Assurance in the NetBox Labs Console
Review deviations, run Discovery jobs, and manage your Orb agent fleet from the NetBox Labs Console.
NetBox Assurance now has a home in the NetBox Labs Console. Deviation review, Discovery jobs, run history, Orb agents, and credentials all sit in one platform, so the pipeline that observes your network and the queue it feeds are in the same place.
Public Preview - Assurance in the NetBox Labs Console is in Public Preview for NetBox Cloud customers. Contact your account team to enable it for your organization.
What you get in the Console
Assurance occupies two sections of the Console navigation.
| Section | Item | What you do there |
|---|---|---|
| Assurance | Discovery jobs | Create and run device and network discovery. See Run Discovery jobs. |
| Assurance | Run history | Check what each run did and why a run failed. |
| Assurance | Deviations | Review drift and decide what reaches NetBox. See Review and resolve deviations. |
| Fleet management | Orb agents | Register, start, and monitor the agents that perform discovery. See Manage Orb agents. |
| Fleet management | Credentials | Hold device credentials centrally and bind them to devices. See Manage device credentials. |
Before you begin
You need:
- NetBox Cloud with the NetBox Assurance add-on.
If you do not see Assurance in the Console navigation, contact your account team. - Access to the NetBox Labs Console.
See Console access if you have not logged in before. - At least one Orb agent, to see anything in Deviations.
Nothing arrives until discovery runs. Fleet Management covers getting the first one running.
How this relates to the Assurance plugin
The Assurance plugin inside NetBox continues to work during the preview. The Console is where new capability is being added, and it is the only place Fleet Management exists.
What's next
Getting help
Contact your account team or NetBox Labs support.
Getting Started with NetBox Assurance
Prerequisites, enablement on NetBox Cloud and NetBox Enterprise, connecting a data source, and working through your first deviations.
Review and resolve deviations
Filter the deviation queue, review what would change in NetBox, and apply, ignore, or recalculate deviations from the NetBox Labs Console.