[racktables-users] Re: Patch panels
- From: tormod.hope@xxxxxxxxxxx
- To: "racktables-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <racktables-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2015 14:56:17 +0100
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Its a Plugin, and it solves all your issues with cablemanagement.
mvh / best regards
Tormod Hope
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> Den 25. mar. 2015 kl. 14.48 skrev Michael Mol <mikemol@xxxxxxxxx>:
>
> Patch panels are an interesting device. They're straight, physical
passthroughs; you plug something in on the front, it goes out a cable on
the back, and connects to something somewhere else.
>
> Racktables has the ability for me to add ports to a patch panel device,
so if I have a 48-port patch panel, I could add 96 ports in Racktables,
call half of them "FRONT", and half of them "BACK". But Racktables doesn't
have a way to recognize that FRONT01 is a direct link to BACK01. I could
make that connection manually, but then I wouldn't be able to link any port
on any other device with either position on the patch panel, rendering it
useless.
>
> I hope I'm missing something here; if I can get patch panels in
Racktables to work the way I'd like, then I can easily turn around and
script up a wiring diagram generator that reads from the database,
generates a dotfile, passes it to Graphviz and presents me with a useful
diagram.
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