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Parent Child devices in rack #5437

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One example is we have a network device with 4 bays one bays is taken by the management controller, 2 bays by 48 port cat6 ethernet switch modules, and last module taken by fiber module.

That's not how device bays are intended to be used in Netbox. "Device bays" are for independently managed devices which sit in an outer, rack-mounted housing - most commonly blade servers in a shared chassis. Apart from sharing power, they are independent devices.

For your use case, you should model the network device as a regular Device, and the management controller and ethernet modules as Inventory Items. Create the ethernet ports directly on the Device. (Currently it's not possible to put ports on a…

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