NetBox Blade Chassis Plugin

NetBox plugin that renders blade server bays inside chassis devices in rack SVG elevations.

Features

• Configure bay grid coordinates (position_x, position_y) on Device Bay Template forms or the Blade Layout tab on Device Type
• Empty coordinates: bay is not shown in rack elevation
• Filled coordinates: bay is rendered as a blade cell with child device hostname
• Symmetric grid validation on bulk save (Blade Layout tab)
• Inline rack elevation via plugin SVG endpoint
• Clickable blade cells linking to child devices

Compatibility

Installing

Review official NetBox plugin documentation for installation instructions.

Install from PyPI. Activate NetBox's virtual environment first:

source /opt/netbox/venv/bin/activate
pip install netbox-blade-chassis

For NetBox Docker, see using netbox-docker with plugins.

Install a development version directly from GitHub:

pip install https://github.com/aredoff/netbox-blade-chassis/archive/main.tar.gz

Or add to local_requirements.txt or plugin_requirements.txt (netbox-docker):

https://github.com/aredoff/netbox-blade-chassis/archive/main.tar.gz

Enable the plugin in /opt/netbox/netbox/netbox/configuration.py, or in netbox-docker /configuration/plugins.py:

PLUGINS = [
    'netbox_blade_chassis',
]

PLUGINS_CONFIG = {
    'netbox_blade_chassis': {},
}

Apply database migrations and update the search index:

cd /opt/netbox/netbox/
python3 manage.py migrate
python3 manage.py reindex --lazy

If you use netbox-docker, migrations and index updates are applied automatically when containers start.

Settings

Example:

PLUGINS_CONFIG = {
    'netbox_blade_chassis': {
        'enable_inline_elevation': True,
    },
}