Possibility to add a label while onbaording

[misch42]

Environment

• Python version: 3.6.8
• NetBox version: 2.8.7
• ntc-netbox-plugin-onboarding version: 1.2.0

It would be nice to have the possibilty to add a label to onboarded devices. This could help when automating the follow-up processes after onboarding new devices.

Example:

1. Onboard a new device with the label "new"
2. For all devices with the label "new"
   2.1 Trigger the collection of interface information
   2.2 Delete the label "new"

So after onbaording a new deivce, additional information could be collected.

Proposed Functionality

See above

Use Case

See above

[dgarros]

Thanks @misch42, it would be a great addition.
For the time being, I would suggest to onboard the new devices with different status like staged or planned.

[misch42]

Yes. This would be even better. But hte onboarding pluging also does not offer to set the "Status" of new device. At least the config option does not work for me.

[misch42]

See issue #58

[mzbroch]

In release 2.0 we introduced the onboarding extensions with an example as follows : https://github.com/networktocode/ntc-netbox-plugin-onboarding/blob/develop/docs/examples/example_ios_set_device_role.py - your use case is a perfect candidate for creating an extension.

Solution could be similar to the following one :

class MyOnboardingClass(Onboarding):
    def run(self, onboarding_kwargs):
        nb_k = NetboxKeeper(**onboarding_kwargs)
        nb_k.ensure_device()

        nb_k.device.tags.add("YOUR_LABEL_TAG")

        self.created_device = nb_k.device