Create cable connections in bulk

[shatt79]

Is there any way to make cable connections in bulk? I have 288ct (and larger) fiber panels that connect to multiple smaller panels. I know I could create multi-position rear ports and just connect rear ports together, but I have hundreds of panels and almost as many configurations. It'd be faster to be able to select 48 rear ports and connect those to 48 rear ports on panel X. Then take 144 rear ports and connect those to panel Y. Then 2x24 counts may go to two other panels, etc, etc.

[andy-lawson]

I've used cable imports for 24 port patch panels - would that scale up?
I create the CSVs in Excel and populate as required, then import into Netbox.
Much easier than linking PP rear ports together individually.

[shatt79]

I'll take a look at both options. Thanks!

[shatt79]

Like this one: https://github.com/netbox-community/reports/blob/master/scripts/multi_connect.py

This script doesn't seem to work in 3.2. I get this error:

<class 'ValueError'>

too many values to unpack (expected 2)

Python version: 3.8.10
NetBox version: 3.2.0

I'm not a coder, so I don't know how to fix.

[candlerb]

Needs a backtrace, but I'm not sure how you can get a backtrace from a custom script. Setting DEBUG = True in configuration.py might help, but I haven't tested this.

[trs91km]

Here also if I gave two interfaces, its failing
xe-1-1,xe-1-0 are the two interfaces of my devices

failure message: Unable to find "xe-1-1,xe-1-0" in interfaces on device B (test.com)

[candlerb]

I don't think a comma-separated list of interface names is allowed here. But a pattern like xe-1-[0-1] should be.

It's whatever Netbox's expand_alphanumeric_pattern allows.