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The rst IPAM endpoint for vRealize Automation is created when you register the endpoint type for the
IPAM solution provider plug-in in vRealize Orchestrator.
Prerequisites
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“Obtain and Import the External IPAM Provider Package in vRealize Orchestrator,” on page 15.
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“Run the Workow to Register the Infoblox IPAM Endpoint Type in vRealize Orchestrator,” on page 16.
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Log in to the vRealize Automation console as an IaaS administrator.
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Congure the user credentials. See Conguring vRealize Automation.
For this example, create an Infoblox IPAM endpoint using an endpoint type that you registered in your
imported Infoblox VMware Plug-in for vCenter Orchestrator package.
Procedure
1 Select Infrastructure > Endpoints > Endpoints.
2 Select New > IPAM.
Select a registered external IPAM provider endpoint type such as Infoblox. External IPAM provider
endpoints are only available if you imported a third-party vRealize Orchestrator package, and run the
package workows to register the endpoint type.
For Infoblox IPAM, only primary IPAM endpoint types are listed. You can specify secondary IPAM
endpoint types by using custom properties.
For this example, select a registered external IPAM endpoint type, for example Infoblox NIOS.
3 Enter a name and, optionally, a description.
4 Enter the location of the registered IPAM endpoint in the Address text box using the provider-specic
URL format, for example hps:/host_name/name.
For example, you might create several IPAM endpoints, such as https://nsx62-scale-infoblox and
https://nsx62-scale-infoblox2, when you registered the IPAM endpoint type in
vRealize Orchestrator. Enter a primary registered endpoint type. To also specify one or more secondary
IPAM endpoints, you can use custom properties to emulate the extensible aributes that are specic to
the IPAM solution provider.
5 Enter the user name and password required to access the IPAM solution provider account.
The IPAM solution provider account credentials are required to create, congure, and edit the endpoint
when working in vRealize Automation. vRealize Automation uses the IPAM endpoint credentials to
communicate with the specied endpoint type, for example Infoblox, to allocate IP addresses and
perform other operations. This behavior is similar to how vRealize Automation uses vSphere endpoint
credentials.
6 (Optional) Click New in the Custom Properties section to add endpoint properties that are meaningful
to the specic IPAM solution provider.
Each IPAM solution provider, for example Infoblox and Bluecat, use unique extensible aributes that
you can emulate by using vRealize Automation custom properties. For example, Infoblox uses
extensible aributes to dierentiate primary and secondary endpoints.
7 Click OK.
What to do next
Add the compute resources from your endpoint to a fabric group. See “Create a Fabric Group,” on page 175.
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