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NetBox plugin for ptov. Uses dcnodatg project.

Project description

NetBox PtoV Plugin

Netbox plugin for pulling runstate (config and topology) from Arista switches and replicating them in a GNS3 virtual lab using Arista cEOS containers

Features

  • Creates a new model/table for storing the DNS names of your GNS3 servers. ("Boring, Sidney; borrring, borrrrrrring", I know.)

  • Provides a screen/page that prompts you to:

    • Select a GNS3 server and as few or as many Arista switches as you want from your devices table.
    • Enter a set of Arista EOS credentials
    • Enter a project-name to use for a new project on the GNS3 server image
  • Programmatically instantiates a GNS3 virtual-lab, populated with Arista cEOS container/nodes, each of which is:

    • MLAG friendly (each container is configured to use the system-mac address of the "real" switch it is emulating)
    • Running a (cEOS/lab conformed) copy of the startup-config of the switch it is emulating
    • Running the same cEOS version as the switch that it is emulating (if you have a matching Docker template installed on your GNS3 server)
    • Happy to run as an EVPN/VXLAN fabric, if that's your bag. (There's some per-VRF/network-namespace ipfilters tweaking that may still need to be cleared up.)
    • Has "links" provisioned in the vlab, mirroring the inter-switch links of the "live" switches you're modeling (detected when inspecting th LLDP tables of the switches)
  • Returns a URL image

  • ...at which you can access the virtual-lab you just created. image

Contemplated Use-cases

Change modeling, obviously. Invasive troubleshooting of pesky routing issues that you wouldn't want to spend six hours setting up a vlab for, but that would be well-worth the effort if it only took two minutes to set up. (The 14-switch topology shown in the images above took just under 60 seconds instantiate.)

Under the hood

Compatibility

NetBox Version Plugin Version
4.1 0.1.x

Installing

For adding to a NetBox Docker setup see the general instructions for using netbox-docker with plugins.

Install using pip:

pip install netbox_ptov

or by adding to your local_requirements.txt or plugin_requirements.txt (netbox-docker):

netbox_ptov

Enable the plugin in /opt/netbox/netbox/netbox/configuration.py, or if you use netbox-docker, your /configuration/plugins.py file :

PLUGINS = [
    'netbox_ptov'
]

PLUGINS_CONFIG = {
    "netbox_ptov": {},
}

Credits

Based on the NetBox plugin tutorial:

This package was created with Cookiecutter and the netbox-community/cookiecutter-netbox-plugin project template.

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