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This implements the BGP uplink health checks that didn't get ported over when I did the initial NVUE REST client work for DPF. This breaks down like so:

  • Add new NvueClient methods to fetch per-VRF BGP data (using the OpenAPI spec to generate the types).
  • Add health::nvue::check_bgp_uplink_sessions to implement health checks from the above BGP data.
  • Rework the NVUE REST health checks to call this after checking whether the REST API is up.

Related issues

  • Internal NVBugs ID 6563638

Type of Change

  • Add - New feature or capability
  • Change - Changes in existing functionality
  • Fix - Bug fixes
  • Remove - Removed features or deprecated functionality
  • Internal - Internal changes (refactoring, tests, docs, etc.)

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  • This PR contains breaking changes

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  • Unit tests added/updated
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  • Manual testing performed
  • No testing required (docs, internal refactor, etc.)

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  • New Features

    • Added NVUE health checks for API availability and BGP ToR uplink sessions.
    • Health reports now identify missing or inactive uplinks and invalid health thresholds with targeted critical alerts.
    • Added support for retrieving and filtering BGP VRF information.
    • Added comprehensive BGP peer and session state handling for more detailed health reporting.
  • Improvements

    • NVUE requests now use a 60-second timeout to improve reliability.

Walkthrough

The change adds typed NVUE BGP models, filtered BGP VRF retrieval, and a 60-second request timeout. The agent replaces the obsolete NVUE health function with NvueHealthCheck, which validates API access and configured BGP ToR uplinks.

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NVUE BGP client contracts

Layer / File(s) Summary
BGP response models and state handling
crates/nvue-client/src/types/bgp.rs, crates/nvue-client/src/types/mod.rs
The client now deserializes BGP VRFs, peers, address families, dynamic neighbors, special JSON fields, optional values, and typed peer states.
Filtered BGP retrieval
crates/nvue-client/src/client.rs, crates/nvue-client/src/lib.rs, crates/nvue-client/Cargo.toml
FieldFilter builds repeated include and omit query pairs. NvueClient retrieves URL-encoded BGP VRF data and exposes the new type. Requests use a 60-second timeout. Tests cover filter construction and ordering.

NVUE health-check evaluation

Layer / File(s) Summary
API and uplink health evaluation
crates/agent/src/health/nvue.rs
NvueHealthCheck verifies system_info, retrieves default-VRF BGP neighbors, evaluates configured HBN uplinks, and emits critical alerts for invalid or unhealthy sessions.
Health-check validation
crates/agent/src/health/nvue.rs
Table-driven tests cover missing peers, missing state fields, non-established states, extra neighbors, healthy-link thresholds, and impossible configurations.

Agent health integration

Layer / File(s) Summary
Main-loop health integration
crates/agent/src/health.rs, crates/agent/src/main_loop.rs
The crate exposes the NVUE health module, removes nvue_api_health, and invokes NvueHealthCheck with the NVUE client, link threshold, and HBN device names.

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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to f28c6

The PR adds NVUE BGP uplink health checks; the remaining risk is that the documented health threshold is overstated and target-less configuration alerts are not described, which could cause operators to misinterpret reported health until the documentation is corrected.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant MainLoop
  participant NvueHealthCheck
  participant NvueClient
  participant HealthReport
  MainLoop->>NvueHealthCheck: health_check()
  NvueHealthCheck->>NvueClient: system_info()
  NvueClient-->>NvueHealthCheck: API result
  NvueHealthCheck->>NvueClient: get_bgp_vrf_info_filtered(default VRF)
  NvueClient-->>NvueHealthCheck: BgpVrfInfo
  NvueHealthCheck->>HealthReport: add health alerts
  HealthReport-->>MainLoop: health report
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crates/nvue-client/Cargo.toml (1)

39-39: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Consider reusing the existing url dependency instead of adding urlencoding.

The crate already depends on url (Url appears in RequestFailed). Url::path_segments_mut encodes path segments correctly and removes the need for a second encoding crate. The current form works, so treat this as an optional dependency-surface reduction.

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In `@crates/nvue-client/Cargo.toml` at line 39, In the request URL construction
flow using urlencoding, reuse the existing url dependency and
Url::path_segments_mut to encode path segments instead. Remove the urlencoding
dependency from the crate manifest while preserving the current URL encoding
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In `@crates/nvue-client/src/client.rs`:
- Around line 213-234: Add an explicit request-level timeout to the HTTP request
created in get_bgp_vrf_info_filtered, using a named duration constant consistent
with APPLY_CONFIG_REVISION_TIMEOUT. Apply the deadline before execute so both
connection and response waits are bounded, while preserving the existing
filtering and response parsing behavior.

In `@crates/nvue-client/src/types/bgp.rs`:
- Around line 150-161: Implement Display and FromStr for BgpPeerState, mapping
every enum variant to its stable lowercase wire/text representation and parsing
those representations back into the corresponding variant; return an appropriate
parse error for unknown values. Update the downstream health-check formatting to
use Display rather than Debug so operator-facing alerts remain stable.

In `@docs/architecture/health/health_probe_ids.md`:
- Around line 83-90: Update the BGP health-check contract in
docs/architecture/health/health_probe_ids.md lines 83-90 and
docs/operations/monitoring-health.md lines 369-378 to state that the check
succeeds when at least min_healthy_links required uplinks are healthy, not only
when every uplink is Established; in both locations, include invalid
minimum-uplink configuration as a cause of target-less alerts.

Apply the same fix in `@crates/agent/src/health/nvue.rs` around lines 128 - 144:
Confirm the documented behavior for combined configuration and per-uplink
alerts.

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In `@crates/nvue-client/Cargo.toml`:
- Line 39: In the request URL construction flow using urlencoding, reuse the
existing url dependency and Url::path_segments_mut to encode path segments
instead. Remove the urlencoding dependency from the crate manifest while
preserving the current URL encoding behavior.
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Comment thread crates/nvue-client/src/client.rs
Comment on lines +150 to +161
#[derive(Clone, Debug, Deserialize, PartialEq, Eq)]
#[serde(rename_all = "lowercase")]
pub enum BgpPeerState {
Idle,
Connect,
Active,
OpenSent,
OpenConfirm,
Established,
Clearing,
Deleted,
}

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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Implement Display and FromStr for BgpPeerState.

The coding guidelines require both traits for a value with a known, finite set of possibilities. The current enum provides neither. The downstream health check in crates/agent/src/health/nvue.rs (Line 199) therefore formats the state with {state:?}, which places a Debug representation into an operator-facing alert message. A Display implementation removes that workaround and keeps the alert text stable.

As per coding guidelines: "When a value has a known, finite set of possibilities, model it with an enum (or a struct of enums) and implement traits Display and FromStr — do not pass it around as a bare String or &str literal."

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In `@crates/nvue-client/src/types/bgp.rs` around lines 150 - 161, Implement
Display and FromStr for BgpPeerState, mapping every enum variant to its stable
lowercase wire/text representation and parsing those representations back into
the corresponding variant; return an appropriate parse error for unknown values.
Update the downstream health-check formatting to use Display rather than Debug
so operator-facing alerts remain stable.

Source: Coding guidelines

Comment on lines +83 to +90
Indicates a BGP health-check failure for configured DPU uplinks, which typically
connect to top-of-rack switches.

The health check expects each required uplink session to appear in NVUE BGP
neighbor data with state `Established`. When the alert has no target, the DPU
agent could not fetch or parse the NVUE BGP data needed for the uplink check.
When the alert has a target, the target names the specific uplink whose neighbor
entry is missing or not `Established`.

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Document and confirm the complete min_healthy_links contract.

The implementation treats min_healthy_links as a threshold and emits a target-less configuration alert when it exceeds the uplink count. Update the architecture and operator documentation to state the threshold semantics and include invalid minimum-uplink configuration among target-less alert causes. Also confirm and document whether emitting both the configuration alert and per-uplink alerts when links are down is intentional, so alert consumers receive the expected contract.

