subnetsandvlans
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| Please note that the vlan information is **not** compulsory in NAV. There are a number of advantages of having this information, however, the most vital components of NAV will operate fine without. | Please note that the vlan information is **not** compulsory in NAV. There are a number of advantages of having this information, however, the most vital components of NAV will operate fine without. | ||
| - | There are two subsystems in NAV that can fill in vlan information: the background process [[backendprocesses#getdevicedata|getDeviceData]] and the [[seedessentials|tool editDatabase]]. getDeviceData will attempt as far as possible to automatically fill in this information. This is easily achieved if you are using the NAV guidelines for configuring router interface descriptions (again - not a requirement - anyway - more below). | + | There are two subsystems in NAV that can fill in vlan information: the background process [[backendprocesses#ipdevpoll|ipdevpoll]] and the [[seedessentials|tool seedDatabase]]. ipdevpoll will attempt as far as possible to automatically fill in this information. This is easily achieved if you are using the NAV guidelines for configuring router interface descriptions (again - not a requirement - anyway - more below). |
| - | :!: [[seedessentials#vlan|the Edit Vlan component of editDatabase]] lets you complete missing information after getDeviceData has done its job. | + | :!: [[seedessentials#vlan|the Edit Vlan component of SeedDatabase]] lets you complete missing information after ipdevpoll has done its job. To be precise you can manually edit the organization, usage and vlan values. |
| ===== Network types ===== | ===== Network types ===== | ||
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| ===== Guide lines for configuring router interface descriptions ===== | ===== Guide lines for configuring router interface descriptions ===== | ||
| - | NAV has defined guide lines for configuring router interface descriptions (use the description-command in interface config mode on a cisco router). You may follow these guide lines if you like, getDeviceData will then take advantage of this and have an easy task filling in vlan attributes. | + | NAV has defined guide lines for configuring router interface descriptions (use the description-command in interface config mode on a cisco router). You may follow these guide lines if you like, ipdevpoll will then take advantage of this and have an easy task filling in vlan attributes. |
| - | The description setting also serves as a sensible documentation in the configs of your running routers. | + | The description setting also serves as a sensible documentation in the configurations of your running routers. |
| ==== Syntax ==== | ==== Syntax ==== | ||
subnetsandvlans.txt · Last modified: 2011/04/08 13:58 by faltin
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