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Concert Workflows

Allow Napalm integration to take in arguments

At this time, the Napalm integration does not accept optional arguments for it's drivers. This idea will add a field to the block or authentication to allow users to provide these arguments. The specific use case from the case was to be able to us...
about 1 month ago in Concert Workflows Planned for future release

Concert Workflows: Upgrade Telnet integration to allow actions for connecting to CISCO IOS switches

CISCO IOS requires certain actions from Telnet in order to connect and run commands that aren't supported by Concert Workflows, this enhancement is to expand it such to do that, such as prompting keys and resetting states.
about 1 month ago in Concert Workflows Planned for future release

Concert Workflows: Improve Netmiko functionality for dealing with CISCO switches.

CISCO IOS requires certain actions from Telnet in order to connect and run commands that aren't supported by Concert Workflows. Netmiko, runs using Telnet (as well as SSH) and would require enhancements in order to work with a wider selection of C...
about 1 month ago in Concert Workflows Planned for future release

Integration with Chef

Potential customer is currently going through a PoV for Concert Workflows. They rely heavily on Chef for managing their On-Prem infrastructure. Asking if we can introduce a new integration with Chef for this evaluation. The Vendor in consideration...
8 months ago in Concert Workflows Functionality already exists

Improve Power_Advisory_Workflow to tell users / stop when WatsonX is not available or set up.

At this time the Power_Advisory_Workflow requires WatsonX in order to be able to function. This is not stated in the documentation for setting up Power Workflows, nor does the workflow itself check for WatsonX. Instead, it will successfully run, p...
about 2 months ago in Concert Workflows Not under consideration

Inclusion of Python packages in FaaS.

We are working on building workflows for ESN for telco network elements which require extensive processing of data. To parse the data we require various python libraries which are currently not part of FaaS block available. Hence, to maintain cont...
2 months ago in Concert Workflows Submitted

Retrieve resilience metrics through OpenTelemetry via Workflows

Our customer is currently using Dynatrace as their APM solution and is also investing in OpenTelemetry. They would like the resilience metrics collected through OpenTelemetry to be ingested into Concert.
18 days ago in Concert Workflows Needs more information

Add some sample workflows and documentation for Expect SSH Integration into the Automation Library

At this time, there is no good documentation or samples for the ExpectSSH integration. While it could be argued that it's not needed, it's very difficult for a user to know how to design a workflow that uses the ExpectSSH array format. Know that t...
7 months ago in Concert Workflows

Add support for configurable TLS protocol version in IRIA/IRNA integrations

We are currently integrating IRIA (IBM Rapid Infrastructure Automation) with legacy Cisco ASA devices that only support TLS v1.0. However, IRIA’s default Node.js HTTPS agent uses TLS v1.2, and there is currently no way to configure or downgrade th...
10 months ago in Concert Workflows Not under consideration

Tanium Support

Need Tanium support for a client PoV.
11 months ago in Concert Workflows Needs more information