MAC create with

Create MAC with extracts first 12 hexadecimal characters from input string and normalizes them as a MAC address. It is not necessary to have a continuous sequence of characters. Non hexadecimal characters are skipped.

Therefore, retyping can be used on any representations of mac addresses.

The block accepts any string value as an input (on right side) and returns internal data type representing a MAC address.

In case the value can’t be retyped to a mac address, the type with default address of 000000000000 is returned.

Block XML representation

XML representation of empty mac_create block

<xml xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
  <block type="mac_create"/>
</xml>

<xml xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
  <block type="mac_create">
    <value name="VALUE">
      <block type="text">
        <field name="TEXT">00:00:00:00:00:00</field>
      </block>
    </value>
  </block>
</xml>

Example of visual representation

Block "Create MAC with" — Block “Create MAC with”

Example of "Create MAC with" block — Example of “Create MAC with” block

Example of block usage

Block is used on the “set mac_datatype to” row in the example:

Key “mac” is loaded from the “item” dictionary.
Value is transmitted to the “create MAC with” block.
Output is variable “mac_datatype” with data type MAC, containing information about manufacturer and normalized value.

Input data

{
  "user": "administrator",
  "mac" : "00:00:00:00:00:11"
}

Processing result

Results of "Create MAC with" block — Results of “Create MAC with” block