agent configuration help about netbox-agent

[Solvik]

Hi,

From reading the code, it seems that I didn't manage the case where you only specify the datacenter.
You should also specify the rack

I'll see if I can manage a PR to make your case work

[wolfman2g1]

Thanks for your help. In my situation, I have hundreds of servers already deployed and I currently don't have a good way of managing elevations ( hence netbox). My plan was to get all the gear in netbox then update their locations afterwards.

[Solvik]

Ok :)
I understand the workflow and make sure it's supported

[Solvik]

would you be able to test the #143 branch and let me know if it's ok for you ?

[wolfman2g1]

Thanks for the quick turn around!!.still getting an error but not the same error

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/runpy.py", line 193, in _run_module_as_main
    "__main__", mod_spec)
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/runpy.py", line 85, in _run_code
    exec(code, run_globals)
  File "/home/rjones/netbox-agent/netbox_agent/cli.py", line 48, in <module>
    main()
  File "/home/rjones/netbox-agent/netbox_agent/cli.py", line 44, in main
    return run(config)
  File "/home/rjones/netbox-agent/netbox_agent/cli.py", line 39, in run
    server.netbox_create_or_update(config)
  File "/home/rjones/netbox-agent/netbox_agent/server.py", line 271, in netbox_create_or_update
    self._netbox_create_server(datacenter, rack)
  File "/home/rjones/netbox-agent/netbox_agent/server.py", line 185, in _netbox_create_server
    device_role = get_device_role('Server')
  File "/home/rjones/netbox-agent/netbox_agent/server.py", line 20, in get_device_role
    raise Exception('DeviceRole "{}" does not exist, please create it'.format(role))
Exception: DeviceRole "Server" does not exist, please create it

[Solvik]

the agent assumes that you have an existing DeviceRole called Server to be assigned to the server created or updated

[wolfman2g1]

Makes sense, is there a way to override this in the agent?

[Solvik]

there's a PR in #110 that I didn't merge so I guess it's time

[wolfman2g1]

Thanks that would be awesome. I'm doing this manually to start but the plan is to wrap this all up with ansible. I'll Define the roles in the inventory.

[Solvik]

Issue has been closed automatically, but I've also merged the role support that you can use by passing --device.chassis_role my_chassis_role --device.blade_role my_blade_role

Let me know if it works for you

From the tests I've done everything's ok :)

[wolfman2g1]

I pulled the changes. I'm still having issues just different issues. I think maybe I just don't quite understand the info I need to provide.

netbox-agent]$ python3 -m netbox_agent.cli -c ../agent.yml --register --device.chassis_role docker-host
ERROR:root:Specificing a datacenter (Site) is mandatory in Netbox

[Solvik]

I made the datacenter mandatory to create your device, you must specify the datacenter like:

datacenter_location:
  driver: "cmd:echo my-dc"
  regex: "(.*)"