Automation Catalog (IAP 2022.1)

What is Automation Catalog?

When network automation is implemented with Automation Catalog, configuration changes are consistently applied across the infrastructure through pre-built specific tasks, making network management more efficient and easier to scale across more functional areas and departments within your enterprise. Users can also accelerate the roll out of new services and applications by creating new instantiations of an existing automation, with the ability to manually start or schedule single or recurring automations.

To access the application, select Automation Catalog in the left navbar of the IAP/2022.1 home page.

Once the Automation Catalog application displays, you can click the grid icon in the top toolbar to view all the automations available in Automation Catalog, or begin by clicking the appropriate icons to search or create an automation from the Get Started dialog box.

Automation Catalog | Home Page

Automation Catalog | Automations

Navigating the Automation Catalog UI

The main user interface (UI) for Automation Catalog is described below along with summary descriptions for various features and functionality.

Creating a New Automation

There are two ways to create an automation using Automation Catalog.

1. Click the plus (+) icon in the side navigation (1a).
2. Click the plus (+) icon on the blank card (1b).

After clicking the (+) icon, the Create Automation dialog will open. Once you to enter a name and description for your automation, click the Create button. You will be redirected to the collection view and the automation will be added to the collection list in the left sidebar.

Editing an Automation

There are three ways to edit automation details in Automation Catalog:

1. Click the title of the automation (3).
2. Click the stacked dots button to edit details (4).
3. Click the name of your automation in the left side navigation.

Within the automation, you can change multiple attributes.

Note: If working to access your form data from the automation canvas, please see Querying Form Data below.

Setting Automation Permissions

Click the cog icon at the top of the Automation Details page to open the Access Management panel, which allows you to assign user groups authorized to change and/or view an automation. By default, no group permissions are assigned, which grants all users permission to change, view, and execute an automation.

• To assign Read-Write permissions to a group, use the search bar to locate the appropriate group. Once all group selections are made, click Save.
• Groups with Write permissions are authorized to change, view, and execute an automation while Read-only groups have permission only to view and execute.
• If a Write group or Read-only group is set, then the counterpart group must also be defined; in other words, a Write group cannot be configured without at least one group specified as Read-only and vice versa.

Note: A warning message will appear if modifying these permissions will negatively impact the current user.

Running an Automation

There are two ways to run an automation using Automation Catalog.

You can press the Run Manually button (see image above). Alternately, from the Automations page, click the stacked dots menu button and select Run. Input the form data, if required. Then click Run.

Scheduling an Automation

To run an automation on a schedule, activate the Schedule switch slider. Once the switch is activated, set the schedule properties.

The following example is an automation that runs every evening at 10:30pm (from July 4th onward) and passes in the following data to an automation.

{
  "formData": {
    "name": "paul"
  }
}