How to Build an Itential Workflow Series: Part 3 – Integration & Data Transformation

Getting started with automating network infrastructure requires a logical, step-by-step approach. You should start simple with a relevant use case and translate the process into a series of logical tasks. Then, you can build out integrations and surrounding processes to ensure it works with your infrastructure and meets your standards. Last, you will implement your tasks until the workflow is complete.

In the third part of the Building Network Automation Workflows with Itential demo series, we will continue to build upon the workflow from the previous demo. Now that your use case is fully built out with the pre-check, network change, and post-check processes, it’s time to add in integrations with the systems in your ecosystem and data transformation between those systems. This allows for a fully automated end-to-end process.

In this demo, Rich Martin, Director of Technical Marketing at Itential, shows step-by-step how to:

• Self-generate an integration using an OpenAPI specification file from NetBox.
• Utilize newly integrated API tasks for IP Address requests and Inventory query.
• Create a Data Transformation to manipulate data for network changes.
• Build, run, and test the workflow using Operations Manager.