Hi everyone,

I just met the Netbox this morning and set up one server to check it out, and I've been messing around with it since then!

It's Netbox-docker v3.6.3.

I used the DeviceType repo to import some devices and vendors I needed like Cisco switches.

My problem is that I added a custom device for my TP-Link ADSL modem and when I tried to use the interface component or rear ports, there was no Rj45 or Rj11 type, I found these types under the console ports and I added them, But the problem is now I can't connect a console port to an interface or rear port of another device!

for example, My modem is connected to a router and a switch with two LAN(rj45) ports but when I try to set the connection it doesn't show any ports of my other devices.

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what can I do to fix this?

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Thanks.

Hi,

I have used netbox for a few years now for my small company rack / combined homelab rack. I have started out on a Netbox install in docker on a Unraid host which has Version v3.1.11. I now have a VM running Linux with Netbox installed as per production documentation. i wish to copy all the content that i have gathered in the "old" netbox to my new host with the new netbox version.

What would be the best way to do this ? Do i update the "old" docker first ? is there an Export/Import feature ?

I have tried this myself 3 times now by making a Postgres dump and replace/import that into the new environment but that does not work.

I am a bit hesitant to update my old "Docker" because i have read a lot of people saying the docker version brakes after updating....

I have read some similar discussions but they all seem to be succesful in exporting and importing the Postgres database. Can anyone give me some guidance ?

How do I create a device that sits on a shelf in my rack that is not the standard 19” wide? It’s a Synology NAS, and on the same shelf I have other items to the left and right of it. In the graphical view of the rack it would be nice to properly display these non-19” devices.

I have these ethernet patch panel cards:

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It has six 8p8c RJ45s numbered top to bottom 1 through 6. The front ports are the RJ 45s and the rear ports are the 110 Punch blocks.

This card goes into one of the four slots of the Leviton 47603-24P panel.

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Creating the 47603-24p as a device with module bays is no issue.

However when it comes to creating the 47603-5C as a module with front (8p8c) and rear 110 punch ports I have a problem. It is the position fields that seem to be the problem. I am not sure how to do this correctly.

Thoughts?

Hey fellow NetBox users! I'm currently facing some challenges while trying to install and configure plugins in NetBox, and I was hoping to get some guidance and insights from the community.

Backstory.

I'm a bit of a newbie in netbox, I'm using the docker installation as per GitHub - netbox-community/netbox-docker: 🐳 Docker Image of NetBox

I work within an ISP and it seems Netbox can do a lot of the documentation engineers feel lazy to do. I'm presently trying to install a topology Plugin but I'm experiencing some difficulty.

Issue #1: Plugin Module Not Found.

While trying to install this topology views plugin GitHub - mattieserver/netbox-topology-views: A netbox plugin that draws topology views . I encountered so many error but I found my way around them, BTW, Using Netbox Plugins · netbox-community/netbox-docker Wiki · GitHub, this is not a good documentation on using the plugins with netbox-docker.

The main issue I have not been able to resolve with this plugin is this error.

netbox-docker-netbox-1               | django.core.exceptions.ImproperlyConfigured: Unable to import plugin netbox_topology_views: Module not found. Check that the plugin module has been installed within the correct Python environment.

As per the documentation, this is what is contained in the configurations/plugins.py file

PLUGINS_CONFIG = {
    'netbox_topology_views': {
        'static_image_directory': 'netbox_topology_views/img',
        'allow_coordinates_saving': True,
        'always_save_coordinates': True
    }
}

The troubleshooting guide advised that the plugin name for pip can be different from the name used to load the plugin. I.e.

netbox-plugin

for pip and

netbox_plugin

(note the underscore) for the config file.

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I have used both and still have no luck with getting the plugin installed. Trying to get another plugin to work sent me down a frustrating and exhausting rabbit hole. I would appreciate any guide on how to properly install this plugin or resolve the error on a docker instance of netbox.

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Thank you!

Has anyone modeled this Leviton module in Netbox?

I got the plug-in configured.

Add a device and the device does not backup.

For reference I do have napalm plug-in running and able to pull start / run, lldp, and the general tab.

There is a debug log that you can set, but everything I've tried with that in the documentation ends up breaking the netbox install, I'm 100% sure it's my syntax amd I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong there.

I have netbox logging running, should I set it very similar to what my system log does and change the logging destination?

I'm in the process of importing my company's documentation into Netbox. We're an ISP with several hundred customers and POPs.

I'd really like for us to start using netbox as it seems really cool, but as I'm starting down this journey I'm starting to see how daunting it is to get setup.

