Add length limit for user-defined values

Previously, the only limit for most user-defined values like id or name
was the one enforced by dbus, which was fairly big. In order to save
space used by persistent data, new meson options were added, with length
limit for those fields.

This directly impacts following dbus interfaces:
- TriggerManager.AddTrigger:
  - Id
  - Name
  - Reports
  - Thresholds (only name of discrete threshold)
- Trigger.Name
- Trigger.Reports
- Trigger.Thresholds (only name of discrete threshold)
- ReportManager.AddReport(FutureVersion):
  - Id
  - Name
  - MetricParameters (metricId)
- Report.Name
- Report.ReadingParameters (metricId)

For Id fields we support 'prefixes', which also are limited, but those
limit are separate. So if limit for prefix is set to 5 and limit for
id/name is set to 5, following Ids are fine:
- 12345/12345
- 12345
and following are not:
- 123456/1234
- 1/123456

Testing done:
- UTs are passing.
- new limits are reflected when calling mentioned dbus interfaces.

Signed-off-by: Szymon Dompke <szymon.dompke@intel.com>
Change-Id: I29291a1cc56a344d92fb65491c9186fdb90a8529
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tree: 2b9ee6ed5fa0d3845d2b49f4748cd2afcb12395a
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  2. scripts/
  3. src/
  4. subprojects/
  5. tests/
  6. .clang-format
  7. .gitignore
  8. LICENSE
  9. MAINTAINERS
  10. meson.build
  11. meson_options.txt
  12. OWNERS
  13. README.md
  14. xyz.openbmc_project.Telemetry.service.in
README.md

Telemetry

This component implements middleware for sensors and metrics aggregation.

Capabilities

This application is implementation of Telemetry proposed in OpenBMC design docs [1].

It's responsible for:

  • on-demand creation of metric reports,
    • aggregated sets of sensor values available in system [2],
  • access to metric report in both pull and push model (triggers),
  • run-time monitoring of sensor[3] updates.

Use-cases

  • generic and centralized way to observe telemetry data inside system
  • back-end for Redfish TelemetryService[4]

How to build

There are two way to build telemetry service:

  • using bitbake in yocto environment
  • using meson as native build

To build it using bitbake follow the guide from OpenBMC docs[5]. To build it using meson follow the quick guide to install meson[6] and then run below commands

meson build
cd build
ninja

After successful build you should be able to run telemetry binary or start unit tests

./tests/telemetry-ut
./telemetry

In case if system is missing boost dependency, it is possible to build it locally and set BOOST_ROOT environment variable to location of built files for meson. After this change meson should be able to detect boost dependency. See [7] for more details.

Notes

More information can be found in OpenBMC docs repository [8].

References

  1. OpenBMC platform telemetry design
  2. Sensor support for OpenBMC
  3. dbus-sensors
  4. Redfish TelemetryService
  5. Yocto-development
  6. Meson-Quick-Guide
  7. Meson-Boost-dependency
  8. OpenBMC-docs-repository