ipfabric_nornir

IP Fabric

IP Fabric is a vendor-neutral network assurance platform that automates the holistic discovery, verification, visualization, and documentation of large-scale enterprise networks, reducing the associated costs and required resources whilst improving security and efficiency.

It supports your engineering and operations teams, underpinning migration and transformation projects. IP Fabric will revolutionize how you approach network visibility and assurance, security assurance, automation, multi-cloud networking, and trouble resolution.

Integrations or scripts should not be installed directly on the IP Fabric VM unless directly communicated from the IP Fabric Support or Solution Architect teams. Any action on the Command-Line Interface (CLI) using the root, osadmin, or autoboss account may cause irreversible, detrimental changes to the product and can render the system unusable.

Special Thanks

This project is an IP Fabric officially supported fork of nornir_ipfabric by routetonull. Thank you for your work!

Install

The recommended way to install ipfabric_nornir is via pip

pip install ipfabric_nornir

Requirements

An instance of IP Fabric is required to collect information.

Example usage

Setup

Using environment variables

Set environment vars to provide url and credentials to connect to the IP Fabric server

export IPF_URL=https://ipfabric.local
export IPF_TOKEN=myToken

# Or Username and Password
export IPF_USER=admin
export IPF_PASSWORD=mySecretPassword

Using .env file

The easiest way to use this package is with a .env file. You can copy the sample and edit it with your environment variables.

cp sample.env .env

This contains the following variables which can also be set as environment variables instead of a .env file.

IPF_URL="https://demo3.ipfabric.io"
IPF_TOKEN=TOKEN
IPF_VERIFY=true

Or if using Username/Password:

IPF_URL="https://demo3.ipfabric.io"
IPF_USERNAME=USER
IPF_PASSWORD=PASS

Running

from nornir import InitNornir
nr = InitNornir(inventory={"plugin": "IPFabricInventory"})

Using the InitNornir function

Init

from nornir import InitNornir
nr = InitNornir(
    inventory={
        "plugin": "IPFabricInventory",
        "options": {
            "base_url": "https://ipfabric.local",
            "token": "Token",  # or "username":"admin", "password":"mySecretPassword",
            "verify": True,
            "platform_map": "netmiko",  # "netmiko" (Default), "napalm", or "genie",
            "default": {"username": "device_username", "password": "device_password"},
        },
    },
)

Using the Nornir configuration file

File config.yaml

---
inventory:
  plugin: IPFInventory
  options:
    base_url: "https://ipfabric.local"
    token: "TOKEN"
    # username: "admin"
    # password: "mySecretPassword"
    verify: true
    platform_map: netmiko  # "netmiko", "napalm", or "genie"
    default:
      username: 'device_username'
      password: 'device_password'

Usage:

from nornir import InitNornir
nr = InitNornir(config_file="config.yaml", inventory={"plugin": "IPFabricInventory"})