Ability to search for MAC Address in new Global search

NetBox version

v3.4-beta1

Feature type

New functionality

Proposed functionality

Please add the ability to search for MAC addresses. I thought this new global search was supposed to be able to search for anything within NetBox. Or maybe I've got it wrong, but I was really looking forward to being able to search for any value (either full or partial match) and have at least something returned.

If you search for a mac address (in any of the allowed formats, 00112233ffaa, 00:11:22:33:ff:aa, 00-11-22-33-ff-aa) you return zero results.
I have added several MAC addresses to virtual machine interfaces as a test. Then I search for this MAC's in the search box at the top. I always get zero results.

Use case

the ability to search for a MAC address is a huge time saver to find a device/interface.

Database changes

Honestly I'm unsure of what it takes in the database to allow this feature. As I understand it, the new search is a rebuild of the search function.

External dependencies

none that I am aware of.

[kkthxbye-code]

It think this makes sense and is probably an oversight, as the normal Interface model has MAC-address added to its search index.

For rererence this is the current SearchIndex for VirtualizationInterface:

netbox/netbox/virtualization/search.py

Lines 46 to 51 in 2ad1db0

	class VMInterfaceIndex(SearchIndex):
	model = models.VMInterface
	fields = (
	('name', 100),
	('description', 500),
	)

[jeremystretch]

Please add the ability to search for MAC addresses.

This already exists for device interfaces in v3.4-beta1, however it is missing for VM interfaces as @kkthxbye-code notes above. Note that you'll need to search using NetBox's canonical MAC address form (XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX).

Will partial match work? any subset of the canonical MAC ?
11:22:AA:BB:DD:EE

11:22, or BB:DD, or DD:EE ?