[FC] MAC Track MOD: VLAN Filter

[warnesj]

Hi all, love this plugin TheWitness! I made a little mod to it though that I thought I'd share.

With some of my switches (okay, probably all of my switches) I run multiple VLANs on them. Sometime I want information on just a particular VLAN for a site or a switch. MAC Track has all that information so I took a stab a modifying the code to help me filter for a VLAN and display information about it in the viewer table.

I made some changes to mactrack_view.php and html/inc_mactrack_view_site_filter_table.php and I think I have it working now. I've included both of the modified files below in the attached .zip file. In the mactrack_view.php I've tagged most of the changes with "//VLAN changes start" and "//VLAN changes end" so you can see where I made changes (or just look for every instance of "m_vlan_id" which is the session variable I use). I marked the changes in html/inc_mactrack_view_site_filter_table.php with some HTML comments (just look for "VLAN" and it'll take you to the area I added stuff).

Now my display has a VLAN filter drop-down list in it (highlighted in the image below),


And when I choose a VLAN the table updates and filter's the display (as shown below),


One thing that I think I'm going to do is alter the mac_track_ports table to index both the vlan_id and vlan_name rows to help speed up the creation of the drop-down list. But I really HATE modifying database tables just in case the changes I make screw up future usability.

Not sure if anyone else will find this mod useful, but I thought I'd share it anyway.

[MagicOneXXX]

Little "mods" like these are always useful Thanks!

[TheWitness]

This is Done!! in SVN.

TheWitness

[bambid]

Hi Witness, when will be available new version of MAC Track ?

[TheWitness]

I have 3 major features to write and am taking Device Type exports from users who have extended the interface. However, I am keeping the SVN fully operational for new features.

You can take snapshots. I have and will not touch scanning functions at this point, I am only adding UI feature and new functionality to go along with the existing data, so you should be safe.

However, you MUST be at Cacti 0.8.6i in order to take the SVN version.

TheWitness

[warnesj]

This is Done!! in SVN.

TheWitness

Was this in SVN before my post, if so sorry about that. I don't typically look at the SVN versions. I suppose I should.

[TheWitness]

Yes.

[Vins]

But still is not available in the stable version of branch 0.8.7x/0.8.8x... maybe I'm wrong, but I haven't seen it.
I've noticed the presence of the mac_track_vlan table and digged into the Cacti forum, finding out this post... funny enough, I hade to write a script by myself in order to retrieve all the vlans from the switchs; I've never wasted that time if I knew that mactrack already had this hidden functionality...

I'm quite sure most of the mactrack users would find it very useful.