nothing is imported into netbox

[MROSSFTEK]

im running python3 netbox-scanner.py nmap

its saying started 0 hosts.. the samples i ran and it went out and did nmap discovery , created the xml file and everything.
am i literally doing it wrong?

[andreigollo]

We tried the same. Apparently this does not work anymore even for a year the users had the same issues. Basically inmap identifes the hosts but cannot connect to netbox in any way.
The project's last change was 2 years ago, I imagine all libraries have changed , even netbox probably

[MROSSFTEK]

shame.. had promise

[andreigollo]

yes , the proble seems at the connection to netbox, there we get a bad request so i guess the api has changed or something.

[MROSSFTEK]

i can run the sudo ./nmap-scan.sh script.. runs.. finds what it should.. comes back with a file.. but of course it doesnt do anything
if i run python3 netbox-scanner.py i get this
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/opt/netbox/netbox/netbox-scanner/netbox-scanner-master/netbox-scanner.py", line 15, in
argument = str(sys.argv[1])
IndexError: list index out of range

[andreigollo]

you should use python3 netbox-scanner.py nmap , but that command is already inside nmap-scan.sh script.
copy nmap-scan.sh to the same folder as netbox-scanner. We use as address = '217.0.0.1:8001'

[MROSSFTEK]

so run
python3 netbox-scanner.py nmap 127.0.0.1:8001 (assuming the IP here) all in one command? i have the address of the netbox in the conf file already

[MROSSFTEK]

if i run python3 netbox-scanner.py nmap what it comes back with is just
started: 0 hosts
finished: .0 +0 ~0 !0
thats all it says LOL

[andreigollo]

ok, when you run the nmap-scan.sh it creates the xml files, it calls the netbox-scanner.py and it archives the files at the end. When you run only the netbox-scanner , there are no xml files as input for it. so you must comment out the last 2 lines in nmap-scanner so the xml remain in place. After you can call netbox-scanner as oftne as you want as it gets the files

[MROSSFTEK]

got it.. but.. what do i do with the XML files and how do i get it to import them into the netbox system?

[MROSSFTEK]

got it!
had to put a scans folder in the root of /opt/netbox
then i changed the .sh script to move . xml files from the netbox scanner dir to that scans dir, it then runs the .py to import, then deletes the .xml files.. voila

[mariano-daniel]

@MROSSFTEK : I'm stuck at the same place as you, but despite moving the scans dir and modifying the .sh to move xml files there, still not getting any luck.

Care to share your setup?

[jburg379]

Can you tell me how you got them to show up on the netbox UI?
When i run the py it shows the created IPs and some that say unchanged but when I check netbox there aren't any new IPs or devices

[monteroman]

@MROSSFTEK - How are you importing the results into Netbox? I have the scans folder in /opt/netbox with the tar.gz files, but am not seeing how to import these into Netbox. It goes without saying, I'm a n00b!

[casperklein]

If you have Docker installed, you can take a look at https://github.com/casperklein/docker-netbox-scanner

It still works with the current netbox version 4.2.9