Administering Automation Director
Viewing the Administration tab
The
Administration
tab includes the views and tools to set up and configure Automation Director. It
includes the necessary connection settings to other hosts and third-party products, and the tools to set up
users, groups, permissions, and relationships, as follows:
• Create agentless remote connections to register hosts and, if necessary, set up the Web Services
Connections.
• Manage properties shared among the services under Shared Properties Settings.
• View and configure groups:
◦ Based on roles (Submit, Modify, Develop, and Admin) and permissions (user management).
◦ By service groups.
◦ By infrastructure groups.
• View and manage users.
• Set up external resource providers that can supply data for evaluating and executing input and output
properties.
Setup workflow
To set up the product, make sure you have the
Admin
role in Automation Director.
The following steps summarize the initial setup workflow:
1.
Register a license.
Before you can log on to Automation Director, you must register a valid license.
2.
Log on to Automation Director.
Use the built-in system account to log on to Automation Director for the first time. Change the system
account password (recommended).
3.
Configure Web Service Connections.
Register and manage connection information to vCenter connections, Brocade Network Advisor
connections, and so on.
4.
Configure remote connections.
Register other hosts using agentless remote connections.
5.
Set up users and user groups.
Automation Director users are automatically registered through the Hewlett Packard Enterprise XP7
Command View Advanced Edition Common Component. The Admin role in Hewlett Packard
Enterprise XP7 Command View Advanced Edition with the user management permission is required to
add and assign users to user groups in Automation Director. A user must belong to at least one user
group.
6.
Set up infrastructure groups.
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