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Pim van Pelt fb62532fd5 VPP LB counters, src-ip-sticky, and frontend state aggregation
New feature: per-VIP / per-backend runtime counters
  * New GetVPPLBCounters RPC serving an in-process snapshot refreshed
    by a 5s scrape loop (internal/vpp/lbstats.go). Each cycle pulls
    the LB plugin's four SimpleCounters (next, first, untracked,
    no-server) plus the FIB /net/route/to CombinedCounter for every
    VIP and every backend host prefix via a single DumpStats call.
  * FIB stats-index discovery via ip_route_lookup (internal/vpp/
    fibstats.go); per-worker reduction happens in the collector.
  * Prometheus collector exports vip_packets_total (kind label),
    vip_route_{packets,bytes}_total, and backend_route_{packets,
    bytes}_total. Metrics source interface extended with VIPStats /
    BackendRouteStats; vpp.Client publishes snapshots via
    atomic.Pointer and clears them on disconnect.
  * New 'show vpp lb counters' CLI command. The 'show vpp lbstate'
    and 'sync vpp lbstate' commands are restructured under 'show
    vpp lb {state,counters}' / 'sync vpp lb state' to make room
    for the new verb.

New feature: src-ip-sticky frontends
  * New frontend YAML key 'src-ip-sticky' (bool). Plumbed through
    config.Frontend, desiredVIP, and the lb_add_del_vip_v2 call.
  * Reflected in gRPC FrontendInfo.src_ip_sticky and VPPLBVIP.
    src_ip_sticky, and shown in 'show vpp lb state' output.
  * Scraped back from VPP by parsing 'show lb vips verbose' through
    cli_inband — lb_vip_details does not expose the flag. The same
    scrape also recovers the LB pool index for each VIP, which the
    stats-segment counters are keyed on. This is a documented
    temporary workaround until VPP ships an lb_vip_v2_dump.
  * src_ip_sticky cannot be mutated on a live VIP, so a flipped flag
    triggers a tear-down-and-recreate in reconcileVIP (ASes deleted
    with flush, VIP deleted, then re-added). Flip is logged.

New feature: frontend state aggregation and events
  * New health.FrontendState (unknown/up/down) and FrontendTransition
    types. A frontend is 'up' iff at least one backend has a nonzero
    effective weight, 'unknown' iff no backend has real state yet,
    and 'down' otherwise.
  * Checker tracks per-frontend aggregate state, recomputing after
    each backend transition and emitting a frontend-transition Event
    on change. Reload drops entries for removed frontends.
  * checker.Event gains an optional FrontendTransition pointer;
    backend- vs. frontend-transition events are demultiplexed on
    that field.
  * WatchEvents now sends an initial snapshot of frontend state on
    connect (mirroring the existing backend snapshot), subscribes
    once to the checker stream, and fans out to backend/frontend
    handlers based on the client's filter flags. The proto
    FrontendEvent message grows name + transition fields.
  * New Checker.FrontendState accessor.

Refactor: pure health helpers
  * Moved the priority-failover selector and the (pool idx, active
    pool, state, cfg weight) → (vpp weight, flush) mapping out of
    internal/vpp/lbsync.go into a new internal/health/weights.go so
    the checker can reuse them for frontend-state computation
    without importing internal/vpp.
  * New functions: health.ActivePoolIndex, BackendEffectiveWeight,
    EffectiveWeights, ComputeFrontendState. lbsync.go now calls
    these directly; vpp.EffectiveWeights is a thin wrapper over
    health.EffectiveWeights retained for the gRPC observability
    path. Fully unit-tested in internal/health/weights_test.go.

maglevc polish
  * --color default is now mode-aware: on in the interactive shell,
    off in one-shot mode so piped output is script-safe. Explicit
    --color=true/false still overrides.
  * New stripHostMask helper drops /32 and /128 from VIP display;
    non-host prefixes pass through unchanged.
  * Counter table column order fixed (first before next) and
    packets/bytes columns renamed to fib-packets/fib-bytes to
    clarify they come from the FIB, not the LB plugin.

Docs
  * config-guide: document src-ip-sticky, including the VIP
    recreate-on-change caveat.
  * user-guide, maglevc.1, maglevd.8: updated command tree, new
    counters command, color defaults, and the src-ip-sticky field.
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.TH MAGLEVC 1 "April 2026" "vpp\-maglev" "User Commands"
.SH NAME
maglevc \- Maglev health\-checker CLI client
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B maglevc
[\fB\-server\fR \fIaddr\fR]
[\fB\-color\fR[=\fIbool\fR]]
[\fIcommand\fR [\fIargs\fR...]]
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B maglevc
is an interactive CLI client for
.BR maglevd (8).
Without arguments it opens a readline shell with tab completion and
inline help.
A command may also be passed directly on the command line for one\-shot
use, which is useful for scripting; in that mode ANSI color is
disabled by default so the output is script\-safe. Pass
.B \-color=true
explicitly if you want color in one\-shot mode.
.PP
When the shell starts it prints the build version and connects to the
.B maglevd
gRPC server specified by
.BR \-server .
All static tokens support tab completion; dynamic names (frontend,
backend, health\-check names) are completed by querying the server.
Type
.B ?
at any point to list completions without advancing the input.
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
.BI \-server " addr"
Address of the
.B maglevd
gRPC server.
(default:
.IR localhost:9090 )
.TP
.BR \-color [=\fIbool\fR]
Colorize static field labels in output using ANSI dark blue. The
default is mode\-aware: enabled (true) in the interactive shell, and
disabled (false) in one\-shot mode so that output piped into scripts
or files stays free of escape codes. Pass
.B \-color=true
or
.B \-color=false
explicitly to override the default for either mode.
.SH EXAMPLES
Open the interactive shell (no command on the command line). Tab
completes the current token; typing
.B ?
lists candidates at the cursor.
.B quit
or
.B exit
(or Ctrl\-D) leaves the shell:
.PP
.RS
.EX
$ maglevc
maglevc> show frontends
\&...
maglevc> quit
.EE
.RE
.PP
One\-shot query passed on the command line (color is off by default
in this mode so the output is script\-safe):
.PP
.RS
.EX
$ maglevc show frontends
.EE
.RE
.PP
Query VPP version and connection status, forcing color on:
.PP
.RS
.EX
$ maglevc \-color=true show vpp info
.EE
.RE
.SH "FULL DOCUMENTATION"
This manpage documents only the invocation of
.BR maglevc .
For the complete command reference — every
.BR show ", " set ", " sync ", " config ", and " watch
command, with examples and operational notes — see the user guide at:
.PP
.RS
https://git.ipng.ch/ipng/vpp-maglev/docs/user-guide.md
.RE
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR maglevd (8)
.SH AUTHOR
Pim van Pelt <pim@ipng.ch>