[ixpmanager] Patch Panels

[Mike Hammett]

I figured out how the system works. Well, kind of. As I need a text prefix, each column in my panel would be it's own patch panel, they just share a common patch panel ID (and thus appear multiple times). The prefix is stored in the table for the patch panel. The number for the row is stored as an integer, creating a prefix\row combination. However, due to being an integer, I cannot add a text suffix. 




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Mike Hammett 
Intelligent Computing Solutions 

Midwest Internet Exchange 

The Brothers WISP 

----- Original Message -----

From: "Mike Hammett" <ixp-manager at ics-il.net> 
To: "INEX IXP Manager Mailing List" <ixpmanager at inex.ie> 
Sent: Sunday, April 9, 2017 8:59:15 AM 
Subject: Re: [ixpmanager] Patch Panels 


Can we get the capability to delete ports within a patch panel? Currently when I mess something up, I have to delete the whole panel and start over. Fine now that IXP Manager isn't in production, but a bit more of an issue later. 

Can we get the ability to edit port names? As we should be entering each port and my panel only has labels for the duplex port as a whole, I was going to append L and R to the end of each existing port to signify the left and right ports in the duplex port. I went looking in SQL, but I don't see where the port name is stored to just modify it there. 




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Mike Hammett 
Intelligent Computing Solutions 

Midwest Internet Exchange 

The Brothers WISP 

----- Original Message -----

From: "Barry O'Donovan" <barry.odonovan at inex.ie> 
To: "INEX IXP Manager Mailing List" <ixpmanager at inex.ie> 
Sent: Monday, March 27, 2017 2:45:04 PM 
Subject: Re: [ixpmanager] Patch Panels 

Hi Mike, 

Mike Hammett wrote: 
> If there's rack\cabinet names alongside, then there probably won't be 
> any confusion. I haven't had time to go any deeper with it yet today. 

I've updated the help and documentation on this: 

https://github.com/inex/ixp-manager-docs-md/commit/9472628d7e5f4a987d346b937b7d4388caa087b8 

This includes adding a free text field in patch panels which is 
explained in the above. 

> Also, you say to include both ports of a duplex port. If the panel 
> itself doesn't provide any distinction between right and left strands, 
> should I manually include that distinction? Ours just have letters for 
> which column and numbers for which row, with a duplex connection 
> occupying a single location. 

Also added a new section on duplex ports to the documentation. 

The tl;dr version is: IXP Manager offers flexibility, you need to make a 
decision on how best to use it to represent your own scenario. 

- Barry 


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