This is a really basic plugin for nornir to use an existing RANCID installation as inventory for nornir. It will assemble the info from the various rancid router.db files, as well as basic authentication info out of .cloginrc
It gets initialized in the nornir config.yaml passing in the path to rancid. An example structure is included in the rancid folder.
inventory:
plugin: "rancid_inventory.rancid_inventory.RancidInventory"
options:
rancid_path: "rancid"
The included rancid.py is an example to walk through your rancid inventory, detecting what groups to look for devices in by checking the rancid_path/etc/rancid.conf config variable LIST_OF_GROUPS, ex. LIST_OF_GROUPS="routers switches firewalls"
% python rancid.py
{'cr2.lga6.company.local': Host: cr2.lga6.company.local, 'ms01.bos1.company.local': Host: ms01.bos1.company.local}
{'routers': Group: routers, 'switches': Group: switches}