Autodelete duplicate devices that have the same IP

[joel72265]

Is there an existing issue for this?

• I have searched the existing open and closed issues

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe

Feature Suggestion: Housekeeping

Autodelete duplicate devices that have the same IP.

Describe the solution you'd like

eg. 4 devices have the same IP, 3 are offline, 1 is online. Keep the device that is online and auto delete the stale devices. This happens if you clone a device or take backups.

Describe alternatives you've considered

Delete the duplicates manually

Anything else?

NA

Am I willing to test this? 🧪

• I will do my best to test this feature on the netlertx-dev image when requested within 48h and report bugs to help deliver a great user experience for everyone and not to break existing installations.

Can I help implement this? 👩‍💻👨‍💻

• Yes
• No

[slammingprogramming]

@jokob-sk what's the way you want this handled?

[jokob-sk]

I was thinking expanding the Workflows to allow creation of conditions for which target device is updated and support for contextual values, e. G. {currentDeviceContext. devLastIp} to be used in conditions or value fields. I know not trivial but gives almost unlimited flexibility.

On the other hand once we have the NICs sorted and added some auto assignment for random macs via some finger printing then this issue might be resolved as well

[adamoutler]

I'm not sure this could be done at a broad scale. Eg. There would need to be business logic to handle 127.0.0.1. but the proper fix would be to use 127.0.0.[2,3,4...]. This would definitely need to be done via workflow and the user would need to know what they are doing.