NetBox Integration webinar: Network Discovery, Assurance & Compliance Validation with Forward Networks and NetBox Labs
On May 21st we have shown the integration between Forward and NetBox in a joint webinar. UPDATE: The webinar recording is now available on YouTube:https://youtu.be/TSX14uke1NE.The description includes a link to the webinar slides and the GitHub repository. The integration is part of the NetBox’s Network Automation Architecture framework where Forward provides the Observability and Assurance piece, as shown in the picture below:NetBox Network Automation Architecture The first use case is about onboarding an empty NetBox instance with device data collected by Forward, such as Devices, Interfaces, Vendors, Location, and so forth.Onboarding an empty NetBox instanceThe integration is based on a Python script. It imports the data from Forward using NQE queries via REST APIs, transform the data from the Forward to the NetBox schema and then exports it to NetBoxThe process can be automated using a web-hook so that NetBox is updated every time Forward collects from the network.To run the integr