.

             Some components will exhibit only a subset of the usage
             state values.  Components that are unable to ever
             service any components within a containment hierarchy
             will always have a usage state of 'busy'.  In some
             cases, a component will be able to support only one
             other component within its containment hierarchy and
             will therefore only exhibit values of 'idle' and
             'busy'.";
          reference
            "RFC 4268: Entity State MIB - entStateUsage";
        }
        leaf alarm-state {
          type hw:alarm-state;
          config false;
          description
            "The alarm state for this component.  It does not
             include the alarms raised on child components within
             its containment hierarchy.";
          reference
            "RFC 4268: Entity State MIB - entStateAlarm";
        }
        leaf standby-state {
          type hw:standby-state;
          config false;
          description
            "The standby state for this component.

             Some components will exhibit only a subset of the
             remaining standby state values.  If this component
             cannot operate in a standby role, the value of this
             node will always be 'providing-service'.";
          reference
            "RFC 4268: Entity State MIB - entStateStandby";
        }
      }
    }
  }

  grouping inventory-network-type {
    description
      "Indicates the topology type to be inventory.";
    container network-inventory {
      presence "Indicates Network Inventory.";
      description
        "The presence of the container node indicates
         Network Inventory.";
    }
  }

  grouping inventory-node-attributes {
    description
      "Augment used to define attach the node configuration";
    leaf name {
      type string;
      description
        "The name of the node.";
    }
    leaf node-type {
      type identityref {
        base node-type;
      }
      config false;
      description
        "Node type.";
    }
    leaf is-virtual {
      type boolean;
      default "false";
      config false;
      description
        "Set to true if the node is virtual.
         Set to false if the node is physical.";
    }
    leaf is-gateway {
      type boolean;
      default "false";
      config false;
      description
        "Set to true if the node is a gateway.
         Set to false if the node is not a gateway.";
    }
    leaf gateway-ref {
      type leafref {
        path "../name";
      }
      config false;
      description
        "gateway for endpoint device.";
    }
    leaf management-ipv4-address {
      type inet:host;
      description
        "The IP address or DNS domain name of the device.";
    }
    leaf management-ipv6-address {
      type inet:host;
      description
        "The IP address or DNS domain name of the device.";
    }
    leaf mac-address {
      type yang:mac-address;
      config false;
      description
        "The MAC address of the device.";
    }
    leaf mud-url {
      type inet:uri;
      config false;
      description
        "This is the MUD URL associated with the MUD device found
         in a MUD file.";
    }
    leaf transparency-info {
      type inet:uri;
      config false;
      description
        "Link to software bill of material,
         see draft-ietf-opsawg-sbom-access";
    }
    leaf site {
      type string;
      description
        "The site of the node.";
    }
    uses component-info;
    uses components;
    uses geo:geo-location;
  }

  grouping inventory-termination-point-attributes {
    description
      "Augment used to define attach the termination point
       attributes.";
    leaf tp-name {
      type string;
      config false;
      description
        "The name of the interface.";
    }
    leaf tp-description {
      type string;
      config false;
      description
        "A textual description of the interface.";
    }
    leaf tp-type {
      type string;
      config false;
      description
        "The type of the interface.";
    }
    leaf oper-state {
      type oper-state;
      config false;
      description
        "The operational state for this interface.";
    }
  }

  grouping inventory-link-attributes {
    description
      "Augment used to define attach the termination point
       attributes.";
    leaf link-name {
      type string;
      config false;
      description
        "The name of the link.";
    }
    leaf link-description {
      type string;
      config false;
      description
        "A textual description of the interface.";
    }
    leaf link-type {
      type string;
      config false;
      description
        "The type of the interface.";
    }
    leaf oper-state {
      type oper-state;
      config false;
      description
        "The operational state for this link.";
    }
  }

  /* Main blocks */

  augment "/nw:networks/nw:network/nw:network-types" {
    description
      "Introduces new network type for network inventory.";
    uses inventory-network-type;
  }

  augment "/nw:networks/nw:network/nw:node" {
    when '/nw:networks/nw:network/nw:network-types/
     nw-inv:network-inventory' {
      description
        "Augmentation parameters apply only for network inventory.";
    }
    description
      "Configuration parameters for inventory at the node
       level.";
    uses inventory-node-attributes;
  }

  augment "/nw:networks/nw:network/nt:link" {
    when '/nw:networks/nw:network/nw:network-types/
     nw-inv:network-inventory' {
      description
        "Augmentation parameters apply only for network
         inventory.";
    }
    description
      "Augments inventory topology link information.";
    uses inventory-link-attributes;
  }

  augment
    "/nw:networks/nw:network/nw:node/nt:termination-point" {
      when '/nw:networks/nw:network/nw:network-types/
      nw-inv:network-inventory' {
        description
          "Augmentation parameters apply only for network
           inventory.";
      }
      description
        "Augments inventory termination point information.";
      uses inventory-termination-point-attributes;
  }
}



<CODE ENDS>

6. Security Considerations

The YANG module specified in this document defines a data schema designed to be accessed through network management protocols such as NETCONF [RFC6241] or RESTCONF [RFC8040]. The lowest NETCONF layer is the secure transport layer, and the required secure transport is Secure Shell (SSH) [RFC6242]. The lowest RESTCONF layer is HTTPS, and the required secure transport is TLS [RFC8446].

