The following sections detail how to setup a instance of Inventory-Manager

Requirements

• Netbox
• Python3.6 and Virtualenv
• Postgres (for production environment)
• Kafka
• Graylog (mongodb + elasticsearch) - OPTIONAL

Installation

Developer Mode

First create a Virtualenv ( more information here)

$ virtualenv env_manager
$ source env_manager/bin/activate

Clone project goLeHI-Manager and install the requirements:

$ git clone https://gitlab.com/netbox-nmap-inventory/inventory-manager
$ cd inventory-manager
$ pip3 install -r requirements.txt

Ingress inside goleHI/goleHI folder and copy the file settings.py.orig to settings.py:

$ cd goleHI/
$ cp goleHI/settings.py.orig goleHI/settings.py

Execute the default django settings: migrate, create superuser and run server:

$ ./manage.py migrate
$ ./manage.py createsuperuser
$ ./manage.py runserver

gunicorn Installation

Install gunicorn

# pip3 install gunicorn

Copy contrib/gunicorn.py to /opt/inventory-manager/goleHI/gunicorn.py. We make a copy of this file to ensure that any changes to it do not get overwritten by a future upgrade.

# cp contrib/gunicorn.py /opt/inventory-manager/goleHI/gunicorn.py

You may wish to edit this file to change the bound IP address or port number, or to make performance-related adjustments.

systemd configuration

Copy contrib/goleHI-manager.service to the /etc/systemd/system/ directory:

# cp contrib/goleHI-manager.service /etc/systemd/system/

You may wish to edit this file to adjustments.

# systemctl daemon-reload
# systemctl start goleHI-manager.service
# systemctl enable goleHI-manager.service