Cable Bulk Import

[Hawk-3]

Hello! I'm trying to import (.../dcim/cables/import/):

side_a_device,side_a_type,side_a_name,side_b_device,side_b_type,side_b_name PP-A01-01,circuits.circuittermination,LINK-101,PP-B01-01,circuits.circuittermination,LINK-102

And I get the error:

<class 'django.core.exceptions.FieldError'> Cannot resolve keyword 'device' into field. Choices are: _cable_peer, _cable_peer_id, _cable_peer_type, _cable_peer_type_id, _cabled_as_a, _cabled_as_b, cable, cable_id, circuit, circuit_id, created, description, id, last_updated, mark_connected, object_changes, port_speed, pp_info, provider_network, provider_network_id, site, site_id, term_side, upstream_speed, xconnect_id

Python version: 3.8.10 NetBox version: 3.0.7

What could be the problem?

[candlerb]

Do you really want to connect a circuit termination back-to-back to another circuit termination? Given the names "PP-A01-01" (which sound like patch panels), do you mean dcim.frontport or dcim.rearport instead?

If you can provide the backtrace, it may help to understand what's going on (set EMAIL and ADMINS in configuration.py and it will be E-mailed to you). It is certainly a bug that an exception is raised instead of a proper error message, but I can't see how to reproduce it. Can you provide the exact steps?

I tried like this:

• Create circuit XXX, with termination A at my main site
• Create circuit YYY, with termination A at my main site
• Go to connections > cables, Upload

Unfortunately I don't know how to specify circuit terminations in a CSV upload, because circuit terminations don't have names. I tried:

side_a_device,side_a_type,side_a_name,side_b_device,side_b_type,side_b_name
XXX,circuits.circuittermination,A,YYY,circuits.circuittermination,A

This just said "Row 1 side_a_device: Object not found." and "Row 1 side_b_device: Object not found." Same if I replace "A" with the site name. (This appears to be the error associated with 'invalid_choice')

In the source code I can't see how CSV upload can identify a cable endpoint unless it has "device" and "name" attributes.

I can manually create a cable between the two circuit terminations though.