Support for uploading list of Devices?

[gaby]

I have a weird use-case where there's around 50-70 hosts, but the lab uses a /16. Using the built-in scan in UpSnap is not feasable, I just takes forever and generates a lot of noise in the network with the large number of IP's.

Currently I could add devices one by one, but it would be useful to be able to add multiple from a file of mac addresses. Once upload UpSnap would scan each MAC to get information about IP's, or Domains, etc.

[gaby]

@seriousm4x Thoughts?

[seriousm4x]

I like the idea of giving the user multiple options to import devices automatically. I thought about a new section here called "Import" or something next to network scan.

And then giving the user multiple options to batch import devices. Just some ideas:

• Text field with mac addresses splitted by line (basically what you want)
• Upload a json
• ... ?

[gaby]

Ok, so there is an issue I just stumbled upon. Following scenario:

1. Paste a bunch of mac addresses into a text box and send it to the backend
2. Backend needs to resolve the mac address to get the IP address

Problem: It's not possible to "scan a single mac address". To get the IP address from a mac you would need to scan a network range and then match the found mac's to the given ones. So you are back at this point:

Using the built-in scan in UpSnap is not feasable, I just takes forever and generates a lot of noise in the network with the large number of IP's.

A possible solution would be to make both the mac and ip address required when batch importing. But that seems unintuitive and also is the website supposed to look like?

I haven't found a good solution to this yet.

Would uploading a list of IP's help? Or does it have to be mac-addresses?

My current file has both Mac and IP, since it's a dnsmasq file.

[seriousm4x]

Just did some research if thats possible but unfortunately not.
It doesn't matter if you want to go from ip -> mac or mac -> ip. You always need to do an arp scan of your network.

[gaby]

Makes sense, thanks for the effort! 💪

[seriousm4x]

Maybe you can create a little bash script to read the dnsmasq file and make use of the api.

• https://pocketbase.io/docs/api-records/#create-record
• And take a look at the collection api in upsnaps backend:
  http://localhost:8090/_/#/collections?collection=z5lghx2r3tm45n1 and click "API Preview" on the top right

[gaby]

Thanks, I will investigate.