Managing device adapters

BMC Network Automation ships with built-in device adapters for a large number of vendors and models. If you want to support other devices in your enterprise, you can create additional required adapters.

The goal of the device adapter management module is to manage the following supported entities:

  • Vendors
  • Device Types
  • Configuration Trails
  • Custom Actions
  • External Script Actions

These entities are referred to as adapters. You can manage them from the BMC Network Automation user interface without restarting the BMC Network Automation application server. This capability ensures higher server availability. For information about creating custom device adapters, see Creating-custom-action-definitions.

The following table contains tasks and information for managing your device adapters by using BMC Network Automation, and provides links to the applicable topics:

Administering task

For more information

Benefit

To import new adapter files

Add a new device adapter

To modify and export adapter files

Analyze, modify, and import the exported file to another BMC Network Automation system

To perform actions on device adapters

Use the adapter list to perform the following device adapter operations:

  • Importing
  • Re-importing
  • Exporting
  • Enabling
  • Disabling
  • Deleting

To understand adapter concepts

Review the topics to understand the following:

  • Details of disabling various types of adapters
  • Rules that govern the state of adapters
  • Access-grant that BMC Network Automation provides to the user who imported the action


 

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