Installing NetBox on EndeavourOS

In this tutorial, we are going to learn how to install NetBox on EndeavourOS, an Arch-based Linux distribution. NetBox is a free and open-source Network Infrastructure Management tool that allows network administrators to manage their network infrastructure.

Prerequisites

Before we begin, make sure you have the following installed on your system:

• EndeavourOS Latest
• Python 3.6 or later
• PostgreSQL 9.5 or later
• Git version control system
• Pip package manager

Step 1: Install Required Packages

First, we need to install some required packages on our system. Open the terminal and run the following command to update the package list:

sudo pacman -Syu

Now, install Python3, PostgreSQL, Git, and Pip using the following command:

sudo pacman -S python postgresql git python-pip

Also, install some additional packages required by NetBox:

sudo pacman -S libjpeg-turbo libxml2 libxslt

Step 2: Install Virtual Environment

We are going to use a virtual environment to install NetBox. It allows us to have multiple Python environments on a single system without conflicting with each other. To install the virtual environment package, run:

sudo pip install virtualenv

Step 3: Create a Virtual Environment

Next, create a directory and change to it using the following command:

mkdir netbox
cd netbox

Now, create a virtual environment using the following command:

virtualenv env

Step 4: Clone NetBox from GitHub

We can clone the NetBox source code from the GitHub repository using the following command:

git clone -b master https://github.com/digitalocean/netbox.git

You should see the following output on your terminal:

Cloning into 'netbox'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 7108, done.
remote: Total 7108 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 7108
Receiving objects: 100% (7108/7108), 13.97 MiB | 4.61 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (4626/4626), done.

Step 5: Install NetBox

Before installing NetBox, activate the virtual environment using the following command:

source env/bin/activate

Now, install the required Python packages:

cd netbox
pip install -r requirements.txt

Next, create a file named .env to store the database configuration parameters:

cp env.example .env

Open the .env file using your favorite editor and change the following parameters:

ALLOWED_HOSTS=127.0.0.1,netbox.example.com  # Set the hostname or IP address of your server
DATABASE_NAME=netbox                      # The name of the PostgreSQL database
DATABASE_USER=netbox                      # The username of the PostgreSQL user for NetBox
DATABASE_PASSWORD=PASSWORD                # Set your PostgreSQL password here

Now, create the NetBox database and user using the following commands:

sudo -u postgres createuser netbox
sudo -u postgres createdb netbox
sudo -u postgres psql
postgres=# ALTER USER netbox WITH PASSWORD 'PASSWORD';  # Replace PASSWORD with a strong password
postgres=# GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON DATABASE netbox TO netbox;
postgres=# \q

Finally, run the following command to apply the migrations to the database:

python manage.py migrate

Step 6: Run NetBox

To run NetBox, execute the following command:

python manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8000

This will start NetBox on port 8000. Now, open your web browser and visit http://localhost:8000 to access the NetBox web interface.

Conclusion

In this tutorial, we have learned how to install NetBox on EndeavourOS. NetBox is a powerful tool for network infrastructure management and can help simplify the task of configuring and managing network devices.

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