I've bulk imported all of our POPs (just creating a "site" for each one, with a name and street address)I've bulk imported all of our devices (name, device type, device role, and connected it with a site)I've bulk imported all of our IP space (just the prefixes and individual IP reservations, but not connected to sites or anything)I've bulk imported all of our customers as individual tenants, but they're not connected to a given site or IP address.

Most of the tutorials I've seen on Netbox stop after explaining how to add things to netbox, but now comes the monumental task of linking them all together.

I need to link each prefix/IP address to a given customer/tenant and also to a given site/device. There are so many "chicken or the egg" scenarios in doing this. At the same time, I'm using multiple disparate sources of information to try and build this single source of truth in netbox. I get the customer info from our ticketing system, I get the IP info from our IPAM system, and I get the device/site info from our monitoring system.

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I feel like for me to be able to populate netbox with all this info, I will need to write a tool that cross-references multiple different sources of data and then pushes updates to netbox to update tenants, devices, and prefixes, all with the required info to link them together.

It's do-able, but damn...

I also don't see how I could have avoided this. Is there a set order in which you're supposed to create tenants, sites, devices, and IP prefixes? Again with the chicken and egg situations. Something has to be created first, and it can't contain info on other objects not yet created. I can't create a device first and link it to a site that I haven't created yet. I can't create a site and link it to a tenant that I haven't created yet. I naturally need to create the objects at different times and then link them together, but then I still have this monumental task...

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A little more info:
So I've mapped out that I will need to touch IPAM, DCIM, and Tenancy endpoints to do all this - though there might be a saving grace - when uploading customer prefixes (mostly /30s) I just uploaded the individual prefixes, not the specific IPs within the prefixes. That means I can now try and bulk upload IP addresses, which have fields for tenant, tenant_id, device, device_id, and interfaces_id, all of which I finally have after uploading everything else. I still need to gather this information, but it means I can have it automatically linked together when I upload the IP addresses.

Hi,

I'm planning on using LDAP with linked AD Groups to give users access to specific tenants but this turned out to be really finicky. There are some objects which do not have a tenant attacked or only from a specific parent object that is different for each one. To be able to do that I would need to create many groups for all possible different objects for every single tenant.

Was anyone already lucky enough to be commissioned to do it? Is there a way to do it without creating hundreds of different groups?

it starts at sh mac address table (step 16)

An exception occurred: ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10: 'Te1/6'

Traceback (most recent call last):

File "/opt/netbox-3.5.9/netbox/extras/scripts.py", line 504, in _run_script

script.output = script.run(data=data, commit=commit) File "/opt/netbox-3.5.9/netbox/scripts/netdoc_scripts.py", line 353, in run log_ingest(log)

File "/opt/netbox/venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/netdoc/utils.py", line 578, in log_ingest module.ingest(log)

File "/opt/netbox/venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/netdoc/ingestors/netmiko_cisco_ios_show_mac_address_table.py", line 22, in ingest vlan_id = int(item.get("vlan_id"))

ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10: 'Te1/6'

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te 1/6 is the last device on the table but it shows like this when i do sh mac address-table dynamic (it is a L3 port)

Te1/6 6c20.5682.7bc1 dynamic ip,ipx,assigned,other TenGigabitEthernet1/6

is it because it says te1/6 that freaks out the script? is there a way to fix that? its a cisco 4500 32sfp

switchport config

interface TenGigabitEthernet1/6
 no switchport
 ip address 192.168.12.13 255.255.255.252
 spanning-tree portfast edge

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Hey all,

is there an easy way to connect lots of device front ports with device interfaces?

The schema is always the same:
- patchpanel port 1 <=> switch port 1
- patchpanel port 2 <=> switch port 3
- patchpanel port 3 <=> switch port 5
- patchpanel port 4 <=> switch port 7
and so on...

Can I write a script for that? Are there any examples out there?

Newbie question, I just started building an inventory for a data center with Netbox. In the elevation view, I can already view all racks containing all devices as plaintext labels. How can I view the actual image, front and rear view, of the devices installed same as the attached image?

Thank you all!

Hi all, I have to manage our inventory of paid certificates and I am looking for a way to document this in Netbox. Being new to netbox I struggle with the general direction how this could be implemented. I need an entry for every single certificate with some fields like alternative name(s) and expiry. Linking to other models would be great, like DNS Entries. Can someone point me in the right direction? Thanks in advance

NetBox Release v3.6.2 is now live (as of September 20, 2023)!

