10 years ago
set descriptions via API
I would like to input descriptions for the network ports on my switches (I don\'t see a way to do this on the switch side) however if I do this then when auto discovery runs again it wipes those va...
There is nor currently an API call to update instance descriptions - but if you just want to stop them from being removed automatically, thats easy enough.rnJust edit the datasource and remove the OID from the description field.rnThen you can manually edit the instance descriptions, and they will never be wiped out.rn(Of course this means that if you do have switches that do support interface descriptions - those will not be pulled in.)