Cloudforms
Delete Dynamic Resource Object form CloudForms
If you are in the situation where you cannot delete a DRO from the UI you can go and delete it from the rails console. I had the following Dynamic Resource Object Definition: As you can see I have 2 instances. How do you delete these instances? With both the API calls as well…
CloudForms in AWS part 4
To round this up here a recording of smartstate in AWS with auto-remediation of a vulnerability (java) via policy and ansible inside.
CloudForms in AWS part 3
This will be the last part of the blog series but probably the most interesting one. When you launch a smartstate analysis you will see the following in you evm log files. [—-] I, [2018-03-11T16:12:10.941498 #3004:4f7130] INFO — : MIQ(ManageIQ::Providers::Amazon::CloudManager::Vm#raw_scan) NAME [Scan from Vm vmtosmartstate] SCAN [nil] [NilClass] [—-] I, [2018-03-11T16:12:11.068516 #3004:4f7130] INFO — : Job…
CloudForms in AWS part 2
This part of the CloudForms in AWS blog series will walk you through how to make sure that CloudForms reaches its full potential in AWS. IMPORTANT: If you want SmartState analysis to work you need to register your AWS account with the cloud access program. Use the link below to enable cloud access: https://engage.redhat.com/forms/cloud-access-registration Once…
CloudForms Ansible Tower Inventory fix
Unfortunately the latest version of Ansible Tower 3.2.1 is not able to connect to CloudForms due to a bug in the inventory file cloudforms.py If you need a fix for it until it is fixed downstream in the next tower release you can use mine (not supported of course) The PR is here: https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/31760 fix…
Red Hat Asia Tech Exchange – The Power of Red Hat Open Management
It was a great honor to present at Asia Tech Exchange in Vietnam! The presentation I gave was a modified version of the Red Hat Summit presentation and included a live demo of deploying Satellite 6, Ansible Tower, CloudForms and Red Hat Insights fully integrated in 45 minutes. The participants were able to understand and…
Red Hat Tech Exchange 2017 – Asia Pacific – The Power Of Integration
I will be speaking at Red Hat Tech Exchange in Vietnam September 3rd about the power of integration around the Red Hat Management portfolio. You will see a life demo on how you can deploy and full integrate CloudForms, Satellite6 and Ansible Tower. I will also explain why it is important to have native integration…
CloudForms 4.5 RHV 4.1 Management by Ansible Automation Inside (Part 2 Create a Button)
Part 2 is going to show you how you can run the catalog item created in Part 1 from a custom button. Go to Automation – Automate – Customization – Buttons. Click on Cluster / Deployment role and create a new Button Group Now click on Configuration – Add New Button and add the following…
CloudForms 4.5 RHV 4.1 Management by Ansible Automation Inside (Part 1 Create Service Dialog)
This post will explain what steps you need to go through to enable the ansible management of RHV on the first release of CFME 4.5. I assume that you’ve already enabled the Embedded Ansible role in Configuration – Server Control (enabling ansible automation inside can take up to 7-10 minutes) . CloudForms 4.5 comes with…