Dynamical node description?

[joez]

Ok here is the problem:

I would like to monitor port utilization on some switches. For that reason I chose a picture of the switch as background image and made two nodes for each port, so there will be traffic arrows to show traffic load on each port.

To make the map more usable I would like to name the ports (i.e. nodes) after the devices attached to them. A cool way would be to read ifAlias of that port and automatically assign the value to the nodes label.

I dont know how to do that, somebody can help?

Thanks

[joez]

Hmm nobody knows anything?

Does that mean this is not possible?

Thanks

[Howie]

It's not possible currently. You'd need to have some other way to fetch the ifAlias info.

You can use something like

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LABEL {node:this:ifAlias}

to use that, but you need to have defined it first with

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SET ifAlias Gi0/1

or similar, in each node. Weathermap can't help with that at the moment.

[joez]

alright, thank you for the hint.

Having the interface desriptions on top is a little help after all!

[Howie]

I just realised it was you I replied to in the other thread too, but for the sake of other people searching...

You will be able to get ifAlias and ifDescr for interface stats in weathermap 0.96, amongst other things.