REST API question

[rossm...@gmail.com]

Good evening

I don't really know anything about this topic but I would like to ask the following.

Would it be possible to use the REST API in VMware 6.5 to export its data and then it import into Netbox via its REST API?

Presumably I would need some sort of intermediate application to convert the data?

Is this possible or am I talking rubbish?

The goal is to import all the VMs from our VMware estate into Netbox without relying on slow manual, error prone processes.

Thanks

Ross 

[Jeremy Stretch]

REST is just a loose protocol governing the representation and exchange of data between client and server; it doesn't provide any logic concerning the data itself. You would need to implement an intermediary process to convert the relevant data from the VMware API to the format NetBox expects to receive. Unfortunately I'm not familiar with VMware's API so I can't offer an estimate of difficulty; maybe someone else can.

Jeremy

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[Brian Candler]

I saw somebody already made a tool for this.

https://gitlab.com/jwegner/netbox-utilities/blob/master/Sync-Netbox.ps1

found via:

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/netbox-discuss/XuMAc68kyvc/DFGczy2wDgAJ

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/netbox-discuss/At-OLUPn01M/9XRkoO_jBAAJ

[Luis N]

Had issues testing the sync tool w a dev env running 2.4.9 netbox and had issues w/ a field that was null . tried upgrading to 2.5.0 and more issues. has anyone tried or updated it? noticed the github project was closed

ex: 

noticed this isnt formated correctly anymore,

                        "custom_fields":  "@{vcenter_persistent_id=}",

another error coming from above

TerminatingError(Write-Warning): "A positional parameter cannot be found that accepts argument 'System.Object[]'."

Write-Warning : A positional parameter cannot be found that accepts argument 'System.Object[]'.

At line:148 char:21

+ ...             Write-Warning -Message [String]::Format("{0} has {1} entr ...

+                 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

    + CategoryInfo          : InvalidArgument: (:) [Write-Warning], ParameterBindingException

    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : PositionalParameterNotFound,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.WriteWarningCommand

Write-Warning : A positional parameter cannot be found that accepts argument 'System.Object[]'.

At line:148 char:21

+ ...             Write-Warning -Message [String]::Format("{0} has {1} entr ...

+                 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

    + CategoryInfo          : InvalidArgument: (:) [Write-Warning], ParameterBindingException

    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : PositionalParameterNotFound,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.WriteWarningCommand

VERBOSE: GET http://netbox01/api/virtualization/virtual-machines/?q=&cf_vcenter_persistent_id=41fff0b7-04e6-4b53-a12a-beb61a152a91 with 0-byte payload

>> TerminatingError(Invoke-RestMethod): "

    Server Error

                            Server Error

                                There was a problem with your request. Please contact an administrator.

                      

                            The complete exception is provided below:

                        

<class 'AttributeError'>

'CustomFieldFilter' object has no attribute 'name'

                        

                            If further assistance is required, please post to the NetBox mailing list.

                        

                        

                            Home Page

"

Invoke-RESTMethod : 

    Server Error

                            Server Error

 

                                There was a problem with your request. Please contact an administrator.

                            

                        

                        

                        

                            The complete exception is provided below:

                        

<class 'AttributeError'>

'CustomFieldFilter' object has no attribute 'name'

                        

                            If further assistance is required, please post to the NetBox mailing list.

                        

                        

                            Home Page

                        

                    

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