1 marek 1.1 // Copyright (c) 2005 DMTF.  All rights reserved.
 2           // <change cr="ArchCR00066.004" type="add">Add UmlPackagePath
 3           // qualifier values to CIM Schema.</change>
 4           // ==================================================================
 5           //  CIM_Confederation 
 6           // ==================================================================
 7              [Association, Aggregation, Composition, Version ( "2.7.0" ), 
 8               UMLPackagePath ( "CIM::Network::BGP" ), 
 9               Description ( 
10                  "The BGP speakers in an AS are required to be fully meshed. "
11                  "This can lead to a huge number of TCP connections per router. "
12                  "One way to reduce the peering requirements is to use a "
13                  "confederation. A confederation effectively partitions one AS "
14                  "into a group of \'sub-ASs\'. This enables all of the benefits "
15                  "of IBGP to be applied inside the confederation, while enabling "
16                  "EBGP to be run between each confederation. It also enables "
17                  "certain BGP attribute values to be preserved between "
18                  "confederations. However, to the outside world, the AS with its "
19                  "confederations appear to be a single AS." )]
20           class CIM_Confederation : CIM_SystemComponent {
21           
22 marek 1.1       [Aggregate, Override ( "GroupComponent" ), 
23                  Max ( 1 ), 
24                  Description ( 
25                     "The AutonomousSystem that contains the confederations." )]
26              CIM_AutonomousSystem REF GroupComponent;
27           
28                 [Override ( "PartComponent" ), 
29                  Description ( 
30                     "The Confederation within the AutonomousSystem." )]
31              CIM_AutonomousSystem REF PartComponent;
32           
33                 [Description ( 
34                     "A unique identifier of the AutonomousSystem that "
35                     "contains the confederations." )]
36              uint32 ParentASNumber;
37           
38                 [Description ( 
39                     "A unique identifier of the Confederation within the "
40                     "AutonomousSystem." )]
41              uint32 ChildASNumber;
42           
43 marek 1.1 
44           };