To get the BOOTED value of the lab

[sig9org]

Hi,

I want to shut down an abandoned lab at a certain period of time. The startup time of the lab can be obtained in the lab's BOOTED. However, virl2_client does not allow me to get this value.

I hope that virl2_client will be extended to be able to get the BOOTED of the lab.

[PatrikMosko]

@tmikuska I think this issue was raised long time ago, but related to controller BE - currently we do NOT keep information about lab uptime anywhere on the controller side, if I am correct.

Is this by design?
Having one simple property for this is definitely better than looping through all the nodes in /labs/{lab_id}/simulation_stats dict.

Another question, unrelated to whether we decide to do/don't update the BE - do we want to add Lab.uptime to PCL? Since we already did some QoL additions to annotations, that are not part of BE/schema, having something extra for Labs (Lab,uptime) shouldn't be an issue.