"Modify" instead of "ADD"

[tobiasbrisach]

Thanks for this awesome tool. Does perfectly what it should do.

One little feature I would like to ask for: Is it possible to use the tool for modifying, too?

So I could make modifications in the excel and the scripts pushes them to the FMG without me deleting all devices in first?

And to make it even greater, use it to replace devices by changing the serial number in the excel?

Thanks for the great work and the time you spend with it.

[tmorris-ftnt]

Hi, Thanks for the feedback!

Allowing modification should be easy enough, it might need to be an option as some users rely on the fact it will fail if the device already exists.

Changing the SN of a device that already exists isn't doable via the API as far as I know.

[tobiasbrisach]

Hi Tim,

a colleague of mine (you already had contact with him in Issue #17) found some API Commands for replacing a devices:

Does this help?

[tmorris-ftnt]

I cant get that API command to work for either a model device or a real device, the CLI version of it works (exec device replace sn).

How do you think it would work if it detects a model device with the same name in the same ADOM you're trying to add that it just deletes the device automatically then re-adds it with the new information provided?

For the update feature are you looking at this for model devices or for devices after they have been deployed? I can see if being useful if you wanted to push out an update and you needed to add or update meta-fields to existing devices.

[tobiasbrisach]

I think the best would be, that if the device already exist, but differs from the excel data, it will be modified without being deleted in front.

If it is a modell device, it makes not difference for me if it is deleted automatically during the process.

But if it is an already deploy device deletion and redeploy could cause problems.

Perhaps it is possible to have only one process for deploying and modifying, so the tool would add for non existent and modify for existing devices in one run.