Azure Automation

Accelerate delivery of digital services by including Azure tasks in your automated business process workflows. Achieve end-to-end automation for instant digital delivery.

Package Details

• Vendor: Microsoft
• Target Platform: Windows Universal
• Package Type: Server and Workstation Management

Why use this

Trigger Azure runbooks from within Hornbill to automate workloads as part of your business processes

Example: If a developer needs a test server, they can use the Hornbill service catalog to quickly request access to a suitable server within their organizations public or private Azure cloud. As part of the delivery process, Hornbill triggers an Azure runbook to create a test server matching their needs, providing them with access in just a few seconds. Likewise, the server can be deleted on request as soon as the developer has finished using it. The whole developer experience is very quick and painless. Time is saved, shortening the development cycle.

Benefits

• Control Azure from the service desk, business process workflows, or runbooks
• Accelerate service restoration
• Accelerate dev and test cycles with faster provisioning of compute resources

How to get it

• You can try out ITOM for free (not for production use, limited runs) by installing the ITOM application from the Hornbill App Store.
• If you would like to explore ITOM and consider subscribing, please contact your account manager here.

Requirements

• Install the Hornbill Site Integration Server inside your firewall (if you don’t already have it)
• The Az PowerShell must be installed on the machine that will be executing the scripts
• PowerShell v5.x
• If the script execution policy on the machine executing these operations is set to Restricted, then this will need to be updated to RemoteSigned. See the Microsoft website for more information.

Authentication

When creating jobs for operations contained within this package, they need to be run on the target machine as a user who has the correct privileges within your environment. To create and securely store keys:

• In the Configuration area of your Hornbill instance, navigate to Platform Configuration > Security > KeySafe;
• Click on the + Create New Key button, then select Username + Password;
• Give the KeySafe Key a Title (this is the name/identifier for the Active Directory account as you will see it when creating an IT Automation Job, or adding an IT Automation node to a Workflow);
• Optionally add a Description;
• Populate the Username field with the domain username for the account being used, for example: DOMAINNAME\yourusername;
• Populate the Password field with the password for the above account;
• Select Create Key to save.

Extra Credentials

Operations in this package require extra credentials to be sent, as well as the credentials for the user running the operation (as above). To create and securely store keys to run the operations:

• In the Configuration area of your Hornbill instance, navigate to Platform Configuration > Security > KeySafe;
• Click on the + Create New Key button, then select Username + Password;
• Give the KeySafe Key a Title (this is the name/identifier for the Active Directory account as you will see it when creating an IT Automation Job, or adding an IT Automation node to a Workflow);
• Optionally add a Description;
• Populate the Username field with a username of an Azure account that has the correct rights and privileges to create Azure Automation jobs;
• Populate the Password field with the password for the above account;
• Select Create Key to save.

Once you have created your KeySafe Keys, you can then use them to populate the Credentials > Admin or Run As and Extra Credentials inputs when creating IT Automation Jobs from this package.

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See also

• Hyper-V