How to Build an Itential Workflow – Part 4: Building Your Modular Automation Library
In the fourth part of the “How to Build Network Automations with Itential” webinar demo series learn how to leverage modular automation assets to build flexible and reusable workflows.
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Getting started with automating network infrastructure requires a logical, step-by-step approach. You should start simple with a relevant use case and translate the process into a series of logical tasks. Then, you can build out integrations and surrounding processes to ensure it works with your infrastructure and meets your standards. Last, you will implement your tasks until the workflow is complete.
In the fourth part of the demo series on How to Build an Automated Workflows with Itential, we continue building on the previous workflow. Now that you can fully automate your use case end-to-end, it’s time to take it a step further and explore how you can build flexible and reusable content pieces that can be standardized and centralized for maximum control and compliance for end-to-end network automation.
In this demo, Rich Martin, Director of Technical Marketing at Itential, shows step-by-step how to:
• Build modular child workflows for common processes that can be reused by other team members in other workflows.
• Use a ServiceNow integration for common tasks like ‘Open and Update Change Request Tickets’.
• Access MS Teams integration to notify teams of an automation’s status.
• Leverage Data Transformations for formatting data between workflows.
• Extend current workflow to use any modular, child workflows.
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Chapters
00:00 Introduction & Demo Overview
03:12 Overview of the Current Workflow
07:50 Review of Workflow for NetBox IP Query
09:02 Run & Test NetBox Workflow & Set Job Variable to Output
15:00 Update Parent Workflow with a Child Job Task to Run Another Workflow
19:01 Review Transformation Task to Include New Data from Modular Workflow
23:46 Use Modular Workflow from the Itential Pre-Built Library
26:02 Look at a ServiceNow Create Change Request Modular Workflow
28:57 Discover How a Modular Workflow can Receive Variables from a Parent Workflow
30:36 Run, Test, & Verify the Parent Workflow & Validate Modular Workflow Operation
36:15 Verify New Change Request Ticket Creation & State Update in ServiceNow
37:00 Conclusion
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Itential is the leading platform for network automation and orchestration. With the Itential Automation Platform, NetOps teams can deploy services faster, simplify network change management, maintain security with standardized configuration management and automate network operations at scale.
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