Netbox - Network Documentation and Management System
Use case
Section titled “Use case”NetBox is a source of truth for everything on a network.
It makes data about the network available to help with network automation, monitoring, and testing.
Netbox stores data about the network like:
- Physical components: power systems, cables, racks, circuits
- Virtual assets: IP addresses, VLANS, VPN
- Plans and operations: cable maps, device configurations
NetBox data can be used for:
- Observability and assurance
- Updated by network operations
- Used by automation tooling
Benefits
Section titled “Benefits”Allows network automation and monitoring tools to get source of truth plans to push out configurations and monitor changes
Features:
- Web user interface and APIs
- Monitor and control
- IP Address management
- Customizable and can integrate
- Common data model
- Tags, custom fields
- Security with role based access
- Data validation rules
- Device configuration rendering, configuration templates
- Automated events with scripts, webhooks
- Change logs of objects
See Also
Section titled “See Also”Resources
Section titled “Resources”- GitHub - netbox-community/netbox: source of truth powering network automation - Good technical information and explanation of NetBox usage
- GitHub - netbox-community/netbox-docker: Docker Image of NetBox
- NetBox.dev and NetBox Documentation