thapar : Any free cycles to work on this? 
Hi k.faseela, do you plan to work on this?
This can be nice improvement, but currently (at least to my knowledge) we don't have dependency on infrautils, so we need to figure out restconf/netconf stack readiness somehow on our own.
Jakub JMorvay , this is definitely on my to-do list, but am currently on vacation.. had discussed with vorburger about this sometime back and created the jira for tracking.. let us discuss about this once am back..(only in November)
> we don't have dependency on infrautils
netconf could add a dependency on infrautils, of course?
> so we need to figure out restconf/netconf stack readiness somehow on our own
even the infrautils diagstatus thing, restconf/netconf would need to figure out its stack readiness on its own... but it would be able to communicate that status to the overall solution package, which is very important for real world operational monitorability, e.g. via the /diagstatus URL.
But I have a question: How/when/where exactly does restconf & netconf actually "open up external facing ports" ? I'm asking because if all it does is register servlets with our Web API (from aaa.web), then I'm not sure if there really is anything to do here... if that happens in a constructor or @PostConstruct of some BP @Singleton (<bean>), then infrautils.ready will already check for any failure and report them correctly. The only reason why an explicit ServiceStatusProvider in restconf/netconf would be useful would be if it did more "dynamically" open and close ports, after the Blueprint boot - but does it? tpantelis may have some input here as well. Just to illustrate further, the IFM and ITM status providers are actually completely useless (and really should be removed as still not implemented with anything providing real dynamic status data), because they don't really add any value beyond what the "technical readyness" (bundle & blueprint) start already tells us, whereas the DatastoreServiceStatusProvider adds real value, because it provides monitoring insight into a dynamically changing state.