Rack roles

[bellwood]

Would it be possible to allow rack name aliases?

We often refer to racks internally by their purpose (hosting, VPS, cloud, backup, demarc, etc) or by the colo customers name/company who is occupying the rack.

[ryanmerolle]

You could also base the primary key and slug on netbox assigned IDs. That way naming can overlap if needed. It allows flexibility. I'm not a huge fan, but it's an option.

[bellwood]

Would be nice, I have multiple colo customers with multiple racks

[jeremystretch]

Would this be addressed by a combination of #132 (tagging) and #16 (multitenancy)?

[bellwood]

Potentially universal search would - not sure on multi-tenancy

Would depend on implementation I suppose

[jeremystretch]

After some discussion, we'd like to implement roles for racks, similar to the roles we have for devices, prefixes, and VLANs. These will be user-defineable and optional.

Roles could be combined with multitenancy to cover the customer/colocation aspect.