We know. We know.
You’ve been waiting. You’ve been patient. You’ve been this guy, asleep on the data centre floor, waiting for a NOC to change a MAC access-list.
But it’s here! NZIX Member Portal Automation is live and it was worth the wait.
So what actually took so long?
Honestly? We built it properly.
Under the hood, the team has spent the past six to eight months rebuilding the foundations: a new automation engine, API integrations with Netbox, PeeringDB and IRRDB, a completely restructured change request data model, route server pushes via Ansible, and a security and permissions framework that means you’re only ever touching your own stuff. The result is an automation platform we can build on: not a quick fix that creates more problems than it solves.
What can you do with it?
- MAC Address Changes: update your MAC address directly from the portal. No NOC. No ticket. No waiting. Just done. (Yes, really.)
- Other Peering Services: IP allocation, BGP session configuration and VLAN, all automated
- Port Orders: automatic LOA generation and instant port deployment
- Port Upgrades: convert to LACP or add additional ports (downgrades excluded for now -but honestly, who’s downgrading? 😏)
- Peering Services: IP allocation, BGP session configuration, VLAN and MAC address deployment and changes, all automated
- Service Migrations: move all services from one port to another (currently only peering, but other product types not implemented are supported too)
- Cancellations: automated, with our existing billing period structure (some manual crediting still applies, we’re not completely hands-off yet)
All of it self-service. Most completed in minutes. 24/7.
What’s coming? (Maybe. Soon. We’re not promising anything.)
We’re not done. Here’s what’s in the pipeline, subject to the usual caveats about software development timelines and the laws of physics:
- Health Status: live link state, errors, congestion, light levels, route server status, missing bilaterals. Know what’s happening with your services without having to ask us.
- Notifications : health alerts, mailing lists per exchange, enhanced maintenance and outage notifications
- Flow Metrics: because numbers are good
- New Products: 400G member ports (vendor interop testing underway), VLL (virtual leased line / point-to-point circuits), and Secondary Peering for an easy on-ramp to the IX
Watch this space.
