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Guidance on the initial use and steps to deploy for network-importer
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Proposed Functionality
Network-Importer
This plug in is useful to import data from devices once the base information is in Nautobot. This plug-in is installed on the main machine if running Nautobot in a container.
In order to import data you will need to
Confirm you have existing inventory
Devices , Platform , Management IP / FQDN
Confirm you can reach the devices with tcp ping
Pull down the device configuration into batfish config directory
Apply the configuration into Nautobot
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Use Case
Check for the inventory
Validate you base inventory is seen in Nautobot network-importer inventory
**Validate to Inventory from Nautobot **
TCP Ping on port 2 is done to check the inventory can be reached network-importer inventory --check-connectivity
3 Pull configuration from devices into Batfish configuration directoty
You will need to connect to the devices and pull the configuration
configuration is dropped into the batfish config file location network-importer check --update-configs
Apply the configuration to the source of truth network-importer apply
You should now see a populated Nautobot environment
Configuration Changes
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I'm good with a few of the updates. A point of clarification, is that network-importer can be run from any machine that has access to both devices and Nautobot/NetBox. It does not need to be run from the same system as Nautobot. The reason for this is that this leverages the REST API of Nautobot to make the updates, not into the inside.
There may be a few tweaks based on this additional knowledge.
Environment
Guidance on the initial use and steps to deploy for network-importer
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Proposed Functionality
Network-Importer
This plug in is useful to import data from devices once the base information is in Nautobot. This plug-in is installed on the main machine if running Nautobot in a container.
In order to import data you will need to
Devices , Platform , Management IP / FQDN
--->
Use Case
Validate you base inventory is seen in Nautobot
network-importer inventory
TCP Ping on port 2 is done to check the inventory can be reached
network-importer inventory --check-connectivity
3 Pull configuration from devices into Batfish configuration directoty
You will need to connect to the devices and pull the configuration
configuration is dropped into the batfish config file location
network-importer check --update-configs
network-importer apply
Configuration Changes
The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: