The netbox-serv project integrates RackHD hardware management and orchestration services with DigitalOcean's netbox DCIM/IPAM stack.

The netbox-serv runs as a per-site process- for each running service instance manages a site.

• Recommended to setup a virtual environment using python-virtualenv:

virtual-env .venv
source .venv/bin/activate

• Install required python package dependencies:

pip install -r requirements.txt

• To get program parameters run:

python app.py --help

optional arguments:
  -h, --help           show this help message and exit
  --config CONFIG
  --site SITE
  --slug SLUG
  --tenant TENANT
  --facility FACILITY
  --asn ASN
  --physical PHYSICAL
  --shipping SHIPPING
  --comments COMMENTS

The --site argument is required.

• Start the service: python app.py --site=<your site name>

Netbox-serv will start, create a netbox site and discover all running RackHD services advertising on the network. For each RackHD service a corresponding netbox rack will be created. Each rack will be populated with existing nodes (switches, compute, pdu) and spawn AMQP listeners to listen/add new discovered nodes.

• Service options can be changed by modifying the config/config.ini (or specifying a custom config.ini using the --config option).

LOGLEVEL = WARNING
NETBOX_HOST = localhost
NETBOX_PORT = 80
NETBOX_PORT_AUTH = 443
NETBOX_USER = admin
NETBOX_PASS = admin
NETBOX_VERIFY_SSL = False
NETBOX_DEBUG = False

python app.py --config=/home/me/myconfig.ini