Specify an Exchange/Connection object with Email

[mngan]

Peering Manager version

1.7.4

Feature type

New functionality

Proposed functionality

Allow a config context to be associated with the Email template.

Example template:

{% set our_as = affiliated_autonomous_systems | get(asn=32590) %}
{% set ixp = autonomous_system.get_internet_exchange_points(our_as) | get(slug="equinix-hong-kong") %}
{% set connection = ixp | connections | get(router__name="bg1-hkg2") %}
Hi {{autonomous_system.name}} (AS{{autonomous_system.asn}})

AS{{our_as.asn}} ({{our_as.name}}) has added a new connection to {{ ixp.name }}. We have existing BGP sessions with you on {{ ixp.name }}, so we are requesting you to set up additional sessions with this new connection to help with load balancing and resiliency. Our new peering IP's are below. 

AS{{our_as.asn}}
{{ connection.ipv4_address.ip }}
{{ connection.ipv6_address.ip }}

The sessions are already configured on our side. So they should come up when you configure them. If you had MD5 keys configured on the existing sessions, the same keys should also be set on the new sessions. 

Regards

Valve Peering Team

Right now, I have to hard code a number of things into the template, using a config context will allow this to be reused without touching the template. If the IXP and Connections objects could be retrieved more directly, that would also be a bonus because putting all the Jinja code into the subject line as well is a bit of a pain.

e.g

{% set our_as = affiliated_autonomous_systems | get(asn=32590) -%}{% set ixp = autonomous_system.get_internet_exchange_points(our_as) | get(slug="equinix-hong-kong") -%}New AS{{our_as.asn}} <=> AS{{autonomous_system.asn}} Sessions at {{ ixp.name }}

Use case

We find that we want to announce to existing peers of an IX about a new connection to the IX. There doesn't seem to be a good way to template this tidily. The parameters end up being hardcoded into the template. Also, it would be nice to be able to retrieve some of these stand alone objects in the templates without having to dive through the AutonomousSystem object to get it, but that is really a separate issue, and could be just the addition of more filters?

Database changes

None

External dependencies

None