CECS – UCSD Advanced Automation Training (2 Day)

Course Type

Instructor-Led Training, Classroom with Hands-on Lab

Duration: 2 Days

Who should attend
The primary audience for this course is as follows:

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Course Content

• Module 1: UCSD Architecture Revisited
  • Orchestration using UCSD
  • Tasks and Workflows
  • UCSD API(s)

• Module 2: UCS Director Specific Use cases
  • VM and Application Use Cases
  • Resource Groups VS vDCs
  • Tenant Onboarding
  • Infrastructure management and provisioning

• Module 3: Custom Tasks VS Open Automation
  • Use cases for Open Automation
  • Use case for Custom Tasks
  • Where to find resources for building custom tasks

• Module 4: Understanding Scripting Tasks
  • Understanding SSH Task
  • Understanding CLI tasks
  • SSH scripting use cases
  • Understanding Compound tasks
  • Understanding PowerShell Script
  • Understanding VIX Scripts
  • PS and VIX use cases

• Lab 1: SSH Script

• Lab 2: Compound Task

• Lab 3:  VIX and PS scripting

• Module 5: Building Complex and Advanced Workflows
  • Building simple workflows for infrastructure provisioning

• Lab 4: ICF Cloud Setup(Adding AWS Account)

• Lab 5: ICF Extension Setup

• Lab 6: Setting up ICF Policies

• Module 6: REST API – Northbound
  •  Overview
  • Accessing the UCS Director Developer Menu
  • PSC Integration

• Lab 7: Perform Read / Write operations through the REST API

• Module 7: Building Custom Tasks
  • JavaScript Fundamentals
  • UCS Director top level variables
  • Building custom tasks in UCS Director

• Lab 8: Basic custom task using Java script

• Module 8: Building Advanced Custom Tasks
  • Inner task customization
  • API Calls using custom tasks
  • XML Parsing using Custom tasks

• Lab 9: API call custom task

• Lab 10: XML parsing for output variables

• Lab 11: Building an advanced custom task in UCS Director