Import into a board
A sweep sees what answers on the segment. It does not see a cloud account, the VMs behind a hypervisor, the containers on a host, or the CMDB entry that says who owns a machine. Imports bring those in from files.
Files only, read in your browser
Section titled “Files only, read in your browser”The file is parsed in your browser. It never reaches Infrality’s servers: what is saved is the board drawn from it, held to the same rules as any save. Infrality never connects to your cloud account, hypervisor or CMDB.
Formats
Section titled “Formats”| Family | Formats |
|---|---|
| Infrastructure as code | Terraform (.tf), Terraform state, CloudFormation / SAM, Azure ARM templates, Pulumi stacks |
| Cloud inventories | AWS, Azure, Google Cloud |
| Containers | Docker Compose, docker inspect, Kubernetes manifests |
| Virtualisation | Proxmox VE, VMware vSphere (govc, RVTools), Hyper-V (Get-VM), libvirt / KVM (virsh dumpxml) |
| Network devices | FortiGate backups, pfSense / OPNsense config.xml, MikroTik /export, Cisco IOS / IOS XE running-config, LLDP / CDP neighbours |
| Hosts | Linux addresses and routes (ip -j), SSH config, Ansible inventories |
| Inventories and monitoring | GLPI (REST or CSV), Zabbix host export, NetBox, nmap |
| Proxies | nginx, Traefik, HAProxy |
| Diagrams | draw.io, Mermaid, PlantUML / C4, Graphviz DOT |
| Anything else | CSV / spreadsheet, with a column mapping |
Importing
Section titled “Importing”- Open the board and choose Import, then drop one file or several.
- Check the preview: what will be added, what matches something already on the board, and what will be refreshed.
- Apply. The import is saved as a version of its own, marked as an import.
Matching what is already there
Section titled “Matching what is already there”Each imported element remembers which import drew it and its key in that source, so importing a newer export refreshes those elements rather than duplicating them. An element can also be matched by hand to the same machine from another source — a Proxmox VM and the same host found by a sweep — and keeps every source it was matched with.
A later sweep confirms an imported physical machine or VM when it finds a host at the declared address inside its range.
Limits
Section titled “Limits”At most 1000 devices and 5000 connections on a board saved by a person, and 50 import records per board.