The Network Configuration Access Control Model (NACM) [RFC8341] provides a means of restricting access to specific NETCONF or RESTCONF users to a preconfigured subset of all available NETCONF or RESTCONF protocol operations and contents. Thus, NACM SHOULD be used to restrict the NSF registration from unauthorized users.

There are a number of data nodes defined in this YANG module that are writable, creatable, and deletable (i.e., config true, which is the default). These data nodes may be considered sensitive or vulnerable in some network environments. Write operations to these data nodes could have a negative effect on network and security operations.

Some of the readable data nodes in this YANG module may be considered sensitive or vulnerable in some network environments. It is thus important to control read access (e.g., via get, get-config, or notification) to these data nodes. These are the subtrees and data nodes and their sensitivity/vulnerability:

<<<to be completed>>>

7. Privacy Considerations

The model includes sensitive PII data. More to be discussed:

  • Data related to BYOD devices

8. IANA Considerations

This document registers a URI in the "IETF XML Registry" [RFC3688]. Following the format in [RFC3688], the following registration has been made.

     URI: urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:yang:ietf-network-inventory

     Registrant Contact: The IESG.

     XML: N/A, the requested URI is an XML namespace.

This document registers a YANG module in the "YANG Module Names" registry[RFC7950] .

     name:         ietf-network-inventory
     namespace:    urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:yang:ietf-network-inventory
     prefix:       nw-inv
     maintained by IANA: N
     reference:    RFC xxxx

9. Acknowledgements

TBD

10. References

10.1. Normative References

[RFC2119]
Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, DOI 10.17487/RFC2119, , <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc2119>.
[RFC3688]
Mealling, M., "The IETF XML Registry", BCP 81, RFC 3688, DOI 10.17487/RFC3688, , <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc3688>.
[RFC6241]
Enns, R., Ed., Bjorklund, M., Ed., Schoenwaelder, J., Ed., and A. Bierman, Ed., "Network Configuration Protocol (NETCONF)", RFC 6241, DOI 10.17487/RFC6241, , <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6241>.
[RFC6242]
Wasserman, M., "Using the NETCONF Protocol over Secure Shell (SSH)", RFC 6242, DOI 10.17487/RFC6242, , <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6242>.
[RFC6991]
Schoenwaelder, J., Ed., "Common YANG Data Types", RFC 6991, DOI 10.17487/RFC6991, , <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6991>.
[RFC7950]
Bjorklund, M., Ed., "The YANG 1.1 Data Modeling Language", RFC 7950, DOI 10.17487/RFC7950, , <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7950>.
[RFC8040]
Bierman, A., Bjorklund, M., and K. Watsen, "RESTCONF Protocol", RFC 8040, DOI 10.17487/RFC8040, , <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8040>.
[RFC8174]
Leiba, B., "Ambiguity of Uppercase vs Lowercase in RFC 2119 Key Words", BCP 14, RFC 8174, DOI 10.17487/RFC8174, , <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8174>.
[RFC8341]
Bierman, A. and M. Bjorklund, "Network Configuration Access Control Model", STD 91, RFC 8341, DOI 10.17487/RFC8341, , <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8341>.
[RFC8345]
Clemm, A., Medved, J., Varga, R., Bahadur, N., Ananthakrishnan, H., and X. Liu, "A YANG Data Model for Network Topologies", RFC 8345, DOI 10.17487/RFC8345, , <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8345>.
[RFC8348]
Bierman, A., Bjorklund, M., Dong, J., and D. Romascanu, "A YANG Data Model for Hardware Management", RFC 8348, DOI 10.17487/RFC8348, , <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8348>.
[RFC8446]
Rescorla, E., "The Transport Layer Security (TLS) Protocol Version 1.3", RFC 8446, DOI 10.17487/RFC8446, , <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8446>.
[RFC9179]
Hopps, C., "A YANG Grouping for Geographic Locations", RFC 9179, DOI 10.17487/RFC9179, , <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc9179>.

10.2. Informative References

[I-D.ietf-opsawg-sap]
Boucadair, M., de Dios, O. G., Barguil, S., Wu, Q., and V. Lopez, "A YANG Network Model for Service Attachment Points (SAPs)", Work in Progress, Internet-Draft, draft-ietf-opsawg-sap-15, , <https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-ietf-opsawg-sap-15.txt>.
[I-D.irtf-nmrg-network-digital-twin-arch]
Zhou, C., Yang, H., Duan, X., Lopez, D., Pastor, A., Wu, Q., Boucadair, M., and C. Jacquenet, "Digital Twin Network: Concepts and Reference Architecture", Work in Progress, Internet-Draft, draft-irtf-nmrg-network-digital-twin-arch-02, , <https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-irtf-nmrg-network-digital-twin-arch-02.txt>.
[RFC8340]
Bjorklund, M. and L. Berger, Ed., "YANG Tree Diagrams", BCP 215, RFC 8340, DOI 10.17487/RFC8340, , <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8340>.

Authors' Addresses

Bo Wu
Huawei
101 Software Avenue, Yuhua District
Nanjing
Jiangsu, 210012
China
Cheng Zhou
China Mobile
Beijing
100053
China
Qin Wu
Huawei
101 Software Avenue, Yuhua District
Nanjing
Jiangsu, 210012
China
Mohamed Boucadair
Orange
Rennes 35000
France