Greetings all:
We have created several new custom property fields for our switches, and I'm writing some scripts to help with the mass update. We've exported all of the switches with all of their properties including some dynamic data like status, machine type, IOS information, etc.
The exported data contains blanks in the new custom property fields which need to be updated (so the exported csv has the headers, but blank data).
Essentially, my (Python) scripts take this data as a dictionary and update it based on another dictionary which matches the IP Address with the new values to be added. The result is a CSV just like the export, but with the new custom property data filled in.
My question: is there any harm in importing (updating) these nodes with the dynamic data (which of course was discovered by SNMP)? I've seen in the past (many years ago) if you update the hostname, it no longer updates dynamically, and I don't want to screw up the dynamic updates to these fields.
Thanks in advance for any guidance here.