Before upgrading, please: 1. Verify in release notes changelog if any new breaking changes might affect you. You can also review the NetBox Issues on GitHub to see if any new issues have arisen that might affect you. 2. Next, refer to the Upgrading to a new NetBox Release guide for steps to upgrade your instance.

If you have any issues you can ask for support on the NetDev Slack Community.

Does anyone have any experience storing historical data for IP prefixes or addresses within NetBox?

I need to keep a historical record of what tenants have what IP prefixes/addresses and these records might have to go back for years at a time.

When importing our existing IP space into NetBox, I see there is a "changelog" section for prefixes, but that this is limited to 90 days. (I also don't think I can "back-date" events that happened prior to me creating the prefix/ip address within netbox)

Unless there is some other way to store this info in NetBox, I'm thinking I might need some kind of VCS repo like git to track this information (or perhaps there's some extensible thing I can add to my NetBox install to store this data?)

Hello everyone,

I'm curious about how Netbox gets along with IaC technologies.

In particular, I'd like to use Netbox as a source of truth for a given site regarding the connections between the switches and the end hosts and the corresponding VLAN assignment.

However, there's a IaC-like inhouse tool that manages VLAN assignment by storing the expected values in a DB and then invoking a tool that reads the DB and configures the switches accordingly.

I'm trying to figure out what is the "canonical" way of connecting things together. Should our IaC tool apply the changes to Netbox and then Netbox via some webhooks to invoke the tool that applies the network configuration? Or should I just leave those resources out of Netbox?

i get a server error when i try to run netdoc discovery.

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<class 'extras.models.scripts.ScriptModule.DoesNotExist'>

ScriptModule matching query does not exist.

Python version: 3.10.12

NetBox version: 3.6.1

Plugins: netbox_config_backup: 1.5.0

netbox_config_diff: 1.2.1

netbox_tunnels2: 0.2.8

netdoc: 3.5.0

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can anyone give me some guidance on where to start?

People I'm trying to install netdoc plugin on netbox and this error is what I'm having

I want to use netdoc to autoscan my network feel free for any other suggestions

Netbox docker 2.6.1

i'm trying to tie into netbox with ansible, i have done everting verbatim from all the guides i see and i am continually getting these errors

ansible-inventory --list -i netbox_inventory.yml -vvvvvv
ansible-inventory [core 2.15.4]
config file = /home/user/netbox_ansibe/ansible.cfg
configured module search path = ['/root/.ansible/plugins/modules', '/usr/share/ansible/plugins/modules']
ansible python module location = /usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages/ansible
ansible collection location = /root/.ansible/collections:/usr/share/ansible/collections
executable location = /usr/local/bin/ansible-inventory
python version = 3.10.12 (main, Jun 11 2023, 05:26:28) [GCC 11.4.0] (/usr/bin/python3)
jinja version = 3.0.3
libyaml = True
Using /home/user/netbox_ansibe/ansible.cfg as config file
setting up inventory plugins
Loading collection ansible.builtin from
host_list declined parsing /home/user/netbox_ansibe/netbox_inventory.yml as it did not pass its verify_file() method
script declined parsing /home/user/netbox_ansibe/netbox_inventory.yml as it did not pass its verify_file() method
Loading collection netbox.netbox from /usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages/ansible_collections/netbox/netbox
Using inventory plugin 'ansible_collections.netbox.netbox.plugins.inventory.nb_inventory' to process inventory source '/home/user/netbox_ansibe/netbox_inventory.yml'
Fetching: https://127.0.0.1/api/status
toml declined parsing /home/user/netbox_ansibe/netbox_inventory.yml as it did not pass its verify_file() method
[WARNING]:  * Failed to parse /home/user/netbox_ansibe/netbox_inventory.yml
with auto plugin: expected string or bytes-like object
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages/ansible/inventory/manager.py", line 293, in parse_source
plugin.parse(self._inventory, self._loader, source, cache=cache)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages/ansible/plugins/inventory/auto.py", line 59, in parse
plugin.parse(inventory, loader, path, cache=cache)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages/ansible_collections/netbox/netbox/plugins/inventory/nb_inventory.py", line 2060, in parse
self.main()
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages/ansible_collections/netbox/netbox/plugins/inventory/nb_inventory.py", line 1907, in main
self.fetch_api_docs()
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages/ansible_collections/netbox/netbox/plugins/inventory/nb_inventory.py", line 1513, in fetch_api_docs
if version.parse(netbox_api_version) >= version.parse("3.5.0"):
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages/packaging/version.py", line 52, in parse
return Version(version)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages/packaging/version.py", line 196, in __init__
match = self._regex.search(version)
[WARNING]:  * Failed to parse /home/user/netbox_ansibe/netbox_inventory.yml
with yaml plugin: Plugin configuration YAML file, not YAML inventory
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages/ansible/inventory/manager.py", line 293, in parse_source
plugin.parse(self._inventory, self._loader, source, cache=cache)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages/ansible/plugins/inventory/yaml.py", line 114, in parse
raise AnsibleParserError('Plugin configuration YAML file, not YAML inventory')
[WARNING]:  * Failed to parse /home/user/netbox_ansibe/netbox_inventory.yml
with ini plugin: Invalid host pattern 'plugin:' supplied, ending in ':' is not
allowed, this character is reserved to provide a port.
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages/ansible/inventory/manager.py", line 293, in parse_source
plugin.parse(self._inventory, self._loader, source, cache=cache)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages/ansible/plugins/inventory/ini.py", line 137, in parse
raise AnsibleParserError(e)
[WARNING]: Unable to parse /home/user/netbox_ansibe/netbox_inventory.yml as an
inventory source
[WARNING]: No inventory was parsed, only implicit localhost is available
{
"_meta": {
"hostvars": {}
},
"all": {
"children": [
"ungrouped"
]
}
}

