NetBox for DCIM: Building Your Datacenter System of Record
Spreadsheets and out-of-date diagrams can’t keep pace with a modern datacenter. As racks fill, hardware refreshes, and cabling changes, the gap between what you documented and what is actually running keeps widening, and that gap shows up as failed deployments, capacity surprises, and slow troubleshooting.
This refreshed session shows how to use NetBox as the system of record for your datacenter infrastructure, from the first rack you model to a fully populated environment your automation can trust. We start with the fundamentals of modeling physical infrastructure, then show how to keep that model accurate as the datacenter changes, so your documentation reflects reality instead of last quarter’s plan.
What you’ll learn
- How NetBox models the physical layer, including racks, devices, network, power and console cabling, power distribution, circuits, and providers
- How to populate NetBox quickly with bulk imports through the web interface and the REST API
- How NetBox Discovery automatically ingests real-world infrastructure data so your model stays accurate over time
- How accurate datacenter data drives capacity planning, faster provisioning, and reliable automation
Who should attend
Network and datacenter engineers, infrastructure architects, and any team standing up a system of record for their physical infrastructure. NetBox is available as managed SaaS with NetBox Cloud or self-managed with NetBox Enterprise.
