Network Inventory can document the physical cable installation of a campus. It can be done manually, or via an api.

There are one import script from json to ni on git@cnaas-git.cnaas.sunet.se:random

it require a config.py file  with ni credentials

user='kaka'
key='kaka'
url='https://ni-dev.cnaas.io'

Input json file is a list of outlets

# JSON in file
{ ports: [
     {hus : "Albano Hus 3",       | Hus
     stall : "2123"               | Ställ / Rum med stativ "2123"
     stativ : "FSSB01"            | Stativ
     panel : "01A"                | Panel i stativ "01A" "01B" "01C" "01D" "01" "1"
     port : "01"                  | Port i Panel "01" "02" "1" "2"
     room : "2123"                | Rum som uttaget finns i "2123" "Koridor 213"
     comment : "I Tak"            | Kommentar om vart uttaget är placerat i rummet. "Fönsterbänkskanal" "I tak"
     },] }

Hus - sites: needs to be defined in NI before the import

Ställ - Room: CrossConnect room

Stativ - rack

Panel - Patchpanel 

Name in ni is the rack-name combined with the Panel name

Room: FSSB01 PatchPanel:33 → FSSB0133

Port - Port

The port is the number in the panel

room - room

(ops SE/EN should have been rum)

Is the room where the data outlet is located

Uttag - Outlet

The name is constructed from the rack + panel + port

Import Script

./Panel_kort/panelkort_json_to_ni_2.py  -i <pannel-kort.json>"

Excel to Json