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Sites

Sites are an abstract construction to model information that is shared across all services deployed at one physical location. They only contain information relevant to the services that rely on it. As a result, external BSS and OSS systems are still in place for other accounting and bookkeeping purposes. However, these lie outside the scope of GAP.

Modelling and attributes

A Site object contains the following attributes:

Attribute name Attribute type Description
site_name str The name of the site, that will dictate part of the FQDN of routers that are hosted at this site.
For example: router.X.Y.geant.net, where X denotes the name of the site.
site_city str The city at which the site is located.
site_country str The country in which the site is located.
site_country_code str The code of the corresponding country. This is also used for the FQDN,
following the example for the site name, the country code goes in the Y position.
site_latitude LatitudeCoordinate The latitude of the site, used for SNMP.
site_longitude LongitudeCoordinate     The longitude of the site, again for SNMP.
site_internal_id int The internal ID used within GÉANT for a site.
site_bgp_community_id      int The BGP community ID of a site, used to advertise routes learned at this site.
site_tier SiteTier The tier of a site, which corresponds to installed equipment.
site_ts_address IPv4Address The address of the terminal server hosted at this site.
It is used for out of band access to any equipment hosted here.