A script to sync the Netbox device inventory to Zabbix.

Requires pyzabbix and pynetbox.

Script settings

Enviroment variables

• ZABBIX_HOST="https://zabbix.local"
• ZABBIX_USER="username"
• ZABBIX_PASS="Password"
• NETBOX_HOST="https://netbox.local"
• NETBOX_TOKEN="secrettoken"

Flags

Flag	Option	Description
-c	cluster	For clustered devices: only add the primary node of a cluster and use the cluster name as hostname.
-H	hostgroup	Create non-existing hostgroups in Zabbix. Usefull for a first run to add all required hostgroups.
-t	tenant	Add the tenant name to the hostgroup format (Tenant/Site/Manufacturer/Role)
-v	Verbose	Log with debugging on.

Logging

Logs are generated under sync.log, set the script for debugging / info options etc.

Hostgroups: manual mode

In case of omitting the -H flag, manual hostgroup creation is required for devices in a new category.

This is in the format: {Site name}/{Manufacturer name}/{Device role name} And with tenants (-t flag): {Tenant name}/{Site name}/{Manufacturer name}/{Device role name}

Make sure that the Zabbix user has proper permissions to create hosts. The hostgroups are in a nested format. This means that proper permissions only need to be applied to the site name hostgroup and cascaded to any child hostgroups.

Netbox settings

Custom fields

Use the following custom fields in Netbox to map the Zabbix URL:

• Type: Integer
• Name: zabbix_hostid
• Required: False
• Default: null
• Object: dcim > device

And this field for the Zabbix template

• Type: Text
• Name: zabbix_template
• Required: False
• Default: null
• Object: dcim > device_type

Permissions

Make sure that the user has proper permissions for device read and modify (modify to set the Zabbix HostID custom field) operations.

Custom links

To make the user experience easier you could add a custom link that redirects users to the Zabbix latest data.

• Name: zabbix_latestData
• Text: {% if obj.cf["zabbix_hostid"] %}Show host in Zabbix{% endif %}
• URL: {ZABBIX_URL} /zabbix.php?action=latest.view&filter_hostids[]={{ obj.cf["zabbix_hostid"] }}&filter_application=&filter_select=&filter_set=1