Allow nat ip addresses to be filled with bulk import

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Allow nat ip addresses to be filled with bulk import #16646

Open dhoffend opened 3 months ago

dhoffend commented 3 months ago

NetBox version

v4.0.5

Feature type

New functionality

Proposed functionality

Allow nat ip address fields in the bulk import dialog.

Use case

We're trying to migrate a bigger number of ip addresses with static nat translations into the netbox. The current bulk csv import header fields don't allow those fields to be imported.

Database changes

No response

External dependencies

No response

peteeckel commented 3 months ago

This is not as trivial as it seems at first, I'm afraid.

I see two options to implement this:

Using the pk of the referenced nat_inside address object (unambiguous, but not very user-friendly)
Using the address of the referenced nat_inside address object (might be ambiguous or even wrong in some cases, e.g. if there is an object with the specified address, but not in the correct VRF).

Any ideas on how to best solve this? I'm afraid the only safe implementation is the one using pk.

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