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  • docs/architecture/health/health_probe_ids.md#L83-L90 (this comment)
  • crates/agent/src/health/nvue.rs#L128-L144
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In `@docs/architecture/health/health_probe_ids.md` around lines 83 - 90, Update
the BGP health-check contract in docs/architecture/health/health_probe_ids.md
lines 83-90 and docs/operations/monitoring-health.md lines 369-378 to state that
the check succeeds when at least min_healthy_links required uplinks are healthy,
not only when every uplink is Established; in both locations, include invalid
minimum-uplink configuration as a cause of target-less alerts.

Apply the same fix in `@crates/agent/src/health/nvue.rs` around lines 128 - 144:
Confirm the documented behavior for combined configuration and per-uplink
alerts.

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Just for transparency, I stripped out the docs commit from this so it doesn't block the main review. I'll add it to a separate PR.

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/// Checks whether the NVUE API can answer a basic system-information request.
async fn nvue_api_health(&self) -> Result<HealthProbeSuccess, HealthProbeAlert> {
match self.nvue_client.system_info().await {

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Are there any default timeout(s) here where we'll fail if we can't get system info after some amount of time? Doesn't need to be in this PR -- can definitely be a follow-up -- but might be something we'd want to do. Not sure how long it might end up hanging if we ran into that situation.

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There aren't, but I don't think it would be difficult to add a timeout to the code where we build the request. It's just a single line of code if we punt making it configurable into a TODO.

Comment thread crates/agent/src/health/probe_ids.rs Outdated
pub static ref DpuDiskUtilizationCheck: HealthProbeId = "DpuDiskUtilizationCheck".parse().unwrap();
pub static ref DpuDiskUtilizationCritical: HealthProbeId = "DpuDiskUtilizationCritical".parse().unwrap();
pub static ref NvueApiRunning: HealthProbeId = "NvueApiRunning".parse().unwrap();
pub static ref NvueApi: HealthProbeId = "NvueApi".parse().unwrap();

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Why the rename? Just making sure this won't break any existing health reporting or anything if we change it!

Established,
Clearing,
Deleted,
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Lol, I was about to say the same thing CodeRabbit said here re: implementing Display and FromStr.

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I think Display is useful but I don't know what you'd want a FromStr for. I don't think we ever want to construct one from an arbitrary value; the possible values are a closed enum in the OpenAPI spec.

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The timeout-handling question and enhancing BgpPeerState aren't blockers -- renaming the health probe ID from NvueApiRunning -> NvueApi I'm not sure about, but if you're confident it's not a problem, lgtm (sans any relevant CodeRabbit feedback you also want to pull in).

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The timeout-handling question and enhancing BgpPeerState aren't blockers -- renaming the health probe ID from NvueApiRunning -> NvueApi I'm not sure about, but if you're confident it's not a problem, lgtm (sans any relevant CodeRabbit feedback you also want to pull in).

That rename doesn't need to be in there anymore; it's a residual of a piece of a commit that went away after I changed my mind about how to handle a bad response from the API when checking the BGP health stuff.

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This is a backport to v2.1 of #5075; the original text of that merge
follows:

This implements the BGP uplink health checks that didn't get ported over
when I did the initial NVUE REST client work for DPF. This breaks down
like so:
- Add new `NvueClient` methods to fetch per-VRF BGP data (using the
OpenAPI spec to generate the types).
- Add `health::nvue::check_bgp_uplink_sessions` to implement health
checks from the above BGP data.
- Rework the NVUE REST health checks to call this after checking whether
the REST API is up.

## Related issues
- Internal NVBugs ID 6563638

## Type of Change
- [ ] **Add** - New feature or capability
- [ ] **Change** - Changes in existing functionality
- [X] **Fix** - Bug fixes
- [ ] **Remove** - Removed features or deprecated functionality
- [ ] **Internal** - Internal changes (refactoring, tests, docs, etc.)

## Breaking Changes
- [ ] **This PR contains breaking changes**

## Testing
- [X] Unit tests added/updated
- [ ] Integration tests added/updated
- [ ] Manual testing performed
- [ ] No testing required (docs, internal refactor, etc.)
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