Serial Numbers
IP Fabric uses the serial number field as a key in its tables for a device. In some cases, the same serial number may be required to be used for multiple elements (for example, clusters, stacks or virtualized platforms).
Thus, the serial number is manipulated by IP Fabric in some way - anything from
a virtual context name to a simple _1
might be added.
This makes it potentially more difficult to match the serial number with other platforms outside IP Fabric.
To work around the issue, we did the following in version 3.7.0
:
- renamed the previous
Serial Number
column in the Device Inventory table (in Inventory → Devices) toUnique serial number
(including virtualization unique identifier such as context, VSYS, VDC etc.) - introduced a new
Serial Number
column (containing real serial numbers as reported by devices themselves)
By default, only the new Serial Number
column (with serial numbers as captured
on devices / as seen on other platforms) is shown in the Device Inventory
table:
The Unique serial number
column can be additionally enabled (click ...
in
the top-right corner of the table and select Display settings
):
As expected, some devices have different values in their Unique serial number
and Serial Number
columns:
Info
In the API, these columns are defined in the request body as:
{
"columns": [
"sn",
"snHw"
]
}
where sn
is the Unique serial number
field and snHw
is the Serial
Number
field.