Infoblox

Interact with the Infoblox WAPI with Ruby. Use this gem to list, create, and delete host records.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'infoblox'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install infoblox

Usage

Connecting

An instance of the Infoblox::Connection class is necessary:

connection = Infoblox::Connection.new(:username => '', :password => '', :host => '')

Querying

Once a connection is made, one can use the resource class methods to query records. You can use the _max_results and _return_fields parameters for both find and all. See the Infoblox WAPI documentation on how to use these parameters.

# Find all networks. Note that this is limited to 1000 objects, as per the 
# Infoblox WAPI documentation. 
Infoblox::Network.all(connection)
# => [...]

# Find the first 7890 hosts
Infoblox::Network.all(connection, :_max_results => 7890)

# Find hosts that match a regular expression
Infoblox::Host.find(connection, {"name~" => "demo[0-9]{1,}-web.domain"})
# => [...]

You can also search across the Infoblox cluster using the Infoblox::Search resource. The response will contain any number of Infoblox::Resource subclass instances.

result = Infoblox::Search.find(connection, "search_string~" => "webserver-")
# => [#<Infoblox::Host>, #<Infoblox::Ptr>, ...]

Creating a network

The resource class instances support get, post, put, and delete. For example, creating a network is pretty straightforward:

# create
network = Infoblox::Network.new(:connection => connection)
network.network = "10.20.30.0/24"
network.extensible_attributes = {"VLAN" => "my_vlan"}
network.auto_create_reversezone = true
network.post

# update
network.network = "10.20.31.0/24"
network.put

Changing IP on an existing host

To change the IP of an existing host, you have to poke around in the ipv4addrs collection to find the one you are looking for. The example below assumes that there is only one ipv4 address and just overwrites it.

host = Infoblox::Host.find(connection, {"name~" => "my.host.name"}).first
host.ipv4addrs[0].ipv4addr = "10.10.10.10"
host.put

Basic CRUD examples

To do basic create/update/delete operations on an a_record/ptr_record set:

Create:

a_record = Infoblox::Arecord.new(:connection => connection, :name => <fqdn>, :ipv4addr => <ip_address>)
a_record.post

ptr_record = Infoblox::Ptr.new(:connection => connection, :ptrdname => <fqdn>, :ipv4addr => <ip_address>)
ptr_record.post

Update:

a_record = Infoblox::Arecord.find(connection, {:name => <fqdn>, :ipv4addr => resource_version_last_published.ip_address}).first
a_record.name = <fqdn>
a_record.ipv4addr = <ip_address>
a_record.view = nil
a_record.put

ptr_record = Infoblox::Ptr.find(connection, {:ptrdname => <fqdn>, :ipv4addr => resource_version_last_published.ip_address}).first
ptr_record.ptrdname = <fqdn>
ptr_record.ipv4addr = <ip_address>
ptr_record.view = nil
ptr_record.put

Delete:

a_record = Infoblox::Arecord.find(connection, {:name => <fqdn>, :ipv4addr => <ip_address>}).first
a_record.delete

ptr_record = Infoblox::Ptr.find(connection, {:ptrdname => <fqdn>, :ipv4addr => <ip_address>}).first
ptr_record.delete

Contributing

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request