Device Management Edge 0.11.0

Changes

Edge

• Pelion Device Management Client library updated to version 3.4.0.
• Mbed TLS updated to version 2.18.1.

Examples

No changes.

Metalayers

No changes.

Known issues

• Concurrent certificate renewals or enrollments for certificates with the same name, when calling pt_device_certificate_renew or pt_certificate_renew API, can fail unexpectedly because of incorrect detection of duplicate requests. A workaround for this is to only run one operation at a time and wait for the success or failure callback before calling the next certificate enrollment or renewal.
• Firmware update from morty version of Yocto to sumo does not work and makes devices unusable. The differences in the device trees of different versions cause problems when starting the kernel after the update.
• Edge communicates on behalf of multiple devices. There is an underlying limitation in the CoAP communication to effectively reduce the number of requests in flight to be one. On very heavy communication cases, this introduces extra latency. An example calculation:
  • 30 mediated devices with a resource tree of 20 resources.
  • Round trip time to Device Management is 200 ms.
  • 10 KB registration message.
  • Underlying Device Management Client sends data in 1 KB blocks and waits for an acknowledgement for each block. This equals to 10 * 200 ms = 2 seconds.
  • During that time, other messages are not processed.
  • If there are lots of notification updates passed to from Edge to Device Management, the responsiveness to Device Management initated requests may be hindered.
• There is a maximum size limit to the full registration message, which limits the number of devices Edge can host.
  • Maximum registration message size is 64 KB.
  • Hosted devices with five typical Resources consume ~280 bytes (the exact size depends, for example, on the length of resource paths). This limits the maximum number to 270 devices.
  • The more Resources you have, the fewer devices can be supported.
  • The Edge device Resources are also included in the same registration message.
  • Test the limits with your configuration and set guidance accordingly.
• Protocol translators may cause side effects on devices connecting through another protocol translator if both use the same names for the devices. Edge Core identifies the devices by their name. It is not always clear which protocol translator owns the device, and clashing names can cause unknown behavior. Ensure that devices have unique names across the protocol translators. For example, add a prefix or suffix based on the protocol translator name, which must be unique.
• DELETE (CoAP/LwM2M) operation is not supported.
• Devices moving between Edge instances have corner cases that are not supported. You need to deregister the devices from the current Edge instance before connecting to an another Edge instance.
• Device lifetime tracking of mediated devices is not supported. Devices have the same lifetime as the Edge device. The default is one hour. The #define to change the lifetime is MBED_CLOUD_CLIENT_LIFETIME.
• glib version used by default (2-48.2) can raise thread sanitizer errors. Updating glib can reduce those errors.