feature request - multiple cluster with the same name

[Simperdy]

Hi Ricardo,

Netbox 3.1.0 finally allows multiple datacenter, same cluster name.
Could you modify your script to take advantage of this feature? (Relax uniqueness constraint on cluster names)
The relation between the site/cluster group/cluster would make the cluster unique.

Example:

Site: vCenter1
Cluster Group: DC01
Cluster: CL01

Site: vCenter1
Cluster Group: DC02
Cluster: CL01

current behaviour: only one cluster with the name will be used and the other is "empty" in netbox.

best regards
Simperdy

[kinokocorp]

Hello,
I have the same problem as Simperdy. In vCenter, I have 7 datacenters with the same cluster name...
Bad practice, surely. But I don't manage this vCenter.

[bb-Ricardo]

I first have to figure out how to distinguish them within the script. and having a sample setup to actually test this.

[ftaeger]

Hi, I've got the same issue but maybe a bit less complex: I have two Clusters, both named "Cluster1" but they are on different sites and are imported by using two source configurations in settings.ini.
I assumed the import would work per source config at least. But still - having multiple clusters being named the same way is not that uncommon.

If I understand it correctly, there might be the option to distinguish them by the cluster group as it seems there is one group per source?

[bb-Ricardo]

Hi @ftaeger, @Simperdy, @kinokocorp

I just pushed another change. Can you test and see if it works now. You might have to change your config.
Check this change: 3e0532a#diff-e8853b390f2c8fcec0ba2e3d91a5ad304c96c6786b63a66ac3dfeb4232abcb7e

[christianahug]

Hey! This doesn't seem to be working quite yet. I have two clusters with the same name in different datacenters, but it won't sync the hosts for the cluster in the second datacenter. I've added the relation in the config file as dc1/cluster1 and dc2/cluster1.

[bb-Ricardo]

Mmhh, not so good.

Can you please post some DEBUG logs? You can get them by adding -l DEBUG2.

Thank you very much.

[bb-Ricardo]

Hi, I added a change to the 'development' branch to print the cluster group for a cluster as well. Can you see if this works better?

[christianahug]

Yup, that did the trick. Thanks for your llightning fast response time!

[bb-Ricardo]

thank you, Will close this issue