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Hitachi Ops Center Automator is a software solution that provides the tools to automate and simplify end-to-end data management tasks such storage provisioning process for storage and data center administrators. The building blocks of the product are prepackaged automation templates known as service templates. This page provides documentation for Hitachi Ops Center Automator v10.6.1 or later.
- System requirements
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- This module gives the system requirements for installation.
- Install
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- You can install Ops Center Automator using any of these methods. After installation, verify that the installation is successful and configure your environment as necessary.
- Installing Ops Center Automator in a cluster environment (Windows OS)
- Installing Ops Center Automator on the Windows operating system
- Installing Ops Center Automator on the Linux operating system
- Removing Ops Center Automator on a Windows operating system
- Removing Ops Center Automator on a Linux operating system
- Removing Ops Center Automator on a Windows cluster system
- About Ops Center Common Services
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- Hitachi Ops Center Common Services is a component that provides single sign-on functionality and a portal site for Ops Center products. When you log in to the Ops Center Portal, the portal shows a list of registered Ops Center products.
- Configure
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- After installation, configure your environment to match the needs and requirements of your business. For example, change your IP address, URL, or ports.
- Configure security for Ops Center Automator
- Start and stop services
- Change Ops Center Automator management server settings for your environment
- Changing the Ops Center Automator management server URL
- Agentless connection requirements
- ServiceNow workflow integration
- About ServiceNow ticketing service templates
- About Ansible integration
- Moving Ops Center Automator to another host
- Moving Common Services to another host
- Running Ops Center Automator without an external network configuration
- Changing the password policy
- Configuring remote machine connection information for plug-ins and services
- Configuring email notifications
- Changing the system configuration
- Restoring predefined storage profiles to default settings
- Manage users
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- Manage users and groups that need access to Ops Center Automator.
- Editing your own user profile
- Changing your own password
- Deleting users
- Configuring external authentication for groups
- Configuring external authentication for users
- User ID and password policies
- Changing the lock status of user accounts
- Changing permissions for a user account
- Viewing permissions
- Editing the profile for a user account
- Creating a user account
- Viewing users
- About user roles
- Built-in user accounts
- Automation services
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- Create, release, and submit services with the Automation Director interface.
- Automation tasks
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- Manage the scheduled with the Automation Director interface.
- Service templates
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- Ops Center Automator provides preconfigured service templates to assist in creating automation services. Each template includes service details that include a list of properties, values, and settings.
- Service template prerequisites
- Service template supported platforms
- Allocate volumes service templates
- Clean up Online Migration Pairs service template
- Data mobility service templates
- ESX cluster service templates
- ESXi host service templates
- Expand Volumes service template
- File share service templates
- Global-Active Device service template
- IO control service templates
- Online migration service templates
- Online migration with Configuration Manager service templates
- Create Online Migration Pair: Service details
- Migrate Data for Online Migration Pair: Service details
- ServiceNow ticketing service templates
- Smart Allocation for Oracle Databases template
- Service templates that use Device Manager
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- Ops Center Automator provides preconfigured service templates to assist in creating automation services. Each template includes service details that include a list of properties, values, and settings.
- Services catalog: Device Manager
- Service template prerequisites: Device Manager
- Service template supported platforms: Device Manager
- Allocate Like Volumes service templates
- Allocate volumes service templates
- Clone (ShadowImage) service templates
- Create Datastore on VMware vSphere service templates
- File share service templates
- Oracle database expansion service templates
- Remote replication service templates
- Snapshot (Thin Image) service templates
- Symmetric cluster service templates
- Additional service templates
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- Ops Center Automator provides preconfigured service templates to assist in creating automation services. Each template includes service details that include a list of properties, values, and settings.
- Use Service Builder
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- Ops Center Automator Service Builder provides a powerful interface for managing and creating Service Templates that automate the execution of tasks and supply the necessary operating parameters required to provision and allocate storage resources and automate IT processes.
- API Resources
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- The Ops Center Automator API is a REST (representational state transfer) interface that includes the following resource command sets. In addition, there are several use case articles that provide example information.
- Global-Active Device Setup service properties
- Allocate volumes with Configuration Manager service properties
- Allocate volumes with Smart Provisioning service properties
- Clone (Shadow Image) service properties
- Snapshot (Thin Image) service properties
- Allocate volumes with Clone/Snapshot service properties
- Allocate Volumes with Remote Replication (Global-Active Device) service properties
- Allocate like volumes service properties
- Allocate like volumes with Configuration Manager service properties
- VMware service properties
- Expand Volume Capacity service properties
- Allocate Volumes service properties
- Online Migration with Configuration Manager service properties
- Oracle service properties
- Smart Allocation for Oracle Databases service properties
- Allocate volumes for a symmetric cluster server from two storage systems service properties
- Allocate like volumes for a symmetric cluster server from two storage systems service properties
- Create file share service properties
- Create file share (edit)
- Create file share (submit)
- Create file share (submit)
- Configure CIFS/NFS for Hitachi service properties
- Configure CIFS/NFS for Hitachi (edit)
- Configure CIFS/NFS for Hitachi (submit)
- Configure CIFS/NFS for Hitachi (task details)
- Allocate Volumes with 2DC Remote Replication service properties
- Allocate like replicated volumes on existing copy topology service properties
- Allocate replicated volumes on existing copy topology service properties
- Allocate replicated volumes on new copy topology service properties
- Add host to cluster in vCenter service properties
- Remove host from cluster in vCenter service properties
- Allocate Volumes, Fabric, and Datastore for ESXi Host service properties
- Allocate fabric aware volumes and create datastore for ESX cluster service properties
- Allocate fabric aware volumes service properties
- Allocate fabric aware volumes with Configuration Manager service properties
- Allocate volumes from virtual storage machine service properties
- Create high availability pair for migration service properties
- Migrate data using high availability pair service properties
- Export VSM configuration information across sites service properties
- Troubleshooting the APIs
- Service resources
- Schedule resources
- Task resources
- Task history resources
- Property definition resources
- Property value resources
- Service group resources
- Service template resources
- Property information resources
- Property group resources
- Task log resources
- Tag and tag group resources
- External server connection resources
- Host resources
- Storage system resources
- Getting user and version information resources
- Troubleshooting the APIs
- Running a smart provisioning service with the REST API
- Modifying a smart provisioning service with the REST API
- Finding and updating services - use cases
- Creating and submitting service requests - use cases
- Finding and managing tasks - use cases
- CLI commands
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- A set of Ops Center Automator and Common Component commands are available to run on the command line interface (CLI).
- Video Tutorials
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- Hitachi Ops Center Automator is a software solution that provides the necessary tools to automate and simplify the end-to-end storage provisioning process for storage and data center administrators. The building blocks of the product are preconfigured automation templates known as services. This video provides an overview and step-by-step instructions for setting up and submitting a Automator service.
- Automate Storage Provisioning in ServiceNow using Ops Center Automator
- Online migration with Ops Center Automator and Configuration Manager
- Online migration with Ops Center Automator and Protector
- Provisioning storage for VMware with Ops Center Automator
- Resolving a capacity issue by running an Ops Center Automator Add VMware Datastore service with Ops Center Analyzer
- Setting up and submitting an Ops Center Automator storage provisioning service
- Smart Provisioning with Ops Center Automator