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Device Attributes

Version 4.3.X has added the ability to add attributes to a device based on the IP Fabric Unique Serial Number. Currently this supports manually changing a Device’s Site Name, Routing Domain, or STP Domain. More functionality will be released in future versions. Once an attribute is assigned a new snapshot is required for it to be applied.

Device attributes

  • Serial Number is IP Fabric’s Unique Serial Number (API column sn); this is not the column Serial Number which represents the Hardware SN (API column snHw)

    • Devices discovered via API can also be assigned using Device Attributes.

  • Hostname is populated by IP Fabric when a device matching the Serial Number is found

  • Attribute is the Device Attribute to assign. Currently supported is Site Name, Routing Domain, or STP Domain

  • Value is the attribute’s value to assign.

Creating rules in the UI

You are able to create rules in the UI by selecting the Add attribute button. This will provide you a form to fill out.

Device attributes rules

The dropdown is intuitive and will let you search based on SN or hostname.

Info

Currently there is an issue where IP Fabric will not search for devices discovered via an API in the UI. Even though it appears no devices match the SN it will still assign the attribute to the device.

Device attributes dropdown

Creating rules via the API

This is the preferred method of creating rules as it allows for bulk importing.

Method Put
URL https://<IPF_URL>/api/v1/attributes/global
Data {"attributes": [{"sn": "<IPF SERIAL NUMBER>", "value": "<SITE NAME>", "name": "siteName"}]

Creating Rules With python-ipfabric Package

Please see example at the following GitHub location:

https://github.com/community-fabric/python-ipfabric/blob/main/examples/settings/attributes.py