Creating an extended integration for Infoblox assets

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This integration provides complete visibility of Infoblox assets in Oomnitza and the ability to transform information relating to devices discovered by Network Automation into consumable information and actionable insights. It also provides valuable information regarding the health and security of your network devices, such as whether a network device needs to be deprovisioned or moved to a different VLAN.

Connect Oomnitza and Infoblox in minutes

Get the information and insights that you need to reduce costs and the time that you spend on administration tasks such as:

• Configurable dashboards and list views of key asset and order information
• Configurable reports to share information about assets with your colleagues and management such as corporate-wide reports that detail the distribution and status of the devices discovered in your environment

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Before you start

Adding your Infoblox credentials

Creating the asset integration

Creating custom mappings

Before you start

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

For the integration with Oomnitza, you'll need the following information:

Infoblox username and password

The Infoblox WAPI (Web API) uses Basic Authentication. When you add your credentials in Oomnitza you will need to supply your NIOS (Network Identity Operating System) Grid master username and password.

Infoblox URL

You will also need to supply your NIOS Grid master URL to run the integration, i.e. https://(my.gridmaster.name).com

For further information, refer to the following documents:

• Infoblox WAPI quickstart Guide
• Infoblox REST API: NIOS 8.6
• Refer to InfoBlox: Logging on to the NIOS UI for information on how to login to an NIOS Grid master UI.

Adding your Infoblox credentials

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

1. In Oomnitza, go to Configuration>Security>Credentials.
2. Click Add new credential (+).
3. Search for the integration, and then click the forward button > to select the integration.
4. Enter the user name and password of your account
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 Basic Auth is selected as the authorization type.
4. Enter the user name and password of your account.
5. Click Create. 

Creating the asset integration

To configure the integration for the Infoblox Asset Load, complete the following steps:

1. In Oomnitza, click Configuration> Integrations> Overview.
2. Click Block 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 details overview

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

Installation type

Select Cloud if you want to store credentials in the Oomnitza cloud.

Select Local if you want to store credentials locally. Local extended integrations do not support AWS and OAuth authentication. If you want to sync Oomnitza with vendor applications that require AWS or OAUTH authentication, select Cloud.

Integration preferences

By default, the option Create & Update option is selected. Select this option  when you want to edit records and add new records. If you want to edit records and not add new records, select Update Only. If you only want to add new records, select Create Only.

Integration details

To review or update the integrations details, click Edit .

1. Update the integration name if necessary. 
2. Select an installation type.
3. For integration preferences, select an option.
4. Enter the name of the integration user.

Credential details

If you selected Cloud as the installation type, 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, 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 Edit .
2. Configure your schedule.
3. Click Update.

Mappings

To map the fields to Oomnitza, click Edit .

You can define rules for your integration by selecting Edit integration on the mapping page. 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 Add new field   on the mapping page. All you need to do is specify the property name. See Creating custom API fields. 

Creating custom mappings

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

1. You have the option to create custom mappings to map any other field that you want to add to Oomnitza. To create an optional custom mapping, do the following:
   1. Click the down arrow on the field that you want to map.
   2. Select Add new Oomnitza users field.
   3. Change the name of the field.
   4. Click CREATE. 
2. Map the Chassis Serial Number to the Serial Number field and assign a sync key. 
3. Click UPDATE.

Custom mappings

Address
Address Ref
Available Mgmt Ips List
Cap Admin Status Na Reason
Cap Description Na Reason
Cap Net Deprovisioning Na Reason
Cap Net Provisioning Na Reason
Cap Net Vlan Provisioning Na Reason
Cap Vlan Assignment Na Reason
Cap Voice Vlan Na Reason
Chassis Serial Number
Connect: Credentials
Connect: Infoblox URL
Connector Sync Time
Description
Is Cap Admin Status Ind
Is Cap Description Ind
Is Cap Net Deprovisioning Ind
Is Cap Net Provisioning Ind
Is Cap Net Vlan Provisioning Ind
Is Cap Vlan Assignment Ind
Is Cap Voice Vlan Ind
Location
Model
Name
Network
Network View
Os Version
Type
User Defined Mgmt Ip
Vendor

Launching the integration

Your integration is in Draft mode until the required mandatory fields are added. When added, click Launch to activate your integration. 

If you selected Cloud as the installation type when creating the integration, see Running an extended integration

If you selected Local as the installation type when creating the integration, see Running an extended integration locally.

Viewing data ingested by Oomnitza

Viewing ingested asset data

For asset integrations, click Hardware. If the asset integration also ingests software data, click Software.

Viewing ingested user data

For user integrations, click People. If you chose the option to ingest User and SaaS user data, click Software > SaaS, click the SaaS app, and then click the Users tab. 

Related Links

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

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• Configure dashboards for your users and software
• Configure custom reports about your users and software
• Create workflows to automate tasks

See  Getting started for more information.