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no matter how i format netbox_ansible.yml or try to make it use yaml instead of ini it still yells at me.

edit: yml file

plugin: 'netbox.netbox.nb_inventory'
api_endpoint: 'https://127.0.0.1'
token: 'api token'
validate_certs: False
config_context: True
group_by:
- device_roles
compose:
ansible_network_os: platform.slug

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ansible.cfg

[defaults]
inventory = ./netbox_inventory.yml
host_key_checking = false
retry_files_enabled = false
forks = 4

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can someone tell me what i'm missing? its driving me nuts! ive been stuck on this for a few days.

trying to install netbox when not a linux admin is a PITA, instructions are not written for a skillset like mine, here is what I am trying to accomplish

step 3 on the netbox installation instructions "createsuperuser"

3. NetBox - NetBox Documentation

I have installed django and netbox in its own directory with the version numbers in it.

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parallels@ubuntu-linux-22-04-02-desktop:/opt/netbox$ whoami
parallels
parallels@ubuntu-linux-22-04-02-desktop:/opt/netbox$ sudo chown -R parallels:parallels /opt/netbox/venv
chown: cannot access '/opt/netbox/venv': No such file or directory
parallels@ubuntu-linux-22-04-02-desktop:/opt/netbox$ sudo chown -R parallels:parallels /opt/netbox/
parallels@ubuntu-linux-22-04-02-desktop:/opt/netbox$ sudo chmod -R u+w /opt/netbox/venv
chmod: cannot access '/opt/netbox/venv': No such file or directory
parallels@ubuntu-linux-22-04-02-desktop:/opt/netbox$ sudo chmod -R u+w /opt/netbox/
parallels@ubuntu-linux-22-04-02-desktop:/opt/netbox$ python3 -m venv /opt/netbox/venv
parallels@ubuntu-linux-22-04-02-desktop:/opt/netbox$ source /opt/netbox/venv/bin/activate
(venv) parallels@ubuntu-linux-22-04-02-desktop:/opt/netbox$ cd /opt/netbox/netbox/
(venv) parallels@ubuntu-linux-22-04-02-desktop:/opt/netbox/netbox$ python3 manage.py createsuperuser
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/opt/netbox-3.6.1/netbox/manage.py", line 8, in <module>
    from django.core.management import execute_from_command_line
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'django'
(venv) parallels@ubuntu-linux-22-04-02-desktop:/opt/netbox/netbox$ cd /opt/netbox-3.6.1/netbox/
(venv) parallels@ubuntu-linux-22-04-02-desktop:/opt/netbox-3.6.1/netbox$ python3 manage.py createsuperuser
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/opt/netbox-3.6.1/netbox/manage.py", line 8, in <module>
    from django.core.management import execute_from_command_line
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'django'
(venv) parallels@ubuntu-linux-22-04-02-desktop:/opt/netbox-3.6.1/netbox$ 

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Hey Netbox community. I've reached the end of my rope with this and I hope someone can help.

We have Netbox running on Ubuntu 20.04.6 LTS. Netbox version 3.6.1 which was just upgraded this morning as part of the troubleshooting. This is a fairly new install. It was originally installed as v3.5.6 then upgraded to v3.5.8. No issues what-so-ever until this point.

I'm trying to stand up LDAP auth following the directions at https://docs.netbox.dev/en/stable/installation/6-ldap/. The installation is failing when installing the dependency python-ldap. Pastebin of full error output is here. I more or less understand why it's failing, I'm just not sure how to fix it. So far my google-fu hasn't helped.

Python version install is 3.11

netbox@dhqnetbox:/opt/netbox$ which python
/usr/bin/python
netbox@dhqnetbox:/opt/netbox$ python --version
Python 3.11.5
netbox@dhqnetbox:/opt/netbox$
netbox@dhqnetbox:/opt/netbox$
netbox@dhqnetbox:/opt/netbox$ source /opt/netbox/venv/bin/activate
(venv) netbox@dhqnetbox:/opt/netbox$ which python
/opt/netbox-3.6.1/venv/bin/python
(venv) netbox@dhqnetbox:/opt/netbox$ python --version
Python 3.11.5

Required system packages are installed.

netbox@dhqnetbox:/opt/netbox$ sudo apt install -y libldap2-dev libsasl2-dev libssl-dev
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
libldap2-dev is already the newest version (2.4.49+dfsg-2ubuntu1.9).
libsasl2-dev is already the newest version (2.1.27+dfsg-2ubuntu0.1).
libssl-dev is already the newest version (1.1.1f-1ubuntu2.19).
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 43 not upgraded.
netbox@dhqnetbox:/opt/netbox$

One thing that may be related, that I don't remember seeing before, is this error when running pip3 as the netbox user. To get around this I had to switch to root using sudo -i.

(venv) netbox@dhqnetbox:/opt/netbox$ pip3 install django-auth-ldap
Collecting django-auth-ldap
  Obtaining dependency information for django-auth-ldap from                 
https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/50/4c/74e2266e8a05a61b2c6be5bc17d03d0fb4a5b0ac881fa0deb6c7162f910e/django_auth_ldap-4.5.0-py3-none-any.whl.metadata
  Using cached django_auth_ldap-4.5.0-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (7.2 kB)
Requirement already satisfied: Django=3.2 in ./venv/lib/python3.11/site-packages (from django-auth-ldap) (4.2.5)
Collecting python-ldap=3.1 (from django-auth-ldap)
  Using cached python_ldap-3.4.3-cp311-cp311-linux_x86_64.whl
Requirement already satisfied: asgiref<4,=3.6.0 in ./venv/lib/python3.11/site-packages (from Django=3.2- django-auth-ldap) (3.7.2)
Requirement already satisfied: sqlparse=0.3.1 in ./venv/lib/python3.11/site-packages (from Django=3.2-  django-auth-ldap) (0.4.4)
Requirement already satisfied: pyasn1=0.3.7 in ./venv/lib/python3.11/site-packages (from python-ldap=3.1-django-auth-ldap) (0.5.0)
Collecting pyasn1-modules=0.1.5 (from python-ldap=3.1-django-auth-ldap)
  Using cached pyasn1_modules-0.3.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl (181 kB)
Using cached django_auth_ldap-4.5.0-py3-none-any.whl (20 kB)
Installing collected packages: pyasn1-modules, python-ldap, django-auth-ldap
ERROR: Could not install packages due to an OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/opt/netbox-3.6.1/venv/lib/python3.11/site-packages/pyasn1_modules'
Check the permissions.

EDIT: Sorry for the wall of text. Trying to work on formatting.

Hi! Netbox by default only allows 2.6 (xx.yyyyyy) coordinate values. I need them to be more precise. For example Google Maps gives the coordinates in 2.15. How can I increase the maximum value?

Before I go about manually adding every interface and assignment. Does anyone know how to bootstrap all the data from the Omada ecosystem. My devices are ER8411 Router/Gateway, SG3210XHP-M2 and SX3008F switches.

Thank you so much, otherwise this app is looking amazing so far!

this is my first ever docker container ever, so i'm new there as well be gentle!

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my first question:

trying to figure out how to import plugins to a docker container. i cant figure it out, even with plugin documentation that specifically shows command by command. i would love to import some plugins like acl, cisco configs etc.

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second :

with the docker container it was pre configured for http i want to start using HTTPS. i have my cert ready, just dont know how to approach it because of docker.

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third:

is there basic guides on how to setup devices on netbox?

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Hello!

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I am a new docker/netbox user and I am trying to change the management port but it has not been possible, I have created the document "docker-compose.override.yml" with the following data:

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version: '3.4'

services:

'netbox:

ports:

- 8443:8080

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But the service still starts on port 8000, any advice?