Enlinkd

The enhanced link daemon collects topology information via SNMP to determine connections between nodes. The daemon essentially asks each device the following question: "What is the network topology, from your point of view?"

The enlinkd discovery process tries to discover bridge domain links using the data coming from all collected bridge forwarding tables.

The enlinkd updaters correlate all collected topology data and use it to generate a global topology map of your network.

How it works

Table 1. Enlinkd configuration file overview
File	Description	Reload Event	Restart Required
enlinkd-configuration.xml	Configures generic behavior of enlinkd.	Yes	No

Table 2. Enlinkd log file overview
File	Description
enlinkd.log	Logs relating to enlinkd server events.

Configuration

If multiple link discovery protocols are enabled, links will be discovered for each enabled protocol. The topology map visualizes links for each discovery protocol. For example, if you start both the CDP and LLDP discovery protocols, the web UI visualizes a CDP link and an LLDP link.

Restart enlinkd or Meridian to apply configuration changes.

Table 3. enlinkd-configuration.xml parameters
Attribute	Description	Default
Integer
threads	Number of parallel threads for enlinkd collector, updater, and discovery tasks.	5
initial_sleep_time	Amount of time (in milliseconds) to wait before starting collectors after Meridian is launched.	60000
rescan_interval	Rescan interval (in milliseconds) for collectors.	86400000
topology_interval	Interval (in milliseconds) for the updaters.	30000
bridge_topology_interval	Interval (in milliseconds) for the discovery process.	300000
max_bft	Maximum number of bridge forwarding tables (BFTs) that can be stored in memory for discovery.	100
discovery-bridge-threads	Number of threads used for discovery.	1
Boolean
use-cdp-discovery	Enable or disable CDP discovery protocol.	true
use-bridge-discovery	Enable or disable bridge discovery protocol.	true
use-lldp-discovery	Enable or disable LLDP discovery protocol.	true
use-ospf-discovery	Enable or disable OSPF discovery protocol.	true
use-isis-discovery	Enable or disable IS-IS discovery protocol.	true

The first run of the bridge discovery process is scheduled for initial_sleep_time + bridge_topology_interval. The first run of the updaters is scheduled for 0L.