[Feature Request] redfish inventory sync

[bl4ko]

What is the feature?

Add support for redfish inventory external source

Why is this feature important?

To be able to source inventory from redfish.

[bl4ko]

I think the easiest way to implement this is by using this go redfish-client. What do you think @bb-Ricardo ?

[bb-Ricardo]

Hi,

not really. Redfish itself is a noble idea. But some vendors have different ideas on how to implement a standard. This is where a static typed language starts struggling by needing to have all data in predefined structs.

I created this tool https://github.com/bb-Ricardo/check_redfish in python some years ago. It can also create "normalized" inventory files of a server.

Your setup would look like this:

• have a monitoring solution (or others scheduler) to run the inventory command on as many servers you need and create inventory files for example once a day.
• feed this inventory files to netbox-ssot to add/update the hardware components for each host in NetBox.

This requires that a) both tools run on the same server/container or b) you transport the files to where netbox-ssot is running.

This is an example which represents just the power supplies for a server.