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Multiple drivers attached to a model
I have written 2 drivers at this point , uploaded one and set it as active which basically updated it to all the matching resources.
Now, I uploaded another one and when I go to set it active it says “Activating the driver will enable it in all relevant resources (skipping resources which already have a different driver). Do you want to continue?”
Does this mean my first driver which is already assigned to resources will not have this second driver in addition to it?
How can we have 2 drivers active at the same time? Is this even possible.
Here is my use case.
I have say 5 devices D1, D2 , D3 , D4, D5
Driver 1 has commands like ping which can be executed on all the devices
Driver 2 has commands which can only be executed on D2, D3, D4
How to make this work so that
D1, D2 , D3 , D4, D5 have Driver1
While D2,D3,D4 have Driver 1 and Driver 2
Using the activate option will apply the new driver only to resources that are from the selected models, and do not have a driver set for them yet.
So if you add a new driver, and assign it to the same models, the activate will skip any resource that already has Driver 1 set.
While you can assign multiple drivers to a model, you can only assign one driver per resource, and if needed, you can switch between them (manually in Resource Manager or via the API).
For your scenario, you can do either:
1. add all the functionality to Driver 1, and based on the resource, some of the commands will end without doing anything (with a proper message to the user that this command is not relevant to this device)
2. use a combination of a driver and resource scripts, this can be used side by side, so when you look at the list of commands a resource has, you'll see the ones from the driver + any resource script that is assigned to this resource model. Any script that is generic enough can be then used to even multiple models (scripts such as: ping, open ticket/report problem, etc).
Yaniv
