Implement: cable documentation (on map)

[Tux]

Hi,

my english is not very well, but i will try to explain.


Info:
Actually, there exist no open source soloution for a cable documentation. But this would be very useful for network-monitoring. Commercial tools cost like 20.000 Eur (or upper).

Suggestion:
At the first, it would be enough to find a easy way to get that.
It must be possible, to create textboxes or labels (left/right/top/bottom) of a cable on the map overview, with short description (e.g. Cat5e 100Mbit).

And if u click on the cable or the short name (detail> e.g. Cat5e 100Mbit), it popup (or shows via ballon tip) the long description?
This feature would be also allow, to create numbers or something like that (for both cable ends). So I can see, if the swith (Host) is down, it could be a cable fault. Now i can look in the cable description (with e.g. Roomname,floor,cable number, port number of the switch, where the cable is plugged in..) and know, which cabel and were the broken-down cabel is.

Optional:
To creat colored cabels with description and a cabel-legend box at one corner.


That feature would be awesome!

Thx for reading

Dennis (soon: electronic engineer)

[richlv]

in 1.8 you can put both static and dynamic labels on map links/connectors (by referencing any item, for example). they are not interactive, though

[Tux]

Thanks for the fast response. Great! i didn´t see that feature, but it´s possible to take the text (description) above or under (or maybe both things) the line (cable) ?

First of all, it will help me and my team for the final project.

[richlv]

no, additional customisation is not possible yet