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Add support for tracking physical cable plants #20

Closed jeremystretch closed 5 years ago

jeremystretch commented 8 years ago

Currently, NetBox does not support any concept of physical cable plant installations. We can connect one interface to another, but there is no way too associate that connection with information about the physical path taken by the cabling.

Ideally, NetBox should support the construction of physical cable paths to be associated with data (and perhaps console) connections. This would entail the tracking of individual path panels and cables, as well as the ability to support bundles of cabling (e.g. MPO fiber trunks).

The database schema necessary to support this feature will take quite a bit of thought. However, once that schema has been devised and agreed upon, it should be relatively easy to incorporate in NetBox.