Plug-ins installed with the Automation Orchestrator server
Automation Orchestrator
serverAutomation Orchestrator
includes a collection of standard plug-ins. Each
plug-in exposes an external product API to the Automation Orchestrator
platform. Plug-ins provide inventory classes, additional
object types for the scripting engine, and publish notification events from the external
system. Each plug-in also provides a library of workflows for automating the typical use
cases of the integrated external products. You can see the list of installed plug-ins on the
Manage
Plug-Ins
page in Control Center.Plug-In
| Purpose
| Configuration
|
|---|---|---|
Active Directory | Provides interaction between Automation Orchestrator and Microsoft Active
Directory. | |
AMQP | Interact with Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP) servers, also
known as brokers. | |
Auto Deploy | Perform different operations associated with
vCenter server ESXi hosts. | |
Configuration
| Provides workflows for configuring and managing the Automation Orchestrator
server keystores and trusted certificates. | None
|
Dynamic Types | Define dynamic types and create and use objects of these dynamic types. | |
Enumeration | Provides common Enumerated Types that can be used in workflows by
other plug-ins. | See Time Zone Codes |
HTTP-REST | Manage REST Web services through an interaction between Automation Orchestrator and
REST hosts. | |
Library | Provides workflows that act as basic building blocks for customization and
automation of client processes. The workflow library includes
templates for life-cycle management, provisioning, disaster
recovery, hot backup, and other standard system management
processes. You can copy and edit the templates to modify them
according to your needs. | None
|
Mail
| Uses Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) to
send email from workflows.
| Set the default values
for the
EmailMessage object to
use.
|
Multi-Node | Contains workflows for hierarchical management, management of
Automation Orchestrator instances, and scale-out of
Automation Orchestrator activities. | |
Net
| Uses the Jakarta Apache Commons Net Library. Provides implementations of
the Telnet, FTP, POP3, and IMAP protocols. The POP3 and IMAP
protocols is used for reading email. With the Mail plug-in, the Net
plug-in provides complete email sending and receiving capabilities
in workflows. | |
PowerShell | Manage PowerShell hosts and run custom PowerShell operations. | |
SNMP | Connect and receive information from SNMP-enabled systems and devices. | |
SOAP | Manage SOAP Web services by providing interaction between Automation Orchestrator and
SOAP hosts. | |
SQL | Provides the Java Database Connectivity (JDBC)
API, which is the industry standard for database-independent
connectivity between the Java programming language and a wide range
of databases. The databases include SQL databases and other tabular
data sources, such as spreadsheets or flat files. The JDBC API
provides a call-level API for SQL-based database access from
workflows. | |
SSH | Provides an implementation of the Secure Shell v2 (SSH-2) protocol.
Allows remote command and file transfer sessions with password and
public key-based authentication in workflows. Supports
keyboard-interactive authentication. Optionally, the SSH plug-in can
provide remote file system browsing directly in the Automation Orchestrator Client
inventory. | See Add an SSH Host. |
vCenter | Provides access to the vCenter API so that you can incorporate all the
vCenter objects and functions into the management
processes that you automate by using Automation Orchestrator . | |
vCloud Suite API (vAPI) | Provides access to the API services exposed by any
vAPI provider. | |
VMware Aria Automation | The plug-in comes pre-installed with Automation Orchestrator
deployments that are embedded in VMware Aria Automation . Integrates Automation Orchestrator with
VMware Aria Automation . | |
vSphere Update Manager (VUM) | Provides interaction between Automation Orchestrator and VMware vSphere Update
Manager/vSphere Lifecycle Manager. | |
XML | A complete Document Object Model (DOM) XML parser that you can
implement in workflows. Alternatively, you can use the ECMAScript
for XML (E4X) implementation in the Automation Orchestrator
JavaScript API. |
Plug-In
Components
The components of each plug-in, such as workflow
categories and API modules, use different naming conventions.
Plug-In Name in the Configuration UI | Workflow Categories | API Module |
|---|---|---|
Active Directory | Computer Configuration Organizational Unit User User Group | AD |
AMQP | Configuration | AMQP |
Auto Deploy | Answer Files Configuration Reprovision Host Rules Rule Set
Compliance | AutoDeploy |
Configuration | Configuration | Configurator |
Dynamic Types | Configuration | DynamicTypes |
Common enumerated types | None | Enums |
HTTP-REST | Configuration | REST |
Library | Locking Orchestrator Tagging | Not applicable. |
Mail | Mail | Mail |
Orchestrator Multi-Node | Servers Configuration Remote Execution Remote Management Tasks Workflows | VCO |
Net | None | Net |
PowerShell | Configuration Generate Templates | PowerShell |
SNMP | Device Management Query Management Trap Host Management | SNMP |
SOAP | Configuration | SOAP |
SQL | JDBC SQL | SQL |
SSH | SSH | SSH |
Support | None | Support |
vAPI | VAPI | VAPI |
vCenter | vCenter | VC |
VMware Aria Automation | Configuration Infrastructure | VRA |
vSphere Update Manager | Configuration | VUM |
XML | XML | XML |