General

A script to sync the Netbox device inventory to Zabbix.

Only compatible with Netbox 3+

Script settings

Command line flags

Flag	Option	Description
-c	cluster	For clustered devices: only add the primary node of a cluster and use the cluster name as hostname.
-v	verbose	Log with debugging on.
-j	journal	Create journal entries in Netbox when a host gets added, modified or deleted in Zabbix.
-p	proxy-power	Force a full proxy sync. USE WITH CAUTION, see "Set proxy within Netbox" for more information.

Logging

Logs are generated by default to stdout and sync.log, use -v for debugging.

Netbox settings

Groups

Default groups:

Groups are created and the hosts automatically populated based on the following fields if set on the device.

Field	Group Format	Description
Location	Location - [Location Name]
Rack	Rack - [Rack Name]
Site	Site - [Site Name]
Role	Role - [Device Role]
Tenant	Tenant - [Tenant Name]

Custom groups:

Now a custom tag of "ZabbixGroup#Hello" will proceed to create the group "Hello" if it doesn't exist and place the device inside of that group.

Netbox device status

By setting a status on a Netbox device you determine how the host is added (or updated) in Zabbix. There are, by default, 3 options:

• Create the host in Zabbix with an enabled status (For now only enabled with the "Active" status)
• Create or update the host in Zabbix but with a disabled status (Trigger by "Failed", "Offline", "Planned" or "Staged")
• Delete the host from Zabbix (triggered by Netbox status "Decommissioning" or "Inventory")

You can modify this behaviour by changing the following list variables in the script:

• zabbix_device_removal
• zabbix_device_disable

Set proxy within Netbox

You can set the proxy for a device using the 'proxy' key in config context.

{
    "zabbix": {
        "proxy": "yourawesomeproxy.local"
    }
}

Because of the posible amount of destruction when setting up Netbox but forgetting the proxy command, the sync works a bit different. By default everything is synced except in a situation where the Zabbix host has a proxy configured but nothing is configured in Netbox. To force deletion and a full sync, use the -p flag.

Set interface parameters within Netbox

When adding a new device, you can set the interface type with custom context. Due to Zabbix limitations of changing interface type with a linked template, changing the interface type from within Netbox is not supported and the script will generate an error.

For example when changing a SNMP interface to an Agent interface:

Netbox-Zabbix-sync - WARNING - Device: Interface OUT of sync.
Netbox-Zabbix-sync - ERROR - Device: changing interface type to 1 is not supported.

To configure the interface parameters you'll need to use custom context. Custom context was used to make this script as customizable as posible for each environment. For example, you could:

• Set the custom context directly on a device
• Set the custom context on a label, which you would add to a device (for instance, SNMPv3)
• Set the custom context on a device role
• Set the custom context on a site or region

Agent interface configuration example

{
    "zabbix": {
        "interface_port": 1500,
        "interface_type": 1
    }
}

SNMPv1 interface configuration example (bulk updates turned off)

{
    "zabbix": {
        "interface_port": 161,
        "interface_type": 2,
        "snmp": {
            "bulk": 0,
            "community": "SecretCommunity",
            "version": 1
        }
    }
}

SNMPv2 interface configuration example

{
    "zabbix": {
        "interface_port": 161,
        "interface_type": 2,
        "snmp": {
            "bulk": 1,
            "community": "SecretCommunity",
            "version": 2
        }
    }
}

SNMPv3 interface configuration example

{
    "zabbix": {
        "interface_port": 1610,
        "interface_type": 2,
        "snmp": {
            "authpassphrase": "SecretAuth",
            "bulk": 1,
            "securitylevel": 1,
            "securityname": "MySecurityName",
            "version": 3
        }
    }
}

Note: Not all SNMP data is required for a working configuration. The following parameters are allowed but are not all required, depending on your environment.

Permissions

Make sure that the user has proper permissions for device read and modify (modify to set the Zabbix HostID custom field) operations.

Custom links

To make the user experience easier you could add a custom link that redirects users to the Zabbix latest data.

• Name: zabbix_latestData
• Text: {% if obj.cf["zabbix_hostid"] %}Show host in Zabbix{% endif %}
• URL: {ZABBIX_URL} /zabbix.php?action=latest.view&filter_hostids[]={{ obj.cf["zabbix_hostid"] }}&filter_application=&filter_select=&filter_set=1