Automation Change Manager (ACM)
- Viktoryia Varapayeva (Deactivated)
The Automation Change Manager (ACM) uses NetMRI scripts and other job automation features to enable the Automation Tasks feature set in the Infoblox NIOSTM Dashboard. You add a NetMRI appliance into an Infoblox Grid network to enable the Automation Change Manager functionality. With the proper licensing installed on both the NetMRI appliance and the Infoblox grid master, the ACM automation tasks enable the performance of the following tasks with a few mouse clicks:
- Network Provisioning: Define new IPv4 and IPv6 networks.
- Port Activation: Enable interfaces on selected switches and routers.
- VLAN Reassignment: Reassign and reconfigure VLAN port assignments.
- Bare Metal Provisioning: An automatically triggered task to detect and provision new switches and routers on the network. Bare Metal Provisioning (BMP) is most useful for bringing up many new deployments of the same device model with very similar configurations.
- Rogue DHCP Server Remediation: An automatically triggered task to detect and remediate devices on the network that are attempting to act as DHCP servers without authorization.
Automation Change Manager leverages NetMRI's job automation scripts to expand the functionality of the Infoblox NIOS Tasks Dashboard. Numerous NetMRI job features, including lists and job triggers, support the ACM functionality. The following topics describe the elements used to build the ACM system.