Feature request, bulk add devices

[snapReality]

I recently added hundreds of Windows and Netware devices to our Cacti. The basic steps were click Devices, click add, type descrition and hostname/IP, set Host Template, click save. Repeat many, many times.

I would be nice to have some method to "bulk import" from a list. Maybe a CSV file such as:
description, hostname, host_template_to_apply

I think I've read here that some are adding directly to the MySQL dababase.

[rony]

This is on the requested feature list, and has been for a while. I do see it being part of cacti, but not in the next release.

[pbulteel]

The thing about bulk addition is that you then have to create the graphs and select the graphs you want to add.

Example:

HostA, hostname-a, winxp-template
HostB, hostname-b, winxp-template, apache template
HostC, hostname-c, ucd/net-template, apache template, bind-9 template
HostD, hostname-d, winxp-template,

So something else should be done for it... not to mention that maybe you can add the ability to do a network scan and then add the hosts that you can ping or get snmp data from....

Maybe:

Hostname, hostdescription, snmp_ver/community

And then a screen that allows you to do a scan of those and determine what template you COULD apply to it. So you would then select from multiple template for each host.

I'm just throwing in some ideas. =)

-P

[Makenshi]

Perhaps another way to accomplish this would be to enter a network to scan, and have some method to map the snmp agents detected to the graphs you want to associate with that particular agent.

[TheWitness]

Lot's of greate ideas. Bandwidth is always a problem.

TheWitness