Feature Request: NPM:: Auto Custom Property Population

Dynamic custom properties seems like a great idea.

Problem with my idea is that I understand (could be wrong) that the custom properties will be phased out in favour of tags as in APM.

I"m not sure from where this suggestion originates, but there are no plans, no plans whatsoever, to phase out custom properties.  I repeat, we are NOT phasing out custom properties.  We are deeply, madly in love with custom properties.  We cannot imagine life without them.  If anything, we plan to extend and improve custom properties.  We may even bring them flowers, in case they're upset at the suggestion that we are not fully committed to them.

Denny,

My apologies to custom properties and the families of custom properties and any finanical implication that custom properties may  incur from having to restore the publics good faith in them.

My bad:-)

Miron

No worries.  Our custom properties are sensitive, but quite forgiving.

Actually Dynamic Custom Properties is exactly the kind of thing I was thinking I need these days.  We have hundreds of nodes and often people forget or incorrectly set the custom properties fields when modifying or adding new boxes.  If I could automatically set Custom Properties based on the node name/location/vendor/model etc that would be a HUGE time saver.

I was also thinking that having Dynamic UNDP pollers based on the Custom Properties field would be similarly fantastic - these days I add things like a Cisco router and have to go through manual process of adding multiple UNDP pollers (the web interface btw needs some way to select multiple UNDP pollers in one go based on the Group like the UNDP application lets you!).  Similarly sometimes servers would change from being a IBM to a HP for example - I would love UNDP to detect this and automatically add the correct pollers for the hardware model - right now thats a lot of extra work when we're doing upgrades/migrations...

Any chance of any of these coming soon?

smc...

I like that extra bit you added regarding the Dynamic UNDP Pollers would be a great addition.

:-)

Miron

Another feature that would be nice is if you can append the results of a custom poller to the tail end of the Node name. 

For example:

We have a wireless Mesh network that has 6 radios in each box each with their own IP's.  When they are discovered they all return (i.e. Site123).  It would be nice if you could have the ability to do something like:

Site123 + (UnDP Results) - In this case the site might have the following results

Site123-802.11

Site123-SBC Host

Site123-XCVR

Right now I have around 2000 wireless sites that show up all with the same name replicated 6x and can't figure out what component it is without having to click on this Node or memorizing IP addresses.