Exclude changes of being changeloged or other options?

[MalfuncEddie]

Hi,

To enrich netbox we use ansible to fill in some custom fields.
The sync scripts works by first checking if something is changed and only is something is different post an update to netbox. This is to not have "no changes" updates in the changelog.
Unfortunately there was a bug in the scripting that resulted in some objects not updating and as a result we were viewing "old" data. To alleviate this I added a custom field "sync date" that shows the last date the "sync" worked.

This has the side effect that every day the "sync date" is different and generates changelog entries for every object the sync script enriches daily.

This us quite unruly. Now I know the changelog and save() method are quite intertwined and there is no easy way to solve this.

I was thinking that this might be better solved with an plugin?
database wise I only need a table "object ID" "sync-date"

Is a plugin the way to go for this problem or is there an option I am not seeing? Any advise is most helpful

PS: just started to learn django so I understand this project a bit more.

[MalfuncEddie]

After reading the documentation of developing a plugin I think I just create a new model that links a vm to an Datadump object

from django.contrib.postgres.fields import ArrayField
from django.db import models
from django.urls import reverse

from netbox.models.features import  CustomFieldsMixin, CustomLinksMixin


class DataDump(NetBoxModel):
....

Will update this post when it is complete