Hi Robin, On 28/09/10 6:12 PM, Kundert, Robin wrote: > Is it possible to display a more friendly name rather than the switch IP > address? Either the DNS name associated with the IP address or the SNMP > sysName would be more intuitive than an IP address in our case. I had > hoped that the “ip = “ statement in switches.conf would let me specify > an IP address and place an arbitrary name in between the brackets but > now such luck. I’m curious if I’ve missed something, how other address > this or if this might be something worthy of inclusion in the product.
There are means to fetch the SysName but, as you correctly stated, inside PacketFence everything network device is an IP. When you say display, where would you be interested in seeing a name (being DNS, SysName or [...]) instead of an IP? Thanks, -- Olivier Bilodeau [email protected] :: +1.514.447.4918 *115 :: www.inverse.ca Inverse inc. :: Leaders behind SOGo (www.sogo.nu) and PacketFence (www.packetfence.org) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Nokia and AT&T present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America contest Create new apps & games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in U.S. and Canada $10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly $6M in marketing Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi Store http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Packetfence-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/packetfence-users
