Creating an extended integration for Automox assets and software

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Before you start

Adding your Automox credentials

Creating the asset integration

Creating custom mappings

Before you start

Best practice
For the integration with Oomnitza, create a dedicated user account.

Automox's REST API uses API Token/Key based authentication. To create an API Key, complete the following steps in Automox:

1. Navigate to Settings>Keys
2. Click Add
3. Copy your API key for use in Oomnitza.

For further information, refer to the Automox API documentation: API keys.

Adding your Automox credentials

To stream Automox user data into Oomnitza, complete the following steps:

1. In Oomnitza, click Configuration > Security > Credentials.
2. Click Add new credential (+).
3. Search for the integration, and then click the forward button > to select the integration.
4. Add your API key.
5. Click Create.

Integration not in the list? Click Advanced Mode and complete these steps:

1. Add the information details.
2. Click the AUTHORIZATION tab.
3. Ensure that API Key is selected as the Authorization type.
4. Ensure that the Token Name is Authorization
5. Enter "Bearer" followed by the API Key. For example,Bearer aefgd-adw3n-jknadd78l1kjndc.
6. Ensure that Add to Header is selected.
7. Click CREATE. 

Creating the asset integration

Information
When creating the asset integration, check Software to enable the retrieval of desktop software. At present, this asset integration only pulls Automox software where Is Managed is set to True in order to maintain a reasonable amount of records.

1. In Oomnitza, click Configuration> Integrations> Overview.
2. Click Integrations List View.
3. Scroll down to the Extended section for asset integrations.
4. Click NEW INTEGRATION.
5. Select the integration in the sidebar.
6. Click ADD.

Integration Overview

More information is provided about the following fields to help you complete the integration:

• Integration preferences:  By default,  Create and Update are selected. To ensure that only live user records are synced with Oomnitza, select Update Only. When you run the integration, you can check the error logs to see the records that weren't uploaded and why they weren't uploaded. Then, you can decide whether to upload the user records that were skipped by changing your integration preference back to Create and Update.

Integration details

To review or update the integrations details, click the pencil:

1. Update the integration name if necessary. 
2. For installation type, ensure that Cloud is selected.
3. For integration preferences, select an option.
4. Enter the name of the integration user.

Credential details

Choose one of the following options:

• Select the credentials that were created for the integration.
• Edit the credentials that were created for the integration.
• Create new credentials

Schedule

By default, user data is streamed to Oomnitza once every day.

You can configure the schedule to meet your needs such as changing the interval or changing the time so that the data is streamed when your system isn't busy.

1. Click the pencil.
2. Configure your schedule.
3. Click Update.

Mappings

To map the fields to Oomnitza, click the pencil.

Creating custom mappings

Map Automox fields to Oomnitza fields to get the asset information that you need. For the field mapping, it is recommended to follow these steps:

1. Click Smart Mapping.
2. Create custom mappings to map any other field that you want to add to Oomnitza:
   1. Click the down arrow on the field that you want to map.
   2. Select Add new Oomnitza assets field.
   3. Change the name of the field.
   4. Click CREATE. 
3. Assign a sync key to the Serial Number field. 
4. Click NEXT. 

Custom mappings

Agent Status
Agent Version
Auto Update Options
Auto Update Options Enabled
CPU
Compliant
Connected
Create Time
Custom Name
Deleted
Device Status
Display Name
Exception
ID
Instance ID
Is Delayed By Notification
Is Delayed By User
Last Disconnect Time
Last Logged-in User
Last Login Time
Last Process Time
Last Refresh Time
Last Scan Failed
Last Update Time
Model
Name
Needs Attention
Needs Reboot
Next Patch Time
Notification Count
OS Family
OS Name
OS Version
OS Version ID
Organization ID
Patch Deferral Count
Patches
Pending
Pending Patches
Policy Status
RAM
Reboot Deferral Count
Reboot Is Delayed By Notification
Reboot Is Delayed By User
Reboot Notification Count
Refresh Interval
Serial Number
Server Group ID
Timezone
Total Count
UUID
Update Source Check Connected
Update Source Check Error
Uptime
Vendor
Version

Did you know? 
You can define rules for your integration by selecting Edit integration at the top of the screen. For example, you may only want to run the integration if a certain contact or region exists. See Filtering integration results.  

You can add new fields to your integration by selecting the + (Add) option. All you need to do is specify the field name and then enter the JSON path, for example {{response.email}}. See Creating custom API fields. 

Launching the integration

Your integration is in Draft mode until all the required mandatory fields are added. Once you have added all of the required fields, we recommend that you complete the following steps

1. Select Launch to activate your integration.
2. Change your Integration preferences to Update only so that no records are imported and do a Test Run.
3. Click Sync Sessions and review the status of the integration. If you encounter any errors, see troubleshooting integrations.
4. When the test run has been completed, change your Integration preferences and click Run Now.

Getting your results
To view the information that is collected about your assets, click Assets. To view the information about software, click an asset and then click the Software tab. To view the information that is collected about your users, click People. 

Related Links

• Running an extended integration
• Troubleshooting integrations
• Mapping extended integrations

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