RackAstley

Draw Server Room/Data Centre Racks diagrams in plain text from yaml or user input. Rack diagram automatically copied to clipboard.

Plain text rack diagrams. Never gonna give them up!

Instructions

1. clone repo
2. pip install -r requirements.txt (probably best in a venv) eg:

python3 -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate

3. (optional) create a rack layout yaml using template example
4. run python3 RackAstley.py

Usage:

Rack items can be printed to clipboard/screen individually or you can define a rack in yaml.

For yaml import, a sample is provided. Each rack item has a name, a position (the U value that device starts at) and the height of that item. Gaps can be left for unfilled rack positions. Also there's a name for the rack and height in U of the whole rack (usually 42).

Sample yaml

rack:
  name: Rack1
  height: 24
  devices:
    - name: UPS
      position: 1
      size: 2
    - name: Firewall
      position: 3
      size: 1
    - name: WebServer01
      position: 4
      size: 1
    - name: WebServer02
      position: 5
      size: 1
    - name: Switch
      position: 6
      size: 2

Sample output:

[RACK Rack1]
[24] 
[23] 
[22] 
[21] 
[20] 
[19] 
[18] 
[17] 
[16] 
[15] 
[14] 
[13] 
[12] 
[11] 
[10] 
[09] 
[08] 
[07] ┌───Switch──────────{2U}─┐
[06] └────────────────────────┘
[05]〘====WebServer02===={1U}═〙
[04]〘====WebServer01===={1U}═〙
[03]〘=====Firewall======{1U}═〙
[02] ┌───UPS─────────────{2U}─┐
[01] └────────────────────────┘

Notes:

• Double width characters used for 2 ends of 1U units, if you wish to change this you'll have to edit the code to allow for single width character after the rack position.
• Box drawing characters are used for any items 2U and larger.