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Network Source of Truth is an open source IPAM and network inventory database
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Nesting Sites #215

Open lampwins opened 8 years ago

lampwins commented 8 years ago

I would like to nest sites. Example being I have an over arching "Main Campus" and inside of there I have sites for individual buildings. Perhaps I have a group of devices within a building that I want to treat differently than all others but still see it within the containing building (site).

jathanism commented 8 years ago

We've talked about that before using the "Location" concept. Is this kind of what you're thinking?

See: https://github.com/dropbox/nsot/issues/186

lampwins commented 8 years ago

This would solve the aggregation part of it, but I also want to see the statistics provided in the dashboard. I.e networks in use for a nested site/location. As it stands though, I think this is a duplicate of #186 unless this idea of the dashboard intelligence is different.

jathanism commented 8 years ago

To mirror what we discussed on Slack:

I really want to be able to have dashboarding done by existing attributes, since attributes are all user-defined, I think this would be an interesting way to tackle dashboarding from that perspective.

For example I'd like to have a dashboard for devices showing stats by vendor, hw_type

So perhaps a winning dashboard solution would be to choose the attributes you want to see. And if it's a nestable object such as location, (e.g. has parent/children)... to have it be viewable as such Attribute-based dashboard widgets of sorts.