DCE: Outlet Control from web interface??

[marting]

Have been requesting this since 2020 (reference) at least and I'm wondering if there's any chance of getting this implemented or getting bumped up on the priority list?  If this is not the best way to submit feature requests, can you let me know what would be better?

Currently, if we want to cycle power to a device and we're not sure which PDU that device is on, the workflow is:

1. Log in to DCE web interface
2. Go to Search and search for the device
3. Make note of the PDU the device is on
4. Go to the DCE Windows client
5. Find the PDU in question
6. Right-click and open the Outlet Control menu

Obviously, this is not pretty.

Seems like adding this functionality to the web interface would not be a huge lift, right?...

[Cory_McDonald · Accepted solution]

Hello @marting,

I have forwarded this over to our product management team again for them to review and take into consideration with future launches.

As a possible work around: Device control, including outlet control and rack access control, are both available via SOAP API and RestAPI (8.1 and newer only).  You could use one of these options to build a small web app that would allow you to view alarms and control outlets from a web API as a work around until larger improvements to the web interface occur.

Regards,

Cory

[marting]

Doing the 6-month check-in to see if there might be any updates on this getting added to the browser-based UI?

I know the API is an option but I don't have spare cycles to work that and really thinking this should be included in the interface regardless of the API option.

[Cory_McDonald]

Hi @marting, I don't have any updates on this matter, but I did confirm that product management is still aware of your need for the feature to ease your workflow. Regards, Cory