Installing the App in Nautobot

Prerequisites

• The plugin is compatible with Nautobot 2.0.0 and higher.
• Databases supported: PostgreSQL, MySQL

Note

Please check the dedicated page for a full compatibility matrix and the deprecation policy.

Access Requirements

N/A

Install Guide

Note

Plugins can be installed manually or using Python's pip. See the nautobot documentation for more details. The pip package name for this plugin is nautobot_plugin_nornir.

The plugin is available as a Python package via PyPI and can be installed with pip:

pip install nautobot-plugin-nornir

To ensure Nautobot Plugin Nornir is automatically re-installed during future upgrades, create a file named local_requirements.txt (if not already existing) in the Nautobot root directory (alongside requirements.txt) and list the nautobot-plugin-nornir package:

# echo nautobot-plugin-nornir >> local_requirements.txt

Once installed, the plugin needs to be enabled in your Nautobot configuration. The following block of code below shows the additional configuration required to be added to your nautobot_config.py file:

• Append "nautobot_plugin_nornir" to the PLUGINS list.
• Append the "nautobot_plugin_nornir" dictionary to the PLUGINS_CONFIG dictionary and override any defaults.

# In your nautobot_config.py
PLUGINS = ["nautobot_plugin_nornir"]

PLUGINS_CONFIG = {
    "nautobot_plugin_nornir": {
        "use_config_context": {"secrets": False, "connection_options": True},
        # Optionally set global connection options.
        "connection_options": {
            "napalm": {
                "extras": {
                    "optional_args": {"global_delay_factor": 1},
                },
            },
            "netmiko": {
                "extras": {
                    "global_delay_factor": 1,
                },
            },
        },
        "nornir_settings": {
            "credentials": "nautobot_plugin_nornir.plugins.credentials.env_vars.CredentialsEnvVars",
            "runner": {
                "plugin": "threaded",
                "options": {
                    "num_workers": 20,
                },
            },
        },
    }
}

App Configuration

The plugin behavior can be controlled with the following list of settings.

Key	Example	Default	Description
nornir_settings	{"nornir_settings": { "credentials": "cred_path"}}	N/A	The expected configuration paramters that Nornir uses, see Nornir documentation.
username	ntc	N/A	The username when leveraging the CredentialsSettingsVars credential provider.
password	password123	N/A	The password when leveraging the CredentialsSettingsVars credential provider.
secret	password123	N/A	The secret password when leveraging the CredentialsSettingsVars credential provider.
connection_options	N/A	{"netmiko": {"extras": {"global_delay_factor": 1}}}	Set Nornir connection options globally to be used with all connections.
use_config_context	{"secrets": True, "connection_options": True}	{"secrets": False, "connection_options": False}	Whether to pull Secret Access Type, and/or Connection Options from Config Context.
connection_secret_path	"my_plugin.newos"		Dotted expression of the dictionary path where a device secret should be stored for a given Nornir Plugin.
secret_access_type	"SSH"	"GENERIC"	Type of Secret Access Type to use. Examples. "GENERIC", "CONSOLE", "GNMI", "HTTP", "NETCONF", "REST", "RESTCONF", "SNMP", "SSH"
allowed_location_types	["Site"]	[]	The location types you would like to be automatically grouped.
denied_location_types	["Region"]	[]	The location types you would like to NOT be automatically grouped.

Note: The default value for connection_secret_path is "nautobot_plugin_nornir.plugins.credentials.env_vars.CredentialsEnvVars", left here to import rendering of the table.

The plugin behavior can be extended further with config context data. The plugin currently implements two options: Nornir connection options, and secrets. The supported settings are listed below.

Key	Description
connection_options	Dictionary representation of a Nornir Plugins connection options.
connection_secret_path	Dotted expression of the dictionary path where a device secret should be stored for a given Nornir Plugin.
secret_access_type	Type of Secret Access Type to use. Examples. "GENERIC", "CONSOLE", "GNMI", "HTTP", "NETCONF", "REST", "RESTCONF", "SNMP", "SSH"

For details on the credentials, and inventory please see their respective documentation.