Netbox Device Type Import

This library is intended to be your friend and help you import all the device-types defined within the the NetBox Device Type Library Repository.

Tested working with 2.7.8, 2.8.8, 2.9.4

Getting Started

These instructions will get you a copy of the project on your machine to allow you to import the device types you would like without copy and pasting them into the NetBox UI.

Prerequisites

This script is written in python so this must be installed.

Python3
Python PIP

Using the Repo

Cloning the repo

git clone https://github.com/minitriga/Netbox-Device-Type-Library-Import.git

Installing the requirements

cd Netbox-Device-Type-Library-Import
pip install -r requirements.txt

Setting your variables

There are a number of variables that are required when using this script to import device types into your netbox environment.

export NETBOX_URL=http://netbox.company.com
export NETBOX_TOKEN=0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef01234567

Using the script

To use the script simply run the following.

python nb-dt-import.py

This will pull the device-type library from Gitlab and install it into the .repo directory. if this directory is already there it will perform a git pull to update the reposity.

Arguments

This script currently accepts vendors so that only a few vendors are imported into your NetBox Environment.

This can be done the following.

python nb-dt-import.py --vendors apc

--vendors also accepts a list of vendors so that multiple vendors could be imported.

python nb-dt-import.py --vendors apc juniper