NAME

RackMan::Device::Switch - Base role for network switches

SYNOPSIS

    RackMan::Device::Switch->meta->apply($rackdev);
    $rackdev->specialise;

DESCRIPTION

This module is the base role for network switches.

METHODS

formats

Return the list of configuration file formats to generate for this type of object.

specialise

Apply a specialised role, if available, to the object so it can know how to speak with the actual hardware, if needed.

CONFIGURATION

This module gets its configuration from the [device:switch] section of the main rack.conf, with the following parameters:

  • formats - specify the formats associated with a Switch object as a comma or space seperated list. Can be overridden with the --formats option. Default is "Cacti Nagios"

AUTHOR

Sebastien Aperghis-Tramoni