Configuring the Ansible Tower cloud connector

Important

The cloud connector for this application is will be disabled until further notice. BMC recommends that you delete the cloud connector and configure the on-premises connector instead. For more information, see Configuring-the-Ansible-Tower-connector.

As an automation engineer, you configure the cloud connector to establish a connection between BMC Helix Intelligent Automation and Ansible Tower. 

Related topics

Managing-automation-policies

Editing-disabling-and-deleting-connectors

To configure the Ansible Tower connector

  1. In the BMC Helix Intelligent Automation console, go to Connectors > Available Connectors.
  2. Click Configure against the Ansible Tower connector.  
  3. Enter a unique name.
  4. Enter the endpoint URL for the Ansible Tower application.
  5. Enter the username and password required to access the Ansible Tower application.
  6. Click Save.
    The connector is saved and appears under the Configured Connectors tab with the status as Connected.
    If the connector is not successfully connected, the status appears as     Disconnected. 


Where to go from here

Now that the connector is configured successfully, you can create policies to execute actions supported by Ansible Tower. For more information, see Restarting-PATROL-Agent-on-a-server. 

 

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