Summary

You have now seen that we have begun to populate your Nautobot deployment with real data representing your organization’s network infrastructure. This is just the beginning of your journey with a source of truth representing various elements. As you dive deeper, it is important to know that there is much more to do, depending on your use cases, such as IP address management, device redundancy, circuit management, power, and cabling. There are many possibilities to explore. Now imagine a future where all of this information is available to you for automation use cases. You could generate configurations based on location hierarchies, safely upgrade devices based on redundancy status, overlay circuit maintenance status into a telemetry solution, or even create a field installation guide for your technicians as they need to plug in devices to various ports on a system. The possibilities are boundless.

In the next chapter, we will explore how to add additional data to...