NetBox Plugin Ideas
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Create multiple cables of the same type that all go from Device A to Device B. Selecting which ports/interfaces to use is done through a visual interface.
Considerations:
All cables created in the same operation will be of the same type (including Status, Tenant, Color and Length)
Should support quick selection of all odd/even ports on one device to facilitate cable creation between a 48 port switch and a neighboring 24 port patch panel
Should support selecting ports that are not directly sequential, for instance: Gi0/0/1, Gi0/0/5-Gi0/0/20, Gi0/0/24.
Cables will be created sequentially based on the name/number of the port, starting with the lowest.
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Use case
This would reduce the amount of time and steps required to create multiple cables between two devices in Netbox, such as between a switch and a patch panel. |
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Open items
How to visualize the ports/interfaces of each device will need to be discussed. Having a unique view per Device Type seems excessive, so perhaps a standard view is best, with ports/interfaces sorted as normal. Should the plugin support selecting the ports through a text interface? Does cable creation based on the sequence of ports/interfaces make sense in cases with non-standard port names? |
Just this year, I have imported several thousand connections using excel to generate the csv to import into netbox. It takes maybe 5 minutes and several 144c PPs can be mapped correctly.
I use this custom script to connect multiple cables between patch panels etc.
https://github.com/netbox-community/customizations/blob/master/scripts/multi_connect.py