Meraki-Netbox

A set of python scripts and an AWS Lambda function that leverages a python module that can synchronize data between Netbox and the Meraki Dashboard.

Requirements

Python

Python requimrents are contained in requirements.txt:

pip install -r requirements.txt

Netbox

You Netbox deployment must be configred with the following tags and custom fields:

Tags:

• discovered

Custom Fields:

• last_used: date
• mac: string

Environment Variable

• NETBOX_URL: URL of the Netbox instance
• NETBOX_TOKEN: Netbox API Token
• MERAKI_ORG_ID: Meraki ORG Id
• MERAKI_DASHBOARD_API_KEY: Meraki API TOKEN
• MERAKI_TIMESPAN: Timespan for the IP Address search

Organization

This repo contains a module (meraki-netbox) along with scripts that leverage the functions in that module. It also contains an AWS Lambda function that can call different functionality from the module depending on the event that the Lambda fucntion receives.

Scripts

discover_meraki_clients.py

Description:

This script iterates through the specified organization's networks looking for networks with the discover-clients tag. When it finds such a network, it iterates through all of the hosts in that network. For each host, it either adds it to IP Addresses if it does not exist or updates it if it does exist. In both cases, it updates the last_used and mac fields. When it adds a host, it also adds a discovered tag to keep track of the hosts that were added through the discovery process.

Makefile targets

A number of default make targets are provided. You can run make help to get a short summary of each.

Useful targets:

• make check: runs yapf and pylint to check formatting and code correctness. A .pylintrc is provided with some defaults to make it a little less picky.
• make docs : build documentation in HTML and Markdown. By default, it will automatically generate API documentation for everyting in myproject. Output documents can be found in docs/build.
• make clean: cleans up generated binaries, virtualenvs, and documentation
• make lambda-layer: Creates a layer for the dependancied in requirements.txt and pushes to AWS Lambda
• make lambda-deploy: Packages the function and pushed to AWS Lambda

Note: See Contributing for guideline to use when contributing to this project