Split webhooks documentation into the data model and installation sections

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Jeremy Stretch
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!!! note
If you encounter errors while installing the required packages, check that you're running a recent version of pip (v9.0.1 or higher) with the command `pip3 -V`.
### NAPALM Automation
### NAPALM Automation (Optional)
NetBox supports integration with the [NAPALM automation](https://napalm-automation.net/) library. NAPALM allows NetBox to fetch live data from devices and return it to a requester via its REST API. Installation of NAPALM is optional. To enable it, install the `napalm` package using pip or pip3:
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# pip3 install napalm
```
### Webhooks (Optional)
[Webhooks](../data-model/extras/#webhooks) allow NetBox to integrate with external services by pushing out a notification each time a relevant object is created, updated, or deleted. Enabling the webhooks feature requires [Redis](https://redis.io/), a lightweight in-memory database. You may opt to install a Redis sevice locally (see below) or connect to an external one.
**Ubuntu**
```no-highlight
# apt-get install -y redis-server
```
**CentOS**
```no-highlight
# yum install -y redis
```
Enabling webhooks also requires installing the [`django-rq`](https://github.com/ui/django-rq) package. This allows NetBox to use the Redis database as a queue for outgoing webhooks.
```no-highlight
# pip3 install django-rq
```
# Configuration
Move into the NetBox configuration directory and make a copy of `configuration.example.py` named `configuration.py`.
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In the case of a highly available installation with multiple web servers, `SECRET_KEY` must be identical among all servers in order to maintain a persistent user session state.
## Webhooks Configuration
If you have opted to enable the webhooks, set `WEBHOOKS_ENABLED = True` and define the relevant `REDIS` database parameters. Below is an example:
```python
WEBHOOKS_ENABLED = True
REDIS = {
'HOST': 'localhost',
'PORT': 6379,
'PASSWORD': '',
'DATABASE': 0,
'DEFAULT_TIMEOUT': 300,
}
```
# Run Database Migrations
Before NetBox can run, we need to install the database schema. This is done by running `python3 manage.py migrate` from the `netbox` directory (`/opt/netbox/netbox/` in our example):

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```no-highlight
# sudo supervisorctl restart netbox
```
If using webhooks, also restart the Redis worker:
```no-highlight
# sudo supervisorctl restart netbox-rqworker
```

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command = gunicorn -c /opt/netbox/gunicorn_config.py netbox.wsgi
directory = /opt/netbox/netbox/
user = www-data
[program:netbox-rqworker]
command = python3 /opt/netbox/netbox/manage.py rqworker
directory = /opt/netbox/netbox/
user = www-data
```
Then, restart the supervisor service to detect and run the gunicorn service: