NetBox was designed with the following tenets foremost in mind. That said, NetBox can be used to great effect in populating external tools with the data they need to perform these functions. To that end, it might help to provide some examples of functionality that NetBox does not provide:
This ensures that development focuses on core functionality and that scope creep is reasonably contained. While NetBox strives to cover many areas of network management, the scope of its feature set is necessarily limited.
It encompasses the following aspects of network management: NetBox is made available as open source under the Apache 2 license. Initially conceived by the network engineering team at DigitalOcean, NetBox was developed specifically to address the needs of network and infrastructure engineers. NetBox is an infrastructure resource modeling (IRM) application designed to empower network automation.
