Add patch panels and display them

• Introduction
• Step 1 - Install the Cable Management extension
• Step 2 - Register PatchPanel class for the graphical view

Introduction

Patch panels are not part of the standard iTop datamodel, but they can be easily added and integrated with Datacenter View Extended thanks to TeemIP great and free Cable Management extension.

Here is a brief summary of its features:

• New PatchPanel objects
• New NetworkSocket objects
• New Cable objects
• Enhanced PhysicalInterface objects
• Wiring diagram

Overview - Copyright TeemIP

Step 1 - Install the Cable Management extension

• Retrieve the extension either on
  • Community users: iTop Hub or TeemIP website
  • Combodo’s customers: Contact Combodo’s support
• Install the extension as usual

Step 2 - Register PatchPanel class for the graphical view

• Open iTop configuration file
• Find molkobain-datacenter-view-extended section
• Add PatchPanel to the array of custom classes (to be displayed in the graphical view) in the custom_device_classes parameter
• Save configuration file

You should have something similar to this:

'molkobain-datacenter-view-extended' => array (
    'custom_device_classes' => ['CustomClassA', 'CustomClassB', 'PatchPanel'],
),