Hi,
I was thinking that the ability for SW to automatically populated user defined custom properties based upon rules created by the user would be useful.
For example. Lets say im going to add a cisco 3750 48 Port. One of my custom properties might be the number of users supported. In this case 48 would be the value I would like to assign. But instead of importing all the devices then having to go through and retrospectively add in all the custom properties it would be great if before hand I had a number of rules set up (much like the micrsoft rules wizard).So I may have a rule that says if Node.x = y then Node.xcustom = 48 and Node.layer = access
So while im adding the new device and i have added the iP address and snmp strings and sw checks the devices sees that those values match and populates the field.
I am sure this is possible to do retrospectively with a number of sql statements but it would be nice to have it inbuilt.
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.
What do you guys think?
Regards
Miron