Different vendors stick different things in ifAlias and ifDesc, so having the ability to choose which to use for port naming would be nice. It would also be nice to be able to use the sysName and SysLocation so that sysName is listed instead of the switch IP.
Help Desk staff at my employer stated that they felt this would make things easier for them and had asked me to look into adding such features. I might be able to contribute code to this affect, but need to spend the time to figure out how best to do it, which would be a discussion I can move onto the devel list. Nicholas -----Original Message----- From: Olivier Bilodeau [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2011 4:19 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Packetfence-users] A switch Alias would be handy Hi guys, On 25/01/11 3:47 PM, Kurtis Drefs wrote: > I don't know if this has been brought up before or not but here is > suggestion. When I am creating a switch I can only enter an IP for that > switch. This limits the UI when displaying records in Node/view to show > only the switch IP which I find quite unfriendly. A field for a switch > alias would be nice then adjust the query for the UI to look for alias > first, and if none exists use IP instead. The 'switches' page could be > adjusted to display "IP - Alias - Type - Mode - etc... > I had a strong feeling that a ticket for that was already filed but I couldn't find it so I just filed one: #1172: More information / metadata about switches (network devices) http://www.packetfence.org/bugs/view.php?id=1172 The Alias idea bears the most bang for the buck. Anyone interested should consider sponsoring the feature otherwise I'm afraid our priorities are not there at the moment. Thanks for the idea! -- 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) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------ Special Offer-- Download ArcSight Logger for FREE (a $49 USD value)! Finally, a world-class log management solution at an even better price-free! Download using promo code Free_Logger_4_Dev2Dev. Offer expires February 28th, so secure your free ArcSight Logger TODAY! http://p.sf.net/sfu/arcsight-sfd2d _______________________________________________ Packetfence-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/packetfence-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Special Offer-- Download ArcSight Logger for FREE (a $49 USD value)! Finally, a world-class log management solution at an even better price-free! Download using promo code Free_Logger_4_Dev2Dev. Offer expires February 28th, so secure your free ArcSight Logger TODAY! http://p.sf.net/sfu/arcsight-sfd2d _______________________________________________ Packetfence-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/packetfence-users
