Rack Reservations
Users can reserve specific units within a rack for future use. An arbitrary set of units within a rack can be associated with a single reservation, but reservations cannot span multiple racks. A description is required for each reservation, reservations may optionally be associated with a specific tenant.
Fields
Rack
The rack being reserved.
Units
The rack unit or units being reserved. Multiple units can be expressed using commas and/or hyphens. For example, 1,3,5-7 specifies units 1, 3, 5, 6, and 7.
Total U's
A calculated (read-only) field that reflects the total number of units in the reservation. Can be filtered upon using unit_count_min and unit_count_max parameters in the UI or API.
Status
The current status of the reservation. (This is for documentation only: The status of a reservation has no impact on the installation of devices within a reserved rack unit.)
Additional statuses may be defined by setting RackReservation.status under the FIELD_CHOICES configuration parameter.
User
The NetBox user account associated with the reservation. Note that users with sufficient permission can make rack reservations for other users.
Description
Every rack reservation must include a description of its purpose.
Rack Groups
Racks can optionally be assigned to rack groups to reflect their physical placement. Rack groups provide a secondary means of categorization alongside locati...
Rack Roles
Each rack can optionally be assigned a user-defined functional role. For example, you might designate a rack for compute or storage resources, or to house co...