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The SAI Redis provides a SAI redis service that built on top of redis database. It contains two major components, 1) a SAI library that puts SAI objects into the redis database, 2) a syncd that takes the SAI objects and puts them into the ASIC.

Before installing, add key and package sources:

sudo apt-key adv --keyserver apt-mo.trafficmanager.net --recv-keys 417A0893
echo 'deb http://apt-mo.trafficmanager.net/repos/sonic/ trusty main' | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/sonic.list
sudo apt-get update

Install dependencies:

sudo apt-get install redis-server -t trusty
sudo apt-get install libhiredis0.13 -t trusty

Install building dependencies:

sudo apt-get install libtool
sudo apt-get install autoconf automake
sudo apt-get install dh-exec

There are a few different ways you can install sairedis.

For your convenience, you can install prepared packages on Debian Jessie:

sudo apt-get install libsairedis syncd

Checkout the source: git clone https://github.com/Azure/sonic-sairedis.git and install it yourself.

Get SAI header files into /usr/include/sai. Put the SAI header files that you use to compile libsairedis into /usr/include/sai

Get ASIC SDK and SAI packages from your ASIC vendor and install them.

Install prerequisite packages:

sudo apt-get install libswsscommon libswsscommon-dev

Before compiling, you will need to set an environmental variable to indicate which 'SAI flavor' you are using.

export DEB_SAI_FLAVOR=[FLAVOR]

You can compile and install from source using:

./autogen.sh
./configure --with-sai=$(DEB_SAI_FLAVOR)
make && sudo make install

You can also build a debian package using:

./autogen.sh
fakeroot debian/rules binary

For general questions, setup help, or troubleshooting:

• sonicproject on Google Groups

For bug reports or feature requests, please open an Issue.

See the contributors guide for information about how to contribute.

We're following basic GitHub Flow. If you have no idea what we're talking about, check out GitHub's official guide. Note that merge is only performed by the repository maintainer.

Guide for performing commits:

• Isolate each commit to one component/bugfix/issue/feature
• Use a standard commit message format:

[component/folder touched]: Description intent of your changes

[List of changes]

Signed-off-by: Your Name your@email.com

For example:

swss-common: Stabilize the ConsumerTable

* Fixing autoreconf
* Fixing unit-tests by adding checkers and initialize the DB before start
* Adding the ability to select from multiple channels
* Health-Monitor - The idea of the patch is that if something went wrong with the notification channel,
  we will have the option to know about it (Query the LLEN table length).

  Signed-off-by: user@dev.null

• Each developer should fork this repository and add the team as a Contributor
• Push your changes to your private fork and do "pull-request" to this repository
• Use a pull request to do code review
• Use issues to keep track of what is going on