Hi,
thanks for your contribution. It was really interestign because we
planned to completly review this part.
In order to understand completly your proposal, do you have time for a
short call on IRC or by phone tomorrow or next week ?
I do a quick review of your patch and have few questions about it.
It will be also possible to include in your changes others features like
http://www.glpi-project.org/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=127533
Regards
Julien
Le 12/07/2011 14:34, Damien Touraine a écrit :
Hello,
First, I would like to congratulate you for this software. It is very
powefull and efficient. Moreover, its object oriented implementation
is very well and allow many evolutions.
I studied this not as a computer information collector (through the
use of OCS inventory, for instance). Actually, I would like to use it
as real computing equipement manager (DNS and DHCP files generator).
However, I pointed that inside GLPI, the "networkport" class include
both physical/media layer (MAC address) and Host Layer (IP address).
However, in our lab, there is several computers that have several
network addresses on the same NIC (sometimes with VLAN). Moreover,
some computers have DNS aliases.
In other word, I suggest to introduce the "networknode" classes that
make abstraction of the material. For instance, the "networkNode"
manage the IP addresses of the card, while the networkport manage the
MAC address and its connections with the other equippements.
Moreover, I propose the creation of two other classes.
The first one manage the internet domains (ie : example.com).
Actually, there is already a domain class. But OCS inventory fills
this one by the Windows Domain.
The second class concern the definition of the networks and the
subnetworks (subnet + netmask + gateway). As such, when we add a
computer, we can, automatically affect it an IP included in a specific
network class (I created the three private classes 10.0.0.0/255.0.0.0,
172.16.0.0/255.240.0 and 192.168.0.0/255.255.0.0).
A attachement, i propose a patch that implement all theses elements. I
applied it on "glpi-unstable-083-2011-07-12" tarball downloaded from
the main site. This patch also include an update to integrate the mass
import from OCS.
I plan to work on this patch to improve it for our requirements
(manage the history, unicity of network names, ...). Moreover, I plan
to work on a specific plugin which purpose is to generate DNS, DHCP
and yellow pages configuration files. Be free to propose other
features in this aim. I will try to integrate it.
If you are satisfy with my proposition, maybe I can work straightly on
a SVN development branch of the project ?
Kind Regards
Damien Touraine
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