Export Module-Type

[ciroiriarte]

Hello!, anybody can confirm if there's a "module-type export to yaml" feature somewhere?. In order to model yaml files to collaborate, I would like to confirm how should some things be modeled in a yaml file.

[danner26]

Hey @ciroiriarte there is not currently a way to export these via the UI, but I am looking into if it is possible to do so via pynetbox or similar

[danner26]

Alright so I have done some digging. Using pynetbox you can pull the module type/device type like so:

1. You can acquire the specific module like so: netbox.dcim.module_types.filter(model='<MODULE_MODEL>) where MODULE_MODEL is the slug of the module/device. Let save that to a variable such as module
2. Then, we can store the RecordSet as a list like so: mod_var = list(module) where mod_var is an arbitrary variable name
3. Lastly, we can then print out the module representiation (or store them in a var) like so: mod_var[0].__dict__

This will give you a JSON dataset. You can then either use this or convert it to YAML and it should be importable.

**WARNING**: The import part is not tested. You are welcome to comment back if something doesnt work