Infoblox Tetration Integration Script

This script provides a set of manual and automated actions for creating and streaming inventory filters and user annotations to Tetration from Infoblox

Pre-requisites

Python 2.7.x

This script requires the following pip libraries be installed

• tetpyclient
• infoblox-client

To install all pip requirements issue the following command within your virtualenv:

pip install -r requirements.txt

Some notes about the above command. If you run it and find that it fails saying that it cannot find Python.h, you may need to install a further dependency. If you are using redhat/centos, you can satisfy this requirement by installing python-devel:

sudo yum install python-devel

If you are using a debian distro (such as ubuntu), install as such:

sudo apt-get install python-devel

If you plan to run this as a continually updating script, you may want to install the requirements not in a virtualenv, but just built to suit.

Installation

Clone this git repository and cd to the infoblox directory

git clone https://github.com/ciscoecosystem/Tetration-Infoblox.git

How to use the Script

Before you start, rename the file

example_settings.yml

to

settings.yml

and edit it to match your credentials.

This Script supports two types of modes

1. Manual setup actions: (One time tasks for setting up initial integration)
   • creating inventory filter csv file
   • exporting networks from infoblox to csv
   • associating inheritable extensible attributes with parent networks
2. Recurring actions: (Ran routinely at defined poll interval)
   • update inventory filters
   • update annotations

All settings and customization options for recurring tasks should be made in the settings.yml file. Manual tasks also require that the Infoblox and Tetration sections of the settings.yml file be configured

Usage Examples

Manual Actions

Create Inventory Filter CSV

Run this manual action if you want to manually adjust inventory filter definitions before pushing to tetration

python infoblox-integration.py --createFilterCsv 'filters.csv'

Create Network CSV

Run this manual action to generate a csv of all defined networks that can then be modified to restrict what networks annotations are created for.

python infoblox-integration.py --createNetworkCsv 'networks.csv'

Apply Extensible Attribute to network(s)

Run this manual action to add an inheritable extensible attribute to a list of networks (this requires elevated account privileges)

python infoblox-integration.py --importEaCsv 'networks.csv' --importEaName 'Location' --importEaValue 'US-DC-1'

Recurring Actions

All settings/options for recurring actions should be made in the settings.yml file

python infoblox-integration.py