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In case you were struggling to find anything meaningful on the site regarding what netbox actually is: >NetBox is the leading solution for modeling and documen

In case you were struggling to find anything meaningful on the site regarding what netbox actually is: >NetBox is the leading solution for modeling and documenting modern networks. By combining the traditional disciplines of IP address management (IPAM) and datacenter infrastructure management (DCIM) with powerful APIs and extensions, NetBox provides the ideal "source of truth" to power network automation.

jethro_tell 3y ago
There are a lot of DCIMs out there, where netbox really shines, is that it's got a decent API and is pretty flexible. We use it as a front end for managing physical datacenters with a host of services that take or store their state in netbox. Services check boot targets, hosttypes, connected switch and power ports, the service and role a host will or does provide, lifecycle tracking, etc . . . And, we can give it to our physical datacenter techs and they just set the fields and boot the host. It's a really nice way to manage a front end, because netbox handles things like ldap and UI and we just write services that make the datacenter look like netbox.
- NewJazz 3y ago
  My company went with opendcim over netbox a few years back and filled in the gaps with a custom database and app. We are now migrating a lot of our data into netbox and wondering why we didn't do that in the first place.
jesperwe 3y ago
"The site" is actually just their blog. The github repo at https://github.com/netbox-community/netbox https://github.com/netbox-community/netbox is more like the real homepage and has a good presentation.
HeckFeck 3y ago
Oh. A pity. In my head it would’ve been something like a poor man’s SIEM, monitoring traffic and keeping track of who has been accessing what on my home network. Hence, a source of truth. The mysterious machinations of the modern datagram hailstorm quantified and exposed.
- cloudpimp 3y ago
  We use wazuh for this (and netbox tags to track which hosts have wazuh agents managed by ansible or other means).

jethro_tell 3y ago

There are a lot of DCIMs out there, where netbox really shines, is that it's got a decent API and is pretty flexible. We use it as a front end for managing physical datacenters with a host of services that take or store their state in netbox. Services check boot targets, hosttypes, connected switch and power ports, the service and role a host will or does provide, lifecycle tracking, etc . . . And, we can give it to our physical datacenter techs and they just set the fields and boot the host. It's a really nice way to manage a front end, because netbox handles things like ldap and UI and we just write services that make the datacenter look like netbox.

NewJazz 3y ago
My company went with opendcim over netbox a few years back and filled in the gaps with a custom database and app. We are now migrating a lot of our data into netbox and wondering why we didn't do that in the first place.

jesperwe 3y ago

"The site" is actually just their blog. The github repo at https://github.com/netbox-community/netbox https://github.com/netbox-community/netbox is more like the real homepage and has a good presentation.

HeckFeck 3y ago

Oh. A pity. In my head it would’ve been something like a poor man’s SIEM, monitoring traffic and keeping track of who has been accessing what on my home network. Hence, a source of truth. The mysterious machinations of the modern datagram hailstorm quantified and exposed.

cloudpimp 3y ago
We use wazuh for this (and netbox tags to track which hosts have wazuh agents managed by ansible or other means).