Add ICMP scan to Prefixes (like php-ipam)

[tigerz931]

• Add Scan/Discover button for each prefix
• If button checked - background script will run once a day (or any desired interval from plugin page) and will ICMP scan the specific subnet (nmap if you will)
• New IP Addresses discovered will be created as active status
• Resolve new IP Address discovered PTR and store it in 'DNS name' field
• Existing IP Addresses that will not reply to ICMP - their status will change to dead/deprecated/inactive
• New IP addresses Description field will be 'Automatically Discovered '
• Both new and inactive hosts addresses 'Last updated' field will updated
• Inactive hosts will be completely removed from NetBox after 30 days or any desired period from plugin page
• For each subnet add 'Scan Now' button. popup will display the new IP Addresses (with PTR resolve as hostname) and approve to add each one of the IP addresses

php-ipam discover for specific subnet:

php-ipam inactive hosts widget:

php-ipam scan now subnet popup:

This will be a significant added value to Netbox!

Thank you 👍

[jeremystretch]

Please see our FAQ: Why Doesn't NetBox Scan for IPs?

[tigerz931]

the simple answer for this is to create additional nodes on the remote sites to scan the "local" site (same as in php-ipam). the agent will push the data by ansible to the root node API.
can request this as a feature?