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Network Automation with Nautobot

You're reading from   Network Automation with Nautobot Adopt a network source of truth and a data-driven approach to networking

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781837637867
Length 816 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Ken Celenza Ken Celenza
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John Anderson John Anderson
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Table of Contents (26) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1: Introduction to Source of Truth and Nautobot
2. Chapter 1: Introduction to Nautobot FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Nautobot Data Models 4. Part 2: Getting Started with Nautobot
5. Chapter 3: Installing and Deploying Nautobot 6. Chapter 4: Understanding the User Interface and Bootstrapping Nautobot 7. Chapter 5: Configuring Nautobot Core Data Models 8. Chapter 6: Using Nautobot’s Extensibility Features 9. Chapter 7: Managing and Administering Nautobot 10. Part 3: Network Automation with Nautobot
11. Chapter 8: Learning about Nautobot APIs – REST, GraphQL, and Webhooks 12. Chapter 9: Understanding Nautobot Integrations for NetDevOps Pipelines 13. Chapter 10: Embracing Infrastructure as Code with Nautobot, Git, and Ansible 14. Chapter 11: Automating Networks with Nautobot Jobs 15. Chapter 12: Data-Driven Network Automation Architecture 16. Part 4: Nautobot Apps
17. Chapter 13: Learning about the Nautobot App Ecosystem 18. Chapter 14: Intro to Nautobot App Development 19. Chapter 15: Building Nautobot Data Models 20. Chapter 16: Automating with Nautobot Apps 21. Index 22. Other Books You May Enjoy Appendix 1: Nautobot Architecture 1. Appendix 2: Integrating Distributed Data Sources of Truth with Nautobot 2. Appendix 3: Performing Config Compliance and Remediation with Nautobot

Custom links

Custom links are user-defined URL links that show up in the detail view of the page. They provide easily creatable links that can be used by your organization to quickly navigate to other tools and websites. The following four custom links were created for easy navigation for Forward Networks, Kentik, SolarWinds, and Splunk. How cool is that? You can navigate to them for this specific device right from this page!

Figure 6.22 – Custom link buttons

Figure 6.22 – Custom link buttons

It is also possible to change the color of a custom link button when you’re creating one.

Going one step further, you can also group custom links when there are many of the same type:

Figure 6.23 – Consolidating custom links into a single “grouping” button

Figure 6.23 – Consolidating custom links into a single “grouping” button

At a high level, custom links intend to derive the hyperlink from existing data in Nautobot in a consistent and easily accessible manner. As an example, a custom link may allow...

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