RackTables is a datacenter asset management system. By default is is configured with several object-types that are used in most datacenters, like network-switch, server, PDU, ups, etc. However, some obvious object types are missing. A firewall or loadbalancer are quite often used in datacenter environments. But RackTables is very flexible and extensible. You can easily add your own custom object type. To do this, follow the following steps.
- Go to Configuration, Dictionary
- Click RackObjectType
- Click the ‘Edit’ tab
- Add the Object-type you want and click the ‘+’
By default, you cannot attach an ip address to an object-type. This must be configured manually. You need to have the objectid of the type you just added.
When you go to the Configuration -> Dictionary -> RackObjects page and look at the HTML source of that page you see something like:
<tr><td><img src='?module=chrome&uri=pix/tango-emblem-favorite.png' width=16 height=16 border=0 ></td><td>78</td><td><div title='key=50019'>Firewall</div></td></tr>
The key=50019 is the id that you add in the list of IPV4 enabled objects.
To make the object IPv4 enabled, follow the following steps.
- Go to Configuration, User-interface
- Click the ‘change’ tab
- Add the object id to the textbox named ‘List source: IPv4-enabled objects’
The list of IPv4 enabled objects should be something like:
{$typeid_4} or {$typeid_7} or {$typeid_8} or {$typeid_12} or {$typeid_445} or {$typeid_447} or {$typeid_50019} or {$typeid_2} or {$typeid_50063}