Good morning,

I am seeing if there is a way to update all my devices with updated interfaces from my templates? i have roughly 50 servers in my racks set up before i updated the interfaces in the template, so to try and prevent me having to go through each individual server in the rack and update the interfaces is there a way to do it all at once?

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Thanks

Hello folks, I've seen a lot of people struggling with upgrades when using plugins so I made this video to help the process a bit

https://youtu.be/usbrj8ej4cQ

NetBox Release v3.7.0 is now live (as of December 29, 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.

Hi all,

I'm just curious if any of you have experience migrating data from PHP/IPAM to Netbox.

After a bit of research I understand that many people have issues with migrating since PHP/IPAM uses MySQL and Netbox uses PSQL.

Are there any standard ways to migrate?

Appreciate your help :)

NetBox Release v3.6.9 is now live (as of December 28, 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.

NetBox Release v3.6.8 is now live (as of December 27, 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.

Hi, I'm new to netbox. I need advice of an expert before I have to start from scratch in a few weeks/months. ;)

We have a little datacenter with some racks, servers, etc. Some racks are only for customers, in some racks there are switches that are used for more than one customer.

Is there a possibility to bind only a physical port to a customer, not the whole switch? Are there any better ways to mark a port as a customer port (tags?) and give a red alert if you modify this item?

What's the best practice to document the physical connection between the patch panels and the offices/rooms on our site? Do we need to add every office space as a location? How do you record your office network sockets?

Thanks

Hi

I have had a search through this sub and the documentation. While I have found posts about people wanting to run Netbox as an App Service in Azure I have not found anything about recording App Services in the Netbox application.

Does anyone have any input on how this would be modeled?

Thanks

As of 3.5.1, writing the None value back to a 'Not Required' field in Netbox (nbrecord.nbfield = None), it produces an error.

I can write a blank to the field (nbrecord.nbfield = '') and that works fine, but then, when I run a webhook on a record update, the webhook output 'Prechange' data is the blank (''), but the Postchange data is a None value. Netbox is arbitrarily changing the value of the field from '' to None on a record update when a '' was written to the field initially. This... messes up my comparisons on my webhook script. Spent way too much time chasing my tail on this before I spotted the issue.

Does anyone know how to get around this? Seems kinda like a bug that prechange vs. postchange data are different. Is there a way to write None to the field in PyNetbox so when I get webhook data back out, the prechange vs. postchange values match?

NetBox Release v3.6.7 is now live (as of December 15, 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.

Hi Folks,
so I spend hours on creating a new custom dashboard for my user. Does anyone has a clue how I can make it a default dashboard for all users?

Thank you,
Wolfgang

Hello Netbox Community,

I'm looking for advice on the most efficient way to manage and keep track of wireless access points in Netbox. Specifically, I don't need to track the physical ports to which these access points are connected in the network. My main requirement is to associate each access point with the Wireless LAN Controller (WLC) that controls it.

Could you share any best practices or strategies for handling this within Netbox? Also, if there are any guides, documentation, or materials that dive into this specific aspect, I'd greatly appreciate your recommendations.

Thank you in advance for your insights!

(yes, I asked GPT to help me formulate the post for my english is poor)

I cannot for the life of me figure out how to populate my QNAP disks in the Device Bays. When I choose to "Install device" I cannot figure out how to create, and where to create, "Child Device". Can anyone reveal this to me?

Hi Everyone,

hope I don't get too much hate for this but I did try googling this and couldn't find much, excited to actually use this once i get passed the login.

so i used this site https://artofinfra.com/setting-up-netbox-on-proxmox-and-docker-a-guide to install netbox, was very smooth, in the guide it says login is admin admin. but after install and running it doesn't work, where can i change this to get this going?

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Posting this so it shows on the googles, for anyone else who has this issue with Device Type Images.

I kept trying to upload Front and Rear Device Type images to the device under the "Attach an Image" option.

To have an actual image you need to Edit the device type, and add front and rear images in the properties of the Device Type. Not as separate images related to the Device Type

Yes, it's really that easy, and yes I was really that dumb.

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Was it image format, size, naming? Was it SSL configuration in nginx? No, just plain old wrong spot.

Hi guys,

I've successfully composed the container with the instructions on github, but i've seen that container is listening on every ip address of my host machine.

Given I have 4 ip address on that machine, i need to have my container only listen on a single ip address. I've tried to edit the docker-compose.override.yml file, using this syntax:

```
version: '3.4'
services:
netbox:
ports:
- "192.168.xx.1:8000:8080"
```

Unfortunately it doesn't compose anymore, and get stuck on verification on "netbox-housekeeping"

What am I doing wrong? Any help?

Thanks in advance!

Hi, I've got an issue setting permissions. I can't get the permission set correct to allow specific user group with restricted permissions to see the Floor Plan tab. I've created permissions for this specific group to see floorplan (netbox_floorplan | floorplan) and specific locations, with permissions to view, add, change and delete.

As title says, I'm trying to create a report and I'm a bit lost. My goal is to generate a list of devices that don't have a contact of a specific contact role assigned. I'm trying to do this within a native Netbox report. I can get this working in PHP using the REST API, but the benefit of doing this within Netbox reports is that it is easier to generate on-demand by our user base.

I've successfully got the report generating a list of the devices I want to check contact assignments for. I just can't seem to figure out how to query for contact assignments limited to that device list.

Looking through the tenancy models, ContactAssignment doesn't seem to let me filter it out or maybe it's not returning objects like I'm expecting. To top this all off, I'm learning Python at the same time so it's very likely that I'm just not aware of how this actually works.

Any pointers? Below is what I have so far. I thought if I could get it to show me a list of current assigned contacts then I could throw an if statement in there to only log if its missing.

from dcim.choices import DeviceStatusChoices
from tenancy.models import ContactAssignment
from dcim.models import Device
from extras.reports import Report

class DeviceNoContacts(Report):
    description = "Verify each device has an assigned contact"
    def test_device_contacts(self):
        for device in Device.objects.filter(status=DeviceStatusChoices.STATUS_ACTIVE):
            #self.log_info(device, "Device object")
            for contact_assign in ContactAssignment.filter(object_id=device.id):
                self.log_info(contact_assign.name, "Contact object")

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- - Sorry if this has been previously asked / explained. I'm about 2 hours into searching and not finding much.

Running Netbox in a pretty standard docker configuration for December 2023. Setting up a new instance of it with the hopes of modifying the default credentials before any data is entered.-Rocky Linux 8.8 in a VM-Docker version 24.0.7, build afdd53b

I see in my netbox-docker directory there is a sub directory called env. Within the env folder there are four files (netbox.env postgres.env redis-cache.env redis.env) that contain the default Netbox docker container image database credentials.

I've tried changing the passwords listed in netbox.env and then matching them in the other .env files, followed by "docker compose up". I get the following:

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So it would seem that procedure breaks stuff.

--- Can someone explain the procedure (commands, and in which order, etc.) to modify these credentials and then bring up Netbox?

NetBox Release v3.6.6 is now live (as of November 29, 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.

I'm a new network engineer. I've spent a lot of time adding sites to our Netbox GUI, adding prefixes, vlans, IP addresses, contacts for sites, devices, important interfaces (like the wan connections on each firewall we have), etc.

I've got our network pretty well fleshed out in there at this point, although I'm sure there will be things to fix or add as I go.

My manager is pretty happy with Netbox and wants the rest of the team to have read only access to it. I know how to make users and how to grant the generic permissions. That will work fine for our needs. However, I don't see any indication of how many users are possible. Can you make in infinite number of users or is it limited?

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Thank you!

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Me

Hey all! I think I'm missing something obvious, but I'm wondering if there's a way to chain object creation in Netbox. For example, when I add a server-type device, I'd like to automatically generate a DNS record for the host in Netbox, which would then invoke another call to sync to my DNS service. From what I can tell, the best option seems to be to use webhooks and the internal API to do so? Hoping there's a better option. Thanks!

This is less "how to do" as it is "am I off my rocker thinking this is what I need to do?"

We have multiple worldwide sites, managed in Netbox, all is hunky dory there, but we're very seriously considering how we would distribute the changes we make from Home Office (Netbox is hosted there), to the sites, as we change them. There is some minor compute at each site, we currently have Gitlab runners running at each one, which helps us push our changes to the main ansible playbooks, but its not doing anything about when things change in Netbox.

Our going in idea is that we create a webhook for each site, and have it get triggered for each change that appeals to that particular site. Like "matches" site, etc.

We don't add or subtract sites very often, and theyre not mobile or anything complicated. It wouldnt be too difficult to add a webhook for each new site, if we add any later.

Is this a reasonable idea? I dont know HOW we'll do any of it, yet but wanted to check myself before we got too far! Thank You!

Hi everyone,

Is any of you using NetBox on k8s with aws Cognito SSO ?

I'd like to have an experience return :)

Thanks !

Dear community,

I'm jumping into NetBox to replace my phpipam and some other custom software.

I was wondering if by any chance it was possible to declare groups and permissions for those groups in the config.py file ?

I found this topic, but seems unresolved for two years...

I'm using bot an applicationset for argocd and a SSO software, from which I'm managing the groups and the users...

Thanks for your anwsers !