IPAM 4.6.1 - vRO Workflows

Noticed something odd today while working on getting vRO/vRA to play nice with the solarwinds IPAM.

Here is my overall processs

1. Import IPAM pack into vRO

2. Add a IPAM host via the 'SolarWinds IPAM' workflows per documentation here Integrate SolarWinds IPAM with VMware vRealize Orchestrator - SolarWinds Worldwide, LLC. Help and Support

3. Register the host to vRA per Integrate SolarWinds IPAM with VMware vRealize Automation - SolarWinds Worldwide, LLC. Help and Support making sure to use adminstrator@vsphere.local for the login info

4. within vRA - configured the IPAM endpoint. NOTE: do not put HTTP/HTTPS in the url here there is a part of the workflow that adds this prefix and you will end up with it twice in the swis call and it will fail)

5. within vRA - created a network profile using my SW IPAM endpoint, picked the right address space and range

6. saved network profile

So now i switched back to vRO and refreshed by console. noticed i now have 7 IPAM endpoints under my inventory. The one I made in step 2, and then 6 new ones.

Looking at the 'Get Address Spaces' and 'Get IP Ranges' workflows, it looks like they both have the same 'Add IPAM Host' that i ran in part 2, as part of their workflow.

It looks like it is used to generate the 'SWIS_host' parameter for the next step in the script 'SWIS request'.

Is this the intended behavior for these workflows? to add an IPAM endpoint everytime the Network profile is used/edited? or is there a "Get IPAM Host" workflow that should be in there instead.

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maryan.dmytriv

"Get IPAM Host" workflow is on product roadmap.

maryan.dmytriv

please follow this steps IPAM vRO plugin creates multiple HTTP REST hosts - SolarWinds Worldwide, LLC. Help and Support how to avoid creating of new hosts.

Also you can create scriptable task to remove all REST hosts with code

var getHosts = RESTHostManager.getHosts();

var removeRestHostWorkflow = getWorkflow("Library/HTTP-REST/Configuration", "Remove a REST host");

for(var restHostId in getHosts){

var restHost = RESTHostManager.getHost(getHosts[restHostId])

RESTHostManager.removeHost(restHost.id);

}

function getWorkflow(workflowPath, workflow){

var workflows = Server.getWorkflowCategoryWithPath(workflowPath).allWorkflows

for each(var workflowObject in workflows) {

if (workflow == workflowObject.name) {

return workflowObject;

}

return null;

}

dsimpkins

Any news on this making it into production?

We are just about to leverage the same functionality and have found the same thing in 4.8.1 and in the RC for 4.9.

Also found that the password is displayed in the info/debug logs in the allocate workflow.