<div style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14px;"><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Sure, IXP manager is not a DCIM but it is just two extra fields in the database that could help a lot.</div><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">We also start using a Netbox for our own datacenters.  But it's better to have control over all IXP from one point instead of using tons of applications I think. Besides, not all our locations have patch panels and we connect members directly to switches, so such functionality could help to generate LoA. As a working around, we can create virtual patch panels with prewired ports and the same positions as a switch has.</div><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></div><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Thanks to all for the answers and have a nice day.</div><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></div><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;" contenteditable="false"><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">With kind regards, Aleksandr Belytskyi</div><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </div><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">NOC engineer</div><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Speed Internet Exchange</div><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Phone: +31(0)887378399</div><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">More: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://speed-ix.net/about-speed-ix">https://speed-ix.net/about-speed-ix</a>/</div></div></div><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></div><hr id="previousmessagehr" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; user-select: none;"><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">From</strong>: "Nick Hilliard (INEX)" <nick@inex.ie><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Sent</strong>: 6/30/21 6:02 PM<br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">To</strong>: INEX IXP Manager Users Mailing List <ixpmanager@inex.ie>, Ian Chilton <ian@lonap.net><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Cc</strong>: aleksandr@speed-ix.net<br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Subject</strong>: Re: [ixpmanager] Add position in rack for switches</span></div><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></div><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Ian Chilton wrote on 30/06/2021 15:12:</div><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">> Not to take away from your feature request, but FWIW, we use NetBox for</div><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">> rack, device, optic and inventory management as well as non-peering VLAN</div><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">> and IP address management.</div><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></div><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Ye, INEX uses netbox too.</div><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></div><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">IXP Manager is not a DCIM and it's not going to become one. There are</div><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">numerous products out there which will do a much better job of this than</div><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">ixp manager could ever do. The software aims to store only enough</div><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">configuration to operate an IXP, and DCIM info is really outside this scope.</div><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></div><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Nick</div></div>