Extend supported Parent Types for Services to include IPAM > IP Addresses

[rboucher-me]

NetBox version

v4.3.3

Feature type

Change to existing functionality

Proposed functionality

This request is to extend the currently supported Parent Types for Services to support IPAM > IP Addresses. Currently, the following Parent Types are supported:

Use case

This capability would allow results from network port scans (from tools such as Nmap) to be modelled in NetBox by associating the active IP Addresses to the discovered open ports ("Services"). Currently, these associations require a parent Device (or FHRP Group, or VM) and don't allow modelling of services for all active IP Addresses.

Database changes

No identified database changes.

External dependencies

No identified external dependencies

[jeremystretch]

Closing per our discussion earlier; we'll explore alternative approaches for the use case.