rate of once every 30 seconds.
</p>
</column>
-
- <column name="other_config" key="lacp-heartbeat"
- type='{"type": "boolean"}'>
- Treat LACP like a simple heartbeat protocol for link state
- monitoring. Most features of the LACP protocol are disabled
- when this mode is in use. The default if not specified is
- <code>false</code>.
- </column>
</group>
<group title="SLB Configuration">
<column name="other_config" key="cfm_interval"
type='{"type": "integer"}'>
- The interval, in milliseconds, between transmissions of CFM heartbeats.
- Three missed heartbeat receptions indicate a connectivity fault.
- Defaults to 1000.
+ <p>
+ The interval, in milliseconds, between transmissions of CFM
+ heartbeats. Three missed heartbeat receptions indicate a
+ connectivity fault.
+ </p>
+
+ <p>
+ In standard operation only intervals of 3, 10, 100, 1,000, 10,000,
+ 60,000, or 600,000 ms are supported. Other values will be rounded
+ down to the nearest value on the list. Extended mode (see <ref
+ column="other_config" key="cfm_extended"/>) supports any interval up
+ to 65,535 ms. In either mode, the default is 1000 ms.
+ </p>
+
+ <p>We do not recommend using intervals less than 100 ms.</p>
</column>
<column name="other_config" key="cfm_extended"
commonly be the same as <ref column="external_ids" key="xs-vif-uuid"/>.
</column>
+ <column name="external_ids" key="iface-status"
+ type='{"type": "string",
+ "enum": ["set", ["active", "inactive"]]}'>
+ <p>
+ Hypervisors may sometimes have more than one interface associated
+ with a given <ref column="external_ids" key="iface-id"/>, only one of
+ which is actually in use at a given time. For example, in some
+ circumstances XenServer has both a ``tap'' and a ``vif'' interface
+ for a single <ref column="external_ids" key="iface-id"/>, but only
+ uses one of them at a time. A hypervisor that behaves this way must
+ mark the currently in use interface <code>active</code> and the
+ others <code>inactive</code>. A hypervisor that never has more than
+ one interface for a given <ref column="external_ids" key="iface-id"/>
+ may mark that interface <code>active</code> or omit <ref
+ column="external_ids" key="iface-status"/> entirely.
+ </p>
+
+ <p>
+ During VM migration, a given <ref column="external_ids"
+ key="iface-id"/> might transiently be marked <code>active</code> on
+ two different hypervisors. That is, <code>active</code> means that
+ this <ref column="external_ids" key="iface-id"/> is the active
+ instance within a single hypervisor, not in a broader scope.
+ </p>
+ </column>
+
<column name="external_ids" key="xs-vif-uuid">
The virtual interface associated with this interface.
</column>