v1.3.0-beta3: Improved cluster and tag support (Margaret Hamilton)

If you're upgrading from older NetBox versions be aware of the change of custom_fields.
Only _ are allowed since 3.2 and - are not permitted anymore.
example: vcsa_last-backup will turn into vcsa_last_backup

What you need to do in NetBox:

• change description of OLD custom field
• delete OLD custom field in NetBox
• Sync again
• configure table in list with new available column of new custom field in NetBox after the sync completed

Removed config options:

• sync_tags was substituted with *_tag_source config options #146
• sync_parent_tags was substituted with *_tag_source config options #146

Features:

• Adds support for multiple cluster with the same name #119 #197
• Adds support for proxy and client certificates (mTLS) #140
• Adds config option to define ESXi host management interface description #154
• Adds option to use source name as cluster group name #171
• Adds support for several parallel instances of netbox-sync #176
• Adds support for syncing Dummy interfaces and IP addresses #181
• Adds config option to completely disable syncing of any VLAN information #205
• Adds an exclude option to permitted subnets to exclude small chunks of a bit block #203
• Adds support for inherited interface tenant to IP addresses and VLANs #199
• Adds vendor mapping to minimize and clean the host manufacturer #145
• Adds summary hardware info on devices #191
• Adds config option to create custom fields based on vm/host attributes #170
• Adds config option to define the source of tags for cluster, hosts and VM objects #146

Bugfixes:

• Fixes issue with changed object name length in newer NetBox versions #214
• Fixes issue with IP addresses being marked as orphan when VM is turned off #192
• Fixes issue with parent objet detection #195
• Fixes issue with long-running syncs and expired vCenter sessions #188
• Fixes issue with broken installation of Vsphere SDK #160
• Fixes issue with ipam.fhrpgroup model introduced to NetBox? #174
• Fixes issue with changed custom field format in NetBox #186
• Fixes issue with updated slugs on every sync #206

Maintenance:

• Updates requirements.txt to provide newer versions of dependencies

v1.2.3: Bugfixes to work with NetBox >= 3.1 (Katherine Johnson)

Bugfixes:

• Fixed requirements due to incompatibility with requests 2.24.0 #142
• Fixes issue with creating custom attributes from vcenter source #151
• Ignores devices with missing primary key 'name' (change NetBox uniqueness constrains) #162
• Fixes issue with VM primary not properly resolved an causing setting VM primary over and over again #172
• Fixes AttributeError: 'dict' object has no attribute 'get_display_name' (again) #120
• Fixes issue with new possibility to assign an 'fhrpgroup' to an IP address #137
• Fixes site detection when resolving interface VLANs #155

Improvements:

• From now on docker image will be published on docker hub #168

v1.2.2: exclude offline and placeholder VMs (Katherine Johnson)

Features:

• adds Support to add WWN from Redfish import #121
• adds user to docker file #118
• adds config option to exclude SRM placeholder VMs #136
• adds config option to exclude powered off VM #135

Bugfixes:

• fixes error if nicOrder status is None #117
• log to stdout by default (instead of stderr) #131
• change custom field names to comply to NetBox 3.1.1 constraints #123
• fixes error with IP addresses already existing in NetBox on first sync #120
• fixes issue with special characters in vcenter password #128

v1.2.1: add sync of vCenter custom attributes (Katherine Johnson)

Features:

• add syncing for vCenter Custom Attributes #114

v1.2.0: add check_redfish and vCenter tags (Katherine Johnson)

Features:

• adds new source "check_redifish" #91
• sync tags from vcenter #65
• Python virtual environment simplify for Ubuntu by @rsp2k in #103
• add "validate_tls_certs" setting to VMware source #106
• adds option for "vm_tag_relation" #98
• adds "cluster_tenant_relation" and "cluster_tag_relation" to vmware source #110

Bugfixes:

• VLANs that have a / in the name in vmware, are imported with the encoded %2f in the name instead #5
• wrong VLAN assigned when duplicate VLANs exist in same site #40
• fixes same slug name on objects #79 #99
• Skip importing items missing primary key #104
• fixes issue with cloned VMs not synced if same VM uuid exists in different vCenter instances #111

Maintenance

• improvements around class attributes and class creation to avoid circular dependencies #61
• remove 'netbox_host_device_role' and 'netbox_vm_device_role' config options #107
• Switch Docker base image to 'slim-bullseye' #105
• reduce DEBUG and DEBUG2 logging #97

Full Changelog: v1.1.2...v1.2.0

v1.2.0-beta.2: add check_redfish and vCenter tags (Katherine Johnson)

Features:

• adds new source "check_redifish" #91
• sync tags from vcenter #65
• Python virtual environment simplify for Ubuntu by @rsp2k in #103
• add "validate_tls_certs" setting to VMware source #106
• adds option for "vm_tag_relation" #98
• adds "cluster_tenant_relation" and "cluster_tag_relation" to vmware source #110

Bugfixes:

• VLANs that have a / in the name in vmware, are imported with the encoded %2f in the name instead #5
• wrong VLAN assigned when duplicate VLANs exist in same site #40
• fixes same slug name on objects #79 #99
• Skip importing items missing primary key #104
• fixes issue with cloned VMs not synced if same VM uuid exists in different vCenter instances #111

Maintenance

• improvements around class attributes and class creation to avoid circular dependencies #61
• remove 'netbox_host_device_role' and 'netbox_vm_device_role' config options #107
• Switch Docker base image to 'slim-bullseye' #105
• reduce DEBUG and DEBUG2 logging #97

Full Changelog: v1.1.2...v1.2.0-beta.2

v1.2.0-beta.1: add check_redfish and vCenter tags (Katherine Johnson)

Features:

• adds new source "check_redifish" #91
• Sync tags from vcenter #65
• Python virtual environment simplify for Ubuntu by @rsp2k in #103
• add 'validate_tls_certs' setting to VMware source #106
• adds option for vm_tag_relation #98

Bugfixes:

• Vlans that have a / in the name in vmware, are imported with the encoded %2f in the name insted #5
• wrong vlan assigned when duplicate VLANs exist in same site #40
• fixes same slug name on objects #79 #99
• Skip importing items missing primary key #104

Maintenance

• remove 'netbox_host_device_role' and 'netbox_vm_device_role' config options #107
• Switch Docker base image to 'slim-bullseye' #105
• reduce DEBUG and DEBUG2 logging #97

Full Changelog: v1.1.2...v1.2.0-beta.1

1.1.2: add support for NetBox >= v3.0

Bugfixes:

• fixes issue with stripped cluster domain name if "strip_host_domain_name" was set to False #89
• None api version after update Netbox to version 3.0.1 #88

1.1.1: Small bugfixes to Grace

Features:

• Adds Docker support #73 (Thanks to @miyukki)
• Adds Kubernetes support #83 (Thanks to @gervaso)

Bugfixes:

• Add WARNING if no usable IP addresses for host or running VM were found #81
• Fix strip_host_domain_name for standalone hosts #75
• Fixes issues with insufficient data for nic teaming interfaces #80

1.1.0: Add NetBox 2.11 support and bug fixes (Grace Hopper)

Features:

• Adopt to NetBox v2.11+ version with changed vcpus data type #58
• Adds config option to strip domain part from host/vm name #29
• Adds possibility to map platform #47
• Adds host_role_relation and vm_role_relation config options #56 (deprecates netbox_host_device_role and netbox_vm_device_role config options)
• Relation *_relation config options support values with a comma (needs to be enclosed in quotes) #42
• Add "match_host_by_serial" config option to disable host serial matching. #52
• Adds "host_tenant_relation" config option #51

Bugfixes:

• Handle missing "API-Version" HTTP header properly #57
• Fixes issue with accessing unresolved objects #45