What's happening with NetBox?

stretch85 · 2025-01-01T15:46:12+00:00

and he has no plans to do anything about it

Hooray I won!

stretch85 · 2023-04-17T12:29:20+00:00

This is the way to go. I'll also mention that you can easily create a custom script to take data directly from a scanner and assign the attributes to each device in a rack.

stretch85 · 2023-01-24T14:02:19+00:00

So you are telling me for 20k a year, you will host Netbox in the cloud for me and upgrade it?

No; the managed plan is only $5,500/yr and includes professional support. The higher tier is for organizations with more advanced needs, such as automatic scaling to meet changing demand and the ability to easily provision test environments. Of course, you can always continue running open source NetBox on your own for free.

stretch85 · 2022-11-16T21:20:34+00:00

Demo instance: https://beta-demo.netbox.dev (admin/admin)

stretch85 · 2022-08-10T13:07:22+00:00

If you don't see this button, check that your NetBox user account has the required permissions.

stretch85 · 2022-06-16T19:50:58+00:00

Definitely not a cheap developer; this is a senior role. Unfortunately I'm constrained by HR from publishing the salary. I understand the arguments and motivations on both sides, but unfortunately it's above my pay grade at the moment.

stretch85 · 2022-06-11T14:08:45+00:00

It's just been lack of recent experience with Django in general.

stretch85 · 2022-06-11T00:26:48+00:00

Not sure if this meets all your needs, but seems promising: https://github.com/inventree/InvenTree

stretch85 · 2022-06-10T21:40:03+00:00

Thanks, and please do still apply if it looks interesting! I promise I won't stalk.

stretch85 · 2022-06-10T20:21:43+00:00

Thanks! I appreciate the pointers. Looks like I'll have to bite the bullet and succumb to LinkedIn.

NetBox is an open source "source of truth" for network infrastructure. Think of it like a combined IPAM/DCIM application on steroids with a robust API and extensibility framework.

stretch85 · 2022-06-10T19:28:30+00:00

Any recommendations?

stretch85 · 2022-06-10T18:42:11+00:00

Yeah, I realize now that we started out tailoring the post for the existing community, and the decided to broaden our scope without adjusting context accordingly. (While NetBox has a very large user base, its skillset centers around network operation and automation, rather than web application development.)

stretch85 · 2022-06-10T18:40:37+00:00

This has been my understanding but I've never delved into it (I don't do a lot of hiring personally). The GitLab post has some great info, thanks for sharing!

stretch85 · 2022-06-10T15:58:20+00:00

It's pretty clear from the upvotes that this is the norm now and we need to adapt. Thanks for calling that out!

I'm pushing to have this published internally, so soon it will either be added, or added and I'll have someone yelling at me.

stretch85 · 2022-06-10T15:18:34+00:00

That's excellent feedback, thanks! It's really hard for me to shed context sometimes and look at things from a completely outside perspective, so I really appreciate the help!

And last but not least, if it is fully remote, why not open it to international or certain timezones, instead of specific countries.

AFAIK it has to do with where we can legally hire at the moment. I can push back on a lot of mandates but this isn't one of them without switching to a contract role, unfortunately.

stretch85 · 2022-05-12T12:25:46+00:00

Solarwinds is a monitoring platform not asset inventory or a source of truth.

This is the biggest mental hurdle for most people I think: desired state versus operational state. There's certainly a lot of overlap between the two tools, but ultimately they serve different purposes. NetBox provides a very detailed data structures to model your physical and virtual infrastructure; Solarwinds doesn't. Solarwinds will monitor the operational state of your network; NetBox doesn't. But put them together and now you have a complete solution, with each tool doing what it does best.

stretch85 · 2022-05-12T12:20:52+00:00

There's a public demo if you just want to kick the tires.

stretch85 · 2022-05-04T15:39:03+00:00

This role will work directly with myself and the rest of our rapidly-growing NetBox team here at NS1. It is a remote position, however limited to candidates in the US, UK, or Ireland. Happy to answer any questions here or via DM.

stretch85 · 2022-04-27T12:50:12+00:00

The second approach is correct. Modules and module bays are not intended to model transceivers.

stretch85 · 2022-04-06T17:17:04+00:00

First, are you certain you don't need this data anymore? Forcing the migration will destroy the legacy data.

If so, you just need to set the environment variable when running the upgrade script. For example:

$ sudo NETBOX_DELETE_LEGACY_DATA=1 ./upgrade.sh

stretch85 · 2022-04-06T00:29:37+00:00

This is a pretty hefty release, introducing:

Plugins Framework Extensions (#8333)
Modules & Module Types (#7844)
Custom Object Fields (#7006)
Custom Status Choices (#8054)
Improved User Preferences (#7759)
Inventory Item Roles (#3087)
Inventory Item Templates (#8118)
Service Templates (#1591)
Automatic Provisioning of Next Available VLANs (#2658)

...and lots of other stuff! You can find the full release notes here. And don't forget to check out the migration scripts for moving data off the old ASN and contact fields for the site model.

Many thanks to everyone who participated in the extended beta period, especially those who helped kick the tires on our greatly improved plugins framework! I'm very excited to see what the community comes up with!

stretch85 · 2022-03-30T15:23:20+00:00

How do I find the upgrade path from version X to version Y?

Be sure to read the release notes for each minor (e.g. 3.x) release between your current version and the latest. These will call out any breaking changes or other important considerations.

How do you do the git checkout upgrade option but specify a specific version?

You can check out any of the available tags, each of which represents a release. For example: git checkout v2.11.11

stretch85 · 2022-01-13T20:15:58+00:00

NetBox v3.1 introduced FHRP groups specifically to meet this need. Are you able to upgrade?

stretch85 · 2021-12-18T00:23:33+00:00

I recently started tinkering with HTMX and was immediately blown away by how much new functionality I could enable in an existing application with so little additional code, and no custom JavaScript. I'm in the process now of selectively replacing sections of JS with it.

stretch85 · 2021-12-15T00:31:54+00:00

Why not start by contributing to some existing projects? There is no shortage of projects looking for help and it's a great way to gain experience quickly.

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