Adapter classes
BMC Atrium Orchestrator adapters are classified as base adapters or application adapters.
Base adapters
Base adapters interact with external systems using standard protocols, such as JDBC, Telnet, SSH, and JMS, and through the native operating-system command line. BMC Atrium Orchestrator provides terminal adapters, which are base adapters that communicate directly with the server operating system. Terminal adapters integrate with servers and network devices that expose a terminal interface. Using a terminal adapter, you can submit any supported command to the operating system interface to be executed in the same way you would submit the command from the console keyboard.
The following terminal adapters are included with the BMC Atrium Orchestrator base adapters:
- Telnet
- SSH
- Command Line
- File
- FTP/SFTP
- SCP
- PowerShell
- Kerberized SSH
Application adapters
Application adapters implement the API of an external application to provide an interface. The adapter developer uses the methods exposed by the external API to create adapter actions that the workflow developer uses to extract data from and manipulate the operation of the external application. The adapter can be developed using technologies like Java, C++ (or other language-based APIs), web services, or JDBC.
The following application adapters are included with the BMC Atrium Orchestrator application adapters:
- BMC Remedy
- BMC Server Automation
- BMC Network Automation
- BMC ProactiveNet Performance Manager
- BMC Event Manager
- VMware Infrastructure adapter
- VMware vCloud
- Amazon EC2
- Amazon S3
- NetApp Storage
- EMC Storage
- Dell AIM
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