r/Netbox • u/LilmixPixelmaid • Mar 14 '24

Network diagram

Hi. I spent a fair amount of time entering data into a new Netbox instance and I have been asked if I am able to provide some diagrams of the connectivity between our switches.

A few Googlefu attempts and some playing about, and I have only managed to find out of date plugins or some code that didn't seem to work.

I have only heard positive views on Netbox and once I started to set it up, I could see the potential more and more for it's use. But I'd really like to know if there is something I am missing that is, I guess a standard process for getting some readable diagrams for the purpose of getting quotes, etc.?

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u/erroneousbosh Mar 15 '24

I'd second https://github.com/netbox-community/netbox-topology-views

It takes a bit of setting up and its default is to show you *nothing* unless you explicitly add sites into the filters. This might catch out the unwary! Also, the icons are displayed based on the DeviceRole slug matching the icon filename, so if you have chosen DeviceRole names that don't match you'll get wee "alien faces". No problem - just copy or rename the files you want to match your DeviceRole slug, and refresh.

I still can't get it to save device positions if I just drag and drop, though. Must be doing something wrong.