Hello,
I made significant improvement of the patch I proposed last week. I
posted it on the wiki
(https://forge.indepnet.net/projects/glpi/wiki/NetworkPortReview). I
updated the wiki page to explain the patch.
I thank you for all your suggestions. I tried to include it inside this
patch. However, some of these are not so simple to implement (for
instance : NAT, firewalls, port aggrgations, tunnerling, ...). I plan to
study it as soon as possible. But I would like to have a first version
that validates the way I propose to work. Conversely to what I said to
Walid, I cannot make the automatic generation of IP as a plugin because
the choice of the network to use is intrinsic of the creation of a
network address. However, the IP address is not forced : it is only
suggested. Moreover, we can choose, for a given network ("virtual" or
"real") if it propose such IPs.
The ocs mass import plugin should work correctly (I don't have a fully
functional OCS inventory database). The management of web services and
data injection should be simple to implement.
Be free to try this patch and to suggest me enhancements !
Regards
Damien Touraine
On 07/12/11 14:34, Damien Touraine wrote:
Hello,
First, I would like to congratulate you for this software. It is very
powefull and efficient. Moreover, its object oriented implementation
is very well and allow many evolutions.
I studied this not as a computer information collector (through the
use of OCS inventory, for instance). Actually, I would like to use it
as real computing equipement manager (DNS and DHCP files generator).
However, I pointed that inside GLPI, the "networkport" class include
both physical/media layer (MAC address) and Host Layer (IP address).
However, in our lab, there is several computers that have several
network addresses on the same NIC (sometimes with VLAN). Moreover,
some computers have DNS aliases.
In other word, I suggest to introduce the "networknode" classes that
make abstraction of the material. For instance, the "networkNode"
manage the IP addresses of the card, while the networkport manage the
MAC address and its connections with the other equippements.
Moreover, I propose the creation of two other classes.
The first one manage the internet domains (ie : example.com).
Actually, there is already a domain class. But OCS inventory fills
this one by the Windows Domain.
The second class concern the definition of the networks and the
subnetworks (subnet + netmask + gateway). As such, when we add a
computer, we can, automatically affect it an IP included in a specific
network class (I created the three private classes 10.0.0.0/255.0.0.0,
172.16.0.0/255.240.0 and 192.168.0.0/255.255.0.0).
A attachement, i propose a patch that implement all theses elements. I
applied it on "glpi-unstable-083-2011-07-12" tarball downloaded from
the main site. This patch also include an update to integrate the mass
import from OCS.
I plan to work on this patch to improve it for our requirements
(manage the history, unicity of network names, ...). Moreover, I plan
to work on a specific plugin which purpose is to generate DNS, DHCP
and yellow pages configuration files. Be free to propose other
features in this aim. I will try to integrate it.
If you are satisfy with my proposition, maybe I can work straightly on
a SVN development branch of the project ?
Kind Regards
Damien Touraine
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