Since creating this project I have become aware of a standard which appears to meet the need. Please see DTMF Redfish#
The TM Forum are considering 'Model-driven Onboarding of Phyisically Oriented Resources', see http://projects.tmforum.org/wiki/display/ODA/Model-driven+Onboarding+of+Phyisically+Oriented+Resources
This repo contains a proposed extension of RFC 8348 to hold information on possible physical containment stuctures of a given device, for example what cards are allowed in a given slot of a chassis.
The project name comes from Wayang a form of puppet theatre art found in Indonsia (Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia 17 Feb 2018) and is used for its association with YANG and giving designers closer control.
"With WAYANG you pull the strings"
For commentary on the various modules see the pages listed below:
DIMENSION.md (work in progress)
as well as
Future modules could cover areas such as
- air flow management
- cable management
- hardware/software compatibilities
- performance limitations imposed by component incompatibilities
- hardware cross dependancies