Allow non unique object names

[bb-Ricardo]

NetBox allows to assign the same name for different objects as long as there is a secondary unique key.

Descussion on this issue: netbox-community/netbox#2669

[joni1993]

I think this may be out of scope, because Icinga requires unique host names. The Import source also required a unique attribute for identification.

We could work-around this with a Boolean config option, which appends _1,_2,... on any duplicate host name, if that's applicable.

[bb-Ricardo]

I faced the same issue in another project and solved it by appending the site in brackets if site was set and object name not unique.

Would this be a possible solution?

[mrgohin]

As @joni1993 already mentioned for Icinga is an unique object_name mandatory.

So the problem which are you facing needs to be solved by creating a joined object_name consisting of multiple field values. Of course under the hood it isn't pretty but you can override ui with display_name attribute.

Since Director offers this solution by modifiers for an import source. I don't see any reason to implement this to the module. The modules purpose is to deliver data from a foreign source as modifiable as possible to Director.