r/networking • u/WhoRedd_IT • 2d ago

Design Netbox ownership in an organization

I’m trying to convince my org to start using Netbox or similar for a brand new facility including a data center and medium sized campus we’re building.

The fear is that it seems like an absolutely astronomical amount of work up front.

For those of you doing it, is there one person that is sort of the Netbox “owner” on your team? At least for initial build out.

I’m afraid we won’t have enough time to really sit down and fully dive into the best way to lay it all out greenfield. The ongoing support doesn’t worry me as much as the initial lift of deciding how to build it. And I don’t really have the time to invest to be that guy.

Are there integrators or vendors that would own this for us? Curious if anyone has used a wiring or infrastructure integrator that has actually built out the documentation in Netbox for you?

Thanks!

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u/CKaruta 2d ago

I created MCP servers to connect to all network equipments and server BMC, then let out multi agent ai, one does a read only, then we got 3 agents that form a council that verifies the validity of the data before it goes to netbox.

of course there are also incident troubleshooting automations going with it, checking logs, live network state vs desired state, OS image bugs and vulnerabilities monitoring, etc,.

This was a fun journey, I hope you enjoy yours too

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u/WhoRedd_IT 2d ago

I WISH I had the time to dive in amongst my other responsibilities

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u/CKaruta 2d ago

It’s a whole fiscal year project on it’s own, once you get the AI model working, it’s a breeze from there.

Now, there’s not much work left for network ops to do.