vRO (VMware Aria Automation Orchestrator, formerly vRealize Orchestrator) is one of the best automation tools. It allows you to connect any information systems built on different technologies and interacting via different protocols into a single system. For the most common systems and protocols, there are already ready-made plug-ins (plug-in modules) and/or process packages that provide vRO with access to the functions of these IT systems.
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vRO: ManageIQ Management Suite
Initial setup of IT systems often requires a very large amount of configuration. Creating a private cloud on ManageIQ is a very good example. While setting up infrastructure in ManageIQ is a one-time task that usually does not require automation, creating hundreds of teams, their projects, setting up quotas and rights is not a task for manual execution. Fortunately, all ManageIQ functions are available via REST API requests.
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To work with remote devices via SSH, Aria Automation Orchestrator (formerly vRealize Orchestrator) has an SSH Plug-in. However, this plugin does not work as expected. It implements SSHHostManager and SSHHost objects and has a set of host management processes. But all the useful work is performed by the SSHSession object, which is not related to SSHHost objects.
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When changing the IPAM supplier, it is necessary to quickly integrate the new IPAM with other information systems. Our main clients with IPAM are the private cloud on vRealize Automation and the vRealize Orchestrator process automation system. This article describes the implementation of the vRA 8 plugin for phpIPAM.
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Early tests of migrating virtual machines from vRA7 to vRA8 showed that migrated machines do not register with the integrated IPAM. You won’t be able to use it on subnets where there is already a VM – an external IPAM is required. Our SolarWinds IPAM does not have a ready-made integration with vRA8, so we developed the plugin ourselves.
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