SDKLT

Logical Table Software Development Kit (SDKLT) is a new, powerful, and feature rich Software Development Kit (SDK) for Broadcom switches. SDKLT provides a new approach to switch configuration using Logical Tables.

Building the Demo App describes how to get started using a simulated Tomahawk device. Included, is a CLI that can be used to explore tables. For example, the following CLI output shows the attributes of the sFlow packet sampling table:

BCMLT.0> lt list -d MIRROR_PORT_ENCAP_SFLOW
MIRROR_PORT_ENCAP_SFLOW
  Description: The MIRROR_PORT_ENCAP_SFLOW logical table is used to specify
               per-port sFlow encapsulation sample configuration.
  11 fields (1 key-type field):
    SAMPLE_ING_FLEX_RATE
        Description: Sample ingress flex sFlow packet if the generated sFlow random
                     number is greater than the threshold. A lower threshold leads to
                     higher sampling frequency.
    SAMPLE_EGR_RATE
        Description: Sample egress sFlow packet if the generated sFlow random number is
                     greater than the threshold. A lower threshold leads to
                     higher sampling frequency.
    SAMPLE_ING_RATE
        Description: Sample ingress sFlow packet if the generated sFlow random number is
                     greater than the threshold. A lower threshold leads to
                     higher sampling frequency.
    SAMPLE_ING_FLEX_MIRROR_INSTANCE
        Description: Enable to copy ingress flex sFlow packet samples to the ingress
                     mirror member using the sFlow mirror instance configuration.
    SAMPLE_ING_FLEX_CPU
        Description: Enable to copy ingress flex sFlow packet samples to CPU.
    SAMPLE_ING_MIRROR_INSTANCE
        Description: Enable to copy ingress sFlow packet samples to the ingress
                     mirror member using the sFlow mirror instance configuration.
    SAMPLE_ING_CPU
        Description: Enable to copy ingress sFlow packet samples to CPU.
    SAMPLE_ING_FLEX
        Description: Enable to sample ingress port-based flex sFlow packets.
    SAMPLE_EGR
        Description: Enable to sample egress port-based sFlow packets.
    SAMPLE_ING
        Description: Enable to sample ingress port-based sFlow packets.
    PORT_ID
        Description: Logical port ID.

SDKLT is a part of the OpenNSL suite, which makes it possible for the development of open network operating system projects, including: Open Network Linux, OpenSwitch, and SONiC.

The network operating system bridges the gap between applications (BGP, SNMP, sFlow, etc.) and the low level hardware capabilities accessed through the SDK. For example, OpenSwitch describes how the open source Host sFlow agent uses Control Plane Services (CPS) and Open Compute Project (OCP) Switch Abstraction Interface (SAI) to configure hardware packet sampling via vendor specific SDKs (such as OpenNSL).