| Description | It can start small and iteratively improve.
From alias field per switch, provided by Admin that would show instead of IP.
To auto-populated SNMP location, ifAlias and IfDescr that would be synchronized using a daemon that would scan all the switches in configuration from time to time (or maybe to begin with it would do a SNMP when adding the switch the first time).
From the mailing list:
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…
>
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