NetBox is a data center infrastructure management tool designed to serve as a centralized source of truth for network environments. It provides a structured platform for documenting network topology, managing device inventories, and tracking IP address spaces, ensuring that physical and logical connections are maintained within a single, consistent database.
The system is built on a modular framework that supports custom plugins, allowing organizations to extend its core functionality and tailor infrastructure modeling to specific operational requirements. By utilizing a declarative state model and an event-driven change tracking system, it provides an audit trail for all modifications and enables the detection of operational drift between documented models and actual infrastructure states.
The platform is designed with an application programming interface at its core, facilitating integration with external tools for network automation, configuration generation, and compliance enforcement. It is distributed as a web-based application that manages data integrity through a relational database schema.
