This post is a long winded way of telling you how you can select multiple sites to be ingested into Netbox easily so that the amount of data being added to Netbox is small enough to not overload it. The IP Fabric Netbox plugin allows input and comparison of data between the two systems. It... Continue Reading →
Netbox – Bulk Deletion of an object element
This post describes how to delete an element (field) from every object in Netbox. It uses the example of deleting the weight field from device types. There may be a reason why a netbox admin would need to remove every example of a field from a type of netbox object. For example a custom field... Continue Reading →
IP Fabric Netbox Plugin vs Device Library Import (UPDATED)
The very talented Alex Gittings from IP Fabric has helped me to understand how to get around the capitalisation issue. In the transform maps you can create a jinja2 template that capitalises a field. So if applied in the device - DCIM|manufacturer map, with source field as vendor and target field as name, it will... Continue Reading →
Renaming Interfaces in bulk in Netbox
Netbox has a handy feature in the interface section that permits the bulk edit of interface names. This is really handy when you have switch stacks and want the name to represent the full port name so the CLI and netbox agree. In my example I have member 2 of a stack. When created ports... Continue Reading →
Netbox Scripts – Getting Started
An introduction to Netbox's script feature including a basic sample.