Use Platform data from Netbox during integration

[ryanmerolle]

Leverage the existing Netbox platform data instead of custom field defining platform type.

Instead of creating a custom field in net box defining platform data that Netconfig us, I recommend you leverage the platform data already associated to each device. Before this can happen, you would need some way to pull platform types and associate to Netconfig names platform.

[matt852]

This is a good idea, thanks for the suggestion. Do you know of any standardized platform data in NetBox I can reference, or start looking into? Everything I've seen from using it is built on custom-user-input.

Actually, I think I just answered my own question. I can create a page where the user can input all platforms they want to pull from NetBox, store it in the local db, then reference it later on the API refresh.

Thanks, I'll work on this later this week or next.

[matt852]

As part of this, I'll need to add support for devices using local credentials when pulling the inventory from NetBox