Overview

The IP Fabric Nornir plugin allows you to use your IP Fabric instance for your Nornir inventory.

Danger

Integrations should be installed outside of the IP Fabric VM unless the IP Fabric team explicitly instructs otherwise.

Warning

Any action on the Command-Line Interface (CLI) using the root, osadmin, or autoboss account may cause irreversible, detrimental changes to the product. Actions taken without direct communication with the IP Fabric Support or Solution Architect teams can render the system unusable.

Special Thanks

This project is an IP Fabric officially supported fork of nornir_ipfabric by routetonull. Thank you for your work!

Install

The recommended way to install ipfabric_nornir is via pip:

pip install ipfabric_nornir

Requirements

An instance of IP Fabric is required for collecting information.

Example Usage

Setup

Using Environment Variables

Set environment variables to provide URL and credentials to connect to the IP Fabric server:

export IPF_URL=https://ipfabric.local
export IPF_TOKEN=myToken

# Or Username and Password
export IPF_USER=admin
export IPF_PASSWORD=mySecretPassword

Using .env File

The easiest way to use this package is with a .env file. You can copy the sample and edit it with your environment variables. An example file can be found at sample.env.

This contains the following variables which can also be set as environment variables instead of a .env file.

IPF_URL="https://demo3.ipfabric.io"
IPF_TOKEN=TOKEN
IPF_VERIFY=true

Or if using Username/Password:

IPF_URL="https://demo3.ipfabric.io"
IPF_USERNAME=USER
IPF_PASSWORD=PASS

Running

from nornir import InitNornir
nr = InitNornir(inventory={"plugin": "IPFabricInventory"})

Using the InitNornir Function

from nornir import InitNornir
nr = InitNornir(
    inventory={
        "plugin": "IPFabricInventory",
        "options": {
            "base_url": "https://ipfabric.local",
            "token": "Token",  # or "username":"admin", "password":"mySecretPassword",
            "verify": True,
            "platform_map": "netmiko",  # "netmiko" (Default), "napalm", or "genie",
            "default": {"username": "device_username", "password": "device_password"},
        },
    },
)

Using the Nornir Configuration File

config.yaml file:

---
inventory:
  plugin: IPFInventory
  options:
    base_url: "https://ipfabric.local"
    token: "TOKEN"
    # username: "admin"
    # password: "mySecretPassword"
    verify: true
    platform_map: netmiko # "netmiko", "napalm", or "genie"
    default:
      username: "device_username"
      password: "device_password"

Usage:

from nornir import InitNornir
nr = InitNornir(config_file="config.yaml", inventory={"plugin": "IPFabricInventory"})