iABG - Intersight AsBuilt Generator

Autmatic generation of base AsBuilt documents for intersight.

Reports on:

• Firmware
• Blade and rackmount servers
• Hyperflex
• FC and Ethernet Interfaces
• Service Profiles
• Management Interfaces

Overview:

• Uses the intersight_rest API to pull data from intersight
• Django and Bootrap4 provide the GUI for users to input the intersight API keys
• Data retrieved from API call is stored in a dataframe using the pandas module
• Dataframes then written to an excel workbook
• Word report generated using the python-docx package
• drawio topology template included for reference also

Demo (click to view)

Enter your intersight API keys using the form on the left, documents will be output for download on the right:

Word Template:

Excel Workbook:

Drawio Diagram:

Setup

Virtual Environment Windows

python -m venv venv
.\venv\Scripts\activate

Virtual Environment Linux

$ virtualenv venv
$ source venv/bin/activate

Pull the repo from git

git init
git pull https://github.com/j-sulliman/iabg.git

Install the required dependencies:
cd is
pip install -r .\requirements.txt

Installing collected packages: urllib3, six, idna, charset-normalizer, certifi, sqlparse, requests, pytz, python-dateutil, pycryptodomex, pycryptodome, numpy, lxml, et-xmlfile, asgiref, python-docx, pandas, openpyxl, intersight-rest, Django
Successfully installed Django-3.2.6 asgiref-3.4.1 certifi-2021.5.30 charset-normalizer-2.0.4 et-xmlfile-1.1.0 idna-3.2 intersight-rest-1.1.7 lxml-4.6.3 numpy-1.21.2 openpyxl-3.0.7 pandas-1.3.2 pycryptodome-3.10.1 pycryptodomex-3.10.1 python-dateutil-2.8.2 python-docx-0.8.11 pytz-2021.1 requests-2.26.0 six-1.16.0 sqlparse

Start Django Server

python .\manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8080

Watching for file changes with StatReloader
Performing system checks...

System check identified no issues (0 silenced).
August 24, 2021 - 10:29:29
Django version 3.2.6, using settings 'is.settings'
Starting development server at http://0.0.0.0:8080/
Quit the server with CTRL-BREAK.