Module Inventory Binder

Module Inventory Binder is a plugin for NetBox that facilitates the binding of modules to inventory items. This plugin simplifies the management of relationships between modules and their corresponding inventory items, ensuring better visibility and device management.

Features

• One-to-One Binding: Establish a unique relationship between a module and an inventory item.
• CRUD Operations: Create, read, update, and delete bindings between modules and inventory items.
• Automatic Inventory Item Creation: Automatically creates or links existing inventory items when new modules are added.
• Safe Deletion: Deletes associated inventory items when a module is deleted.
• Integration with NetBox UI: Seamlessly integrates into NetBox's main menu for easy access to binding functionalities.

Requirements

• NetBox version 3.0.0 or higher.
• Python version 3.10.12 or higher.

Version 1.1.0

Fixed a an error that occured during pip installation - setup.py configuration had an error in it

Version 1.2.0

Fixed views.py which used old names for templates

Version 1.3.0

Fixed problem where deleting binding would end in an error

Version 1.4.0

Fixed some more problems in views.py

Installation with GIT

Step 1: Clone the Repository into plugins directory in your netbox instance

git clone https://github.com/vubeckubec/module_inventory_binder.git

Step 2: Add the plugin into PLUGINS in configuration.py

PLUGINS = [
    'module_inventory_binder',
    # Other plugins...
]

Step 3: Apply migrations(don't forget activating venv)

python manage.py migrate module_inventory_binder

Step 4: Run netbox(for example)

python manage.py runserver

Installion with PIP(don't forget activating venv)

This plugin is also available on PYPL so you can install it with PIP

pip install module_inventory_binder

after this just follow the same steps from Github installation

Troubleshooting tip

If you are encountering an error when creating a new bind with null values you need to manually delete custom field from the ModuleInventoryBinding table here is how to do it. This is an error in current version of the plugin i will try to fix it in the next version.

Step 1: Open postgres in command line

sudo -u postgres psql

Step 2: Switch to your DB

\c your_db_name

Step 3: Delete the custom field

ALTER TABLE module_inventory_binder_moduleinventorybinding
DROP COLUMN custom_field_data;