Regions

Regions are administrative domains, used to organize Sites and other Regions. They can be nested recursively. A Region might represent a continent, country, city, campus, or other area. A Region can contain Sites and other Regions.

Additional information on Regions is in the Regions section of the Nautobot documentation.

In the following exercise, we will create three Regions:

• North America
  • Intended to hold Regions that represent each component country
• Canada
  • Intended to hold Regions that represent markets in Canada
• Vancouver
  • Intended to hold Sites within the Vancouver market

Creating a Region

To create a Region:

1. Click on Organization in the top menu
2. Click on Regions in the Organization drop-down menu
   • From this page you can view any existing Regions
3. Click on the blue + Add button

The screenshots below show the creation of each Region.

North America:

1. Leave the Parent blank; North America will be a top-tier Region
2. Populate the Name to be North America
   • The Slug will auto-populate based on the Name field, but can be manually overwritten
3. Click on the Create and Add Another button

Canada:

1. Select North America as the Parent from the drop-down menu selector
2. Populate the Name to be Canada
   • The Slug will auto-populate based on the Name field, but can be manually overwritten
3. Click on the Create and Add Another button

Vancouver:

1. Select Canada as the Parent from the drop-down menu selector
2. Populate the Name to be Vancouver
   • The Slug will auto-populate based on the Name field, but can be manually overwritten
3. Click on the Create button

Adding a Site to a Region

It's quite easy to add an existing Site to a Region.

To access the page where you can modify a Site:

1. Click on Organization in the top navigation menu
2. Click on Sites in the drop-down menu
3. The Sites page will appear; click on the specific Site you want to modify (Vancouver 1 in this example shown).
4. On the page for the Site, click on the Edit button

Once you're on the Editing site form:

1. Look for the Region drop-down selection menu and select the appropriate Region
2. Observe that the correct Region for the Site is selected
3. Click on the Update button

The page for the Site you updated will appear again, showing the updated Region hierarchy for the Site.

Note

In the example, notice that we assigned the Vancouver 1 Site to Vancouver, which is tier-3 Region. Notice that the Regional hierarchy is displayed for the Vancouver 1 Site: North America / Canada / Vancouver