Automated Vision

Bulk import Ivanti Automation Global Variables

Ivanti provides many Ivanti software or 3^rd party software connectors for Ivanti Automation on the Ivanti Marketplace (https://marketplace.ivanticloud.com/). Most of the connectors use Variables and need to be created before a connector Task is used in a Module.
This blog describes how to create Global Variables by importing in bulk from a CSV file with Ivanti Automation. This blog includes the Building Block for Ivanti Automation which can be found at the end of the blog.

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September 11, 2023

Microsoft / SQL Server

Install a certificate on Microsoft SQL Server and enable Protocol Encryption

This blog describes how to install either a self-signed certificate or a certificate from a Certificate Authority Server.

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June 29, 2023

Automation / Ivanti / Windows Server

Install Ivanti Automation Dispatcher and Agent on Windows Server Core

This blog describes how to install Ivanti Automation Dispatcher and Agent on Windows Server Core editions. The Ivanti Automation Admin Guide describes Windows Server Core edition can be used. Because the Core edition doesn’t have the Desktop Experience, it’s impossible to install the Ivanti Automation Console on the Windows Server Core edition.

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June 21, 2023

Automation / Ivanti

Ivanti Automation Dispatcher WebAPI Tool

The Ivanti Automation Dispatcher WebAPI Tool helps you with creating complete PowerShell scripts to execute Modules, Projects, and Runbooks. Other options available are resolving Agents and removing Agents, and resolving jobs. More Dispatcher WebAPI features will be added to the tool in the future.

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June 8, 2023

Automation / Ivanti

Enabling Ivanti Automation Dispatcher WebAPI

Ivanti Automation provides a WebAPI for the Dispatcher component. This feature needs to be enabled when building integrations with Neurons for ITSM (also known as Ivanti Service Manager ISM).

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January 26, 2023

Automation / Identity Director / Tip of the week

Week 2 – Create PowerShell output ready for Ivanti Identity Director table format

Ivanti Identity Director tables are very useful for storing data. In Tip of the Week 2, we discuss how to create PowerShell output in Ivanti Automation which can be imported in an Ivanti Identity Director table.

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January 10, 2022

Automation / Tip of the week

Week 1 – Add multiple PowerShell variables to Ivanti Automation parameters

In week 1 of the new item Tip of the Week, I will discuss the option to add more PowerShell output variables to multiple Ivanti Automation parameters.

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January 1, 2022

Other

Backup daily Unifi DreamMachine (Pro) to local drive or network share

A couple of weeks ago I noticed the internet was down when I woke up. When I checked the Unifi DreamMachine it turns out it was completely crashed. When I tried to restart the DreamMachine it hanged during the boot process.
The only option was completely re-installing the DreamMachine and restore the backup. But after re-installing the firmware all backups stored local were overwritten and not available.
I needed a PowerShell script to copy the latest created backup to a local drive or network share. Check the blog how to enable SSH and AutoBackup on the UDM(-Pro)/DreamMachine and how to copy the latest created backup file to a save location.

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July 15, 2021

Automation / PowerShell

Ivanti Automation Dispatcher WebAPI schedule job with PowerShell

How many times do I get the question “How can we start/schedule modules, projects and runbooks from other systems in Ivanti Automation”? And like almost every application or cloud provider Ivanti Automation also holds an API solution.

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June 28, 2021

Identity Director / Other / PowerShell

Duo Security integrated in Ivanti Identity Director Password Reset

This blogs describes how to use Duo MFA Authentication with Ivanti Password Director and/or Ivanti Identity Director.

Ivanti Identity Director comes with a Password Reset option. Password Reset can also be used in Ivanti Password Director. It’s the same software installation but uses a different license.

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March 9, 2021