NCM Self-Service (formerly Calm)

Provisioning and Orchestration Across Multicloud

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Announcing Calm SaaS General Availability

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Calm Cookbook: Using Postman to Import a Blueprint

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Calm in Action: Single VM on Public Clouds - Video

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Jitendra Ingale
asked in NCM Self-Service (formerly Calm)

Calm plug-in for JIRA Service Desk

Is there Calm plug-in available for JIRA Service Desk like it is available for ServiceDesk. Need this to automate ITSM/ITOM processes in Nutanix infra. Use case - automating windows patch management workflow from JIRA Service Desk by integrating it with Calm and patching tool (ManageEngine’s Patch Manager+)

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1 year ago
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Jitendra Ingale
asked in NCM Self-Service (formerly Calm)

Automating Windows hosts patching

 https://next.nutanix.com/calm-application-management-55/os-patching-automation-with-calm-39677With reference to my previous thread, I have below doubts pertaining to achieving automation of Windows hosts patching over Nutanix AHV infra.Process would be like - Take a snapshot of the server, deploy the updates, test the server services are functioning as expected, if not restore the snapshot.Can it be achieved without using Calm? I mean by only using Ansible/Chef along with WSUS? What will be overall workflow for this? Any other 3rd party tools I will need to use for the same?I am looking for open source and cost effective approach here.Any Help/Direction will be highly appreciated.

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JoseNutanix
Nutanix Employee
1 year ago
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Jitendra Ingale
asked in NCM Self-Service (formerly Calm)

Calm vs Ansible

Folks,I have below queries with respect to Calm functionalities,Can Ansible be completely replaced  with Calm in Nutanix automation area? If not, what kind of Ansible tasks can Calm handle? And if I have to differentiate between both, what would be pointers? What other competitive (opensource) products are there in market which gives similar functionalities as Calm?Please help to understand. 

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Michael.Manuele
Nutanix Employee
1 year ago
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Brian CarlsonExplorer
asked in NCM Self-Service (formerly Calm)

Setting Hostnames when using CALM Service Replicas

I want to use the replica number in the hostname.  Is this possible ?  I can’t seem to find the variable to use.

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Michael.Manuele
Nutanix Employee
1 year ago
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Jitendra Ingale
asked in NCM Self-Service (formerly Calm)

Automating SOC processes with CALM

Hi Experts,https://next.nutanix.com/calm-application-automation-55/automating-soc-processes-with-calm-39678Continuing from above thread as it is in closed state now.I would like to know if same can be achieved with below firewall/security components are deployed at customer premises with Nutanix infra.Sophos UTM SG450 - Version 9.707-2Sophos UTM Manager Version 5PALO ALTO 850 - Version 9.1.10 Looking for some direction and supportive to move ahead.

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Nutanix Employee
1 year ago
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emuletAdventurer
asked in NCM Self-Service (formerly Calm)

Self Service in the Era of DBaaS - exist a new version

I have been trying to make work the blueprint in:https://next.nutanix.com/community-blog-154/self-service-in-the-era-of-dbaas-32849But everytime i get an error about the databaseparameterid. Does anyone have a new version of this blueprint or something i could use?

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JoseNutanix
Nutanix Employee
1 year ago
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Nutanix Employee
raajiNutanix Employee
posted in NCM Self-Service (formerly Calm)

Enabling and Disabling Showback in Calm

Showback allows you to configure and monitor the resources cost of your application blueprint. Perform the following procedure to enable showbackBefore we begin:Ensure that Showback is applicable for Nutanix and VMware through vCenter platformsProcedure: Log on to Prism Central as an administrator. From the Prism Central UI, click Services > Calm Click the Settings icon on the left pane. Under the General tab, click the Enable showback toggle button. The Enable Showback window is displayed. Click the supported provider for which you want to define the cost. Configure the cost of the following resources. vCPU: In the vCPU field, enter the cost of vCPU consumption for each hour in dollars. The default value is $0.01 for each vCPU for each hour. Memory: In the Memory field, enter the cost of memory consumption for each hour in dollars. The default value is $0.01 for each GB of usage for each hour. Storage : In the Storage field, enter the cost of storage consumpti

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Nutanix Employee
1 year ago
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Jitendra Ingale
asked in NCM Self-Service (formerly Calm)

Automating SOC processes with CALM

Hi Experts,We have a requirement to automate SOC process as much as possible,For example - using ticketing system (JIRA), when a request is raised to block a large list of IP's or domains, the ticket should be implemented automatically with out human intervention.Need to understand,If it is possible to integrate CALM with JIRA workflow ? and how ? If it is possible to automate block/release process of IPs/Domains at security devices with the help of CALM? and how ? What other security related tasks we can achieve with the help of CALM here.Looking for some direction and supportive to move ahead.

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JoseNutanix
Nutanix Employee
1 year ago
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Jitendra Ingale
asked in NCM Self-Service (formerly Calm)

OS Patching automation with Calm

Hi all,I have a requirement to automate patching of Operating systems (Windows and Linux) For example - the process would be, Take a snapshot of the server, deploy the updates, test the server services are functioning as expected, if not restore the snapshot.Customer is using ManageEngine Desktop Central which is being used to deploy software and patch client computers.Is it possible to integrate Calm with ManageEngine Desktop Central to achive above automation ?If not what would be alternate way and its overall workflow ? I am looking for direction and some supportive.

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JoseNutanix
Nutanix Employee
1 year ago
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BCarVoyager
asked in NCM Self-Service (formerly Calm)

Hostname/IP of a service?

How do I get the Hostname/IP of a service running in an application?I assume that by querying the api for the app object /apps/{uuid}, I would get the list of the services and therefore get the uuid of the vm.  But I can seem to find the vm uuid.Any ideas ?

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1 year ago
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RanuAdventurer
asked in NCM Self-Service (formerly Calm)

Nutanix Clam Licensing

Is there any specific way or prerequisite to apply the Nutanix Clam license. I can see the license is available and free but when I select the quantity ( 1 Pack), it does nothing.

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Nutanix Employee
1 year ago
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BCarVoyager
asked in NCM Self-Service (formerly Calm)

Calm Send Email from Blueprint Task

Is there anyway to send an email from a blueprint task ?

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Nutanix Employee
2 years ago
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BCarVoyager
asked in NCM Self-Service (formerly Calm)

Custom Role - Disable access to Files, Hardware and Policies

I am working on setting up a Custom role for end users to self serve market place apps.  Problem is that I can’t see where I can remove access to Polices (Image Placement), Hardware (GRU), and Files. They don’t appear to be in the action list.

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2 years ago
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Martin EdeliusTrendsetter
asked in NCM Self-Service (formerly Calm)

Why, exactly, does Calm have to be on a Nutanix cluster?

Hi.I’m the first to admit that I read the documentation for Calm a bit too quickly and didn’t really reflect on the meaning of “The Prism Central in which Nutanix Calm is running is registered with the same cluster.” and “Nutanix Calm is supported only on AHV and ESXi hypervisors on a Nutanix cluster.”After trying and failing to run this on an existing VMware cluster, that the Prism Central/Calm installation doesn’t own, I re-read the documentation and realized that I’d glossed over the actual requirements.I mention this to clarify that this isn’t a post about unclear documentation or incorrect requirements. I goofed, as simple as that. :)What I do want to know though is why these requirements exist. I have talked to my contacts at Nutanix and I so far I haven’t got a proper answer to this question.Can anyone please explain, in detail, why I can’t run Calm on an arbitrary VM?

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2 years ago
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BCarVoyager
asked in NCM Self-Service (formerly Calm)

Calm Macro Operations

Does any one know the syntax to get the first 3 characters of the project name ?  The documentation is not clear.  It talks about support for slicing for strings. For example, @@{foo[3:6]}@@, but it doesn’t seem to work.

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JoseNutanix
Nutanix Employee
2 years ago
aluciani
alucianiChevalier
posted in NCM Self-Service (formerly Calm)

Announcing Calm SaaS General Availability

Nutanix® Calm is an application orchestration solution that our customers use to deliver infrastructure and applications to their end business units. With the Calm marketplace, IT teams can create a self-service portal for their operations and developer teams. Likewise, with Calm, the end-user can start, stop, and scale an application based on their requirements and team roles, freeing up cycles from the IT team.At Nutanix, we are all about your freedom of choice: from hypervisors, to hardware, to clouds. Calm blueprints today can deploy applications and services not only on on-prem hypervisors, but also on popular public clouds, such as Microsoft Azure, AWS and GCP. Calm decouples applications from their underlying infrastructure and harmonizes operations across cloud environments. But until now, these capabilities were only available to customers running on Nutanix AOS, our powerful, software-defined HCI platform.We are excited to announce General Availability of Calm SaaS (see sign

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aluciani
2 years ago
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AldenGVoyager
asked in NCM Self-Service (formerly Calm)

Passing variables to Calm runbooks

I am trying to figure out how to pass variables to a calm runbook through a JSON post via the API. /api/nutanix/v3/runbooks/runbooku_uid/run{ "kind": "runbook" "spec": { "args": [ { "name": "network_name", "value": "Test123" }]}} 

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JoseNutanix
Nutanix Employee
2 years ago
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Martin EdeliusTrendsetter
asked in NCM Self-Service (formerly Calm)

How do I change the outcome of a decision task in Calm?

Hi all.I’m trying to get my Calm decision tasks to do what I want but I’m getting nowhere fast. :/How can I get a decision task to choose either ‘True’ or ‘False’ at the end of execution?Thanks!

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2 years ago
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CeciaVoyager
asked in NCM Self-Service (formerly Calm)

Calm task to add RBAC in K8S

Hello,How to set RBAC on K8S with Calm, I created a new cluster Kubernetes and I want to add rbac permission for some users with task ...is it possible? thanks a lotCecilia

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2 years ago
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AldenGVoyager
asked in NCM Self-Service (formerly Calm)

@@{mac_address}@@ variable is empty

I have created a blueprint and am attempting to pass the default macro @@{mac_address}@@ variable to a runbook. It appears the variable is empty. Any ideas? I am successfully pulling other macros without issue.Calm 3.1.0  

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Nutanix Employee
2 years ago
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Nutanix Employee
GaretNutanix Employee
posted in NCM Self-Service (formerly Calm)

Taking Backups of Your Calm Data

Did you know that, as of Calm version 3.0 and later releases, all of your Calm data can now be backed-up? Previous versions of Calm, unfortunately, did not allow this functionality.All Calm data can now be backed-up to and restored from a single archive file. Taking a backup of the Calm data involves simply connecting to the Prism Central instance hosting the Calm service via CLI (i.e. via SSH), then connecting to the corresponding docker container (named “nucalm”) and executing a single command.More information regarding this procedure can be found within the “Taking Backup and Restoring Calm Data” section of the “Nutanix Calm Administration and Operations Guide”.

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Nutanix Employee
2 years ago
Kaspars
KasparsVoyager
posted in NCM Self-Service (formerly Calm)

S3 demo application

Hi Guys. Recently I made a S3 demo application which you can deploy in Nutanix Karbon using Calm, and it has web interface from where you can upload files directly to Nutanix S3 bucket. It's made using node.js platform. I tried to make everything streamlined using Nutanix Calm, so I made  Docker Host, Docker Registry blueprints (Docker registry seeded blueprint, doesn't work because it doesn't save the the registry's password properly), docker image build Runbook pipeline and blueprint for deploying S3 demo application to Karbon cluster.Whole project can be found here and includes full step-by-step instructions guide - https://github.com/vildek/s3demo Article about the demo - https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/building-s3-demo-application-nutanix-private-cloud-kaspars-vilde/?trackingId=7tjcuIKv0XKx95XEp%2FrD0w%3D%3D Hope this helps somebody understanding the platform better! Cheers.

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Kaspars
2 years ago
maaz
Nutanix Employee
maazNutanix Employee
posted in NCM Self-Service (formerly Calm)

Getting started with Nutanix Calm

Calm allows Nutanix Enterprise customers to seamlessly select, provision, deploy & manage their Business Apps across all their infrastructure, both private and public cloud. Nutanix Calm ties together an AppStore, App Lifecycle, Monitoring & Remediation by providing a single control-point for managing heterogeneous infrastructure, be it VMs or containers, or even bare metal servers. Calm will eventually support all the components required to manage a complete Software Defined Data Center.Calm is deployed alongside SSP in the Prism Central VM. Calm consumes multiple Nutanix internal services and is not a standalone component. By extension, users must have a Nutanix Prism Central VM to enable Calm functionalityUse Cases Automation for complex applications, not only provisioning, but also self service. Enable application self service for multiple teams. Setup complex applications with a single click. Quickly get dev/test environments ready to go. Prerequisites we need to con

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maaz
Nutanix Employee
2 years ago
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TheReal_NicktanixAdventurer
asked in NCM Self-Service (formerly Calm)

JSON Formatting for Calm Variables

 I need to define a NIC for my windows substrate as a variable.current workflow:User selects subnet string from predefined variable >Pre-Create Parses and sets the subnet variable to the json from previous step. The NIC can be connected toone of n(x) subnets that are defined in the following escript:subnet1 = { "name": "name", "uuid": "redