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Gluware Lab and Pre-built Ansible, Linux, Python, and StackStorm Integrations

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Overview

The Gluware suite of applications provides turnkey capabilities to enable network discovery, inventory, drift monitoring, auditing and configuration management.

When features or integrations required by customers are not available as Gluware apps, Gluware staff and partners use Gluware Lab Integrated Development Environment (IDE) to rapidly extend capabilities, build network features and workflows and integrate API calls. Gluware Lab is now available for select customers to develop and extend Gluware themselves.

Key Benefits of Gluware Lab Integrated Data Modeling:

  • No scripting or development expertise is required
  • No need for Front-End (UI) building expertise
  • No need for Back-End (Database languages for SQL or MongoDB) expertise

The Gluware Lab programming capabilities enabled through JavaScript are also lightweight and powerful. JavaScript pairs well with the JSON-based data modeling and it is supported by chromium-based browsers.

Gluware Lab and Gluware Control Integration

Gluware Lab is built on the well-known Eclipse framework providing a rich-client platform desktop software. Its modular design leverages:

  • Gluware plug-ins
  • Open-source plug-ins
  • Eclipse plug-ins

Gluware Lab provides an all-in-one Gluware application stack with the full provisioning engine for end-to-end development, testing and deployment to Gluware Control. Lab also has extensive debugging capabilities for working through any issues.

Network Engineers/NetOps or developer/DevOps use Gluware Lab to develop and test modules that are then packaged and published for consumption in one or more Gluware Control instances. The distribution capabilities include:

  • A public and/or private Distribution Center and Distribution Areas
  • Built-in versioning
  • Dependency management
  • Offline package distribution supported through the use of Capsules
  • Action replay with Provisioning Bundles to bring issues back to Lab from production instances

Gluware Lab provides access to the underlying technology of Gluware enabled through JSON-based data modeling and JavaScript-based business logic components. While Gluware Lab uses standard JSON notation, it has multiple annotations for UI forms, data validation, classes and more. Using the Gluware data modeling enables:

  • Ability to build and customize UI forms
  • Data validation and constraints
  • Device definitions
  • Network feature definitions
  • Use of Network Development Kit (NDK) classes
  • Use of REST Development Kit (RDK) classes
  • And more…

Ansible Integration

Gluware Network RPA provides native integration with Ansible providing a “Run Ansible playbook” task users can drag and drop into any workflow. This provides the ability to integrate one or more playbooks into any Gluware workflow. The task will run the user-defined playbook, providing programmatic interaction with the results and logging of the interaction. This expands use cases that include:

  • Running pre and post-checks
  • Using playbooks to automate additional components like servers, storage and more
  • Expand coverage of compliance, security, verification and validation

Linux and Python Integration

Gluware Network RPA provides the ability to automate Linux hosts and run Python scripts with the ‘Run OS shell commands’ task. This task automates the process of SSH to a Linux host and runs any user-defined commands to accomplish the automation requirement. Automating commands on Linux hosts can include network and security settings, troubleshooting with ping and traceroute, monitoring, automating backups and more. A powerful capability of this task is to run scripts including Shell, Perl, Ruby, Python and any other supported scripting language.

Benefits of automating Linux commands and scripts with Gluware include:

  • Consistency and the elimination of human errors. Automating scripts ensures tasks are performed the same way across multiple hosts.
  • Efficiency and time savings through automating repetitive tasks that can include system updates, software updates, backups and monitoring.
  • Scalability and simplified orchestration by creating workflows in Network RPA that handle tasks across the network devices and servers for use cases including deploying applications or configuring services.

StackStorm Integration

Gluware Network RPA integrates with the open-source automation framework StackStorm providing the ability to ingest StackStorm integration packs and make them available as Network RPA tasks. StackStorm integration packs offer a broad array of integrations from cloud providers, monitoring, messaging and more.

Common StackStorm integration Use Cases Include:

  • Cloud providers including AWS and Azure
  • Monitoring and ITSM including Datadog, Nagios and ServiceNow
  • Messaging including Slack, Kafka and Rabbitmq 

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