Key Features

Key Features

Automation Gateway is a robust, standalone application that runs as its own REST-ful process. It has many different feature sets, or integrations, which can be used to manage a wide range of devices.

Automation Gateway

As a network automation solution, Automation Gateway:

• Enables connectivity and interactivity with an extremely wide range of devices.
• Leverages multiple libraries and execution styles from pure Python to Ansible Runner to shell scripting.
• Returns discovered elements as JSON-Schema models which can be enhanced to handle user inputs.
• Secures access via presentation of user/password credentials.
• Natively supports the HTTP protocol and HTTPS via proxy for client/server communication.
• Supports multiple inventory systems (Ansible, Nornir, etc) and sources (internal or external) for managing devices.
• Provides a stateless server and has no requirements on redundancy roles.

Automation Gateway integrates with the automation tools listed below. Functional attributes regarding each automation tool are provided.

Ansible

• Discover and execute the network family of Ansible modules.
• Discover and execute Ansible certified roles.
• Discover and execute any Ansible playbooks.
• Discover and execute any Ansible Collections.
• Install Ansible Galaxy Collections.
• Enable intelligent Ansible module/role/playbook decorations to specify and validate the required input parameters.
• Access and update Ansible hosts (inventory).

Nornir

• Discover and execute user provided Nornir modules.
• Enable intelligent Nornir module decorations to specify and validate the required input parameters.
• Access Nornir configuration and hosts (inventory).

Netmiko

• Establish connections with a wide range of Netmiko-supported devices.
• Execute the send_command function to gather data from devices.
• Execute the send_config_set function to configure devices.

Terraform

• Discover and execute user provided Terraform modules.
• Enable intelligent Terraform module decorations to specify and validate the required input parameters.
• Execute Terraform actions such as Initialize, Plan, Apply, Destroy, Validate.

Custom Scripts

• Discover and execute user provided scripts in the user defined scripting environment (shell, Python, etc).
• Enable intelligent script decorations to specify and validate the required input parameters.