miaow2 / netbox-config-diff

Find diff and push rendered device configurations from NetBox to devices and apply them.

NetBox Config Diff Plugin

NetBox plugin for Config Diff.

• Free software: Apache-2.0
• Documentation: https://miaow2.github.io/netbox-config-diff/

About

Collecting diffs

With this plugin you can find diff between the rendered configuration for a device to its actual configuration, retrieved from the device itself, or stored in DataSource. Read about DataSources for further details.

Device configuration renders natively in NetBox. This feature was introduced in 3.5 version. NetBox Labs blog post about it.

Plugin supports a wide list of vendors (Cisco, Juniper, Huawei, MicroTik etc.) with the help of Scrapli. Read Scrapli and scrapli-community documentations to find full list of vendors.

Pushing configuration

Also you can push rendered configuration from NetBox to device and apply it.

Supported platforms:

• arista_eos
• cisco_iosxe
• cisco_iosxr
• cisco_nxos
• juniper_junos

This is possible thanks to the scrapli_cfg. Read Scrapli documentation for more info.

Compatibility

NetBox Version	Plugin Version
3.5, 3.6, 3.7	=>0.1.0

Installing

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

Install with pip:

pip install netbox-config-diff

Add to local_requirements.txt:

echo netbox-config-diff >> local_requirements.txt

Enable the plugin in /opt/netbox/netbox/netbox/configuration.py, or if you use netbox-docker, your /configuration/plugins.py file, and define credentials for devices connection:

PLUGINS = [
    "netbox_config_diff",
]

PLUGINS_CONFIG = {
    "netbox_config_diff": {
        "USERNAME": "foo",
        "PASSWORD": "bar",
        "AUTH_SECONDARY": "foobar",  # define here password for accessing Privileged EXEC mode, this variable is optional
    },
}

Run database migrations:

python manage.py migrate

Collect static from the plugin:

python manage.py collectstatic --noinput

Restart NetBox service:

systemctl restart netbox netbox-rq

Usage

Read this doc about collecting diffs, for configuration management read this

Video

My presention about plugin at October NetBox community call (19.10.2023).

Screenshots

Compliance finished with error

Render diff between configurations

No diff

Configuration request

Completed Configuration request

Credits

Based on the NetBox plugin tutorial:

• demo repository
• tutorial

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