CloudForms Management Engine Automate

The CloudForms Management Engine Automate model provides real-time, bidirectional process integration by providing methods for automation, and uses an object-oriented hierarchy to control the automation functions.

The Automate organizational units

There are six organizational units arranged hierarchically that are used by the CloudForms Management Engine Automate model, as shown in this diagram:

Domains

The CloudForms Management Engine appliance comes preconfigured with two locked domains:

• ManageIQ: This is the core domain of Management Engine and contains the following namespaces:
  • Cloud namespace: This contains methods and functions for cloud instance life cycle management operations, such as provisioning and retirement
  • Infrastructure namespace: This provides methods and functions for cluster operations, host provisioning, and virtual machine life cycle management activities
  • Service namespace: This provides methods for the service life cycle, provisioning...