Minor feature suggestion for the D-LINK switches.
As, iin Observium, one cannot change the port description, you need to rely on being able to set those in the switches (e.g. when you want to use Peering, Transit and other trickery).
On D-LINK ifName contains a generated Slot0/1 … Slot0/28, etc. These cannot be changed.
However at
.1.3.6.1.4.1.171.10.76.21.1.1.16.1.2 (DGS series) .1.3.6.1.4.1.171.10.75.15.2.1.14.1.3 (DES series)
and so on - there is a always a table with a sysPortDescString :
$ snmptranslate -Tp -M+`pwd`:d-link -m+DES-1210-28MEbx .1.3.6.1.4.1.171.10.75.15.2.1.14.1.3
+-- -RW- String sysPortDescString(3) Textual Convention: DisplayString Size: 0..32
I.e. in the private enterprise MIBs for the various DGS/DES switches there is a sysPortDescString that can be set by the user through the file/SDN or web interfaces.
Example of the output below. May be useful to pick up.
Dw.
snmpwalk -M+/usr/local/www/observium/mibs/d-link -m+Q-BRIDGE-MIB -m+DGS-1210-28P-CX -v2c -c public 10.11.0.18 sysPortDescString DGS-1210-28P-CX::sysPortDescString.1 = STRING: Guest_Port DGS-1210-28P-CX::sysPortDescString.2 = STRING: Guest_Port DGS-1210-28P-CX::sysPortDescString.3 = STRING: Guest_Port DGS-1210-28P-CX::sysPortDescString.4 = STRING: Guest_Port DGS-1210-28P-CX::sysPortDescString.5 = STRING: Guest_Port DGS-1210-28P-CX::sysPortDescString.6 = STRING: Guest_Port DGS-1210-28P-CX::sysPortDescString.7 = STRING: Guest_Port DGS-1210-28P-CX::sysPortDescString.8 = STRING: Guest_Port DGS-1210-28P-CX::sysPortDescString.9 = STRING: Flow 39 DGS-1210-28P-CX::sysPortDescString.10 = STRING: DGS-1210-28P-CX::sysPortDescString.11 = STRING: PI 39 DGS-1210-28P-CX::sysPortDescString.12 = STRING: Flow 37 DGS-1210-28P-CX::sysPortDescString.13 = STRING: DGS-1210-28P-CX::sysPortDescString.14 = STRING: Beeb DGS-1210-28P-CX::sysPortDescString.15 = STRING: DGS-1210-28P-CX::sysPortDescString.16 = STRING: Lintercept DGS-1210-28P-CX::sysPortDescString.17 = STRING: DGS-1210-28P-CX::sysPortDescString.18 = STRING: DGS-1210-28P-CX::sysPortDescString.19 = STRING: DGS-1210-28P-CX::sysPortDescString.20 = STRING: DGS-1210-28P-CX::sysPortDescString.21 = STRING: Wifi - Ypenburg DGS-1210-28P-CX::sysPortDescString.22 = STRING: Wifi - Soesteberg DGS-1210-28P-CX::sysPortDescString.23 = STRING: Wifi - Valkenburg DGS-1210-28P-CX::sysPortDescString.24 = STRING: DGS-1210-28P-CX::sysPortDescString.25 = STRING: TopOfRack: 16A DGS-1210-28P-CX::sysPortDescString.26 = STRING: TopOfRack: 16B DGS-1210-28P-CX::sysPortDescString.27 = STRING: TopOfRack: 19A DGS-1210-28P-CX::sysPortDescString.28 = STRING: TopOfRack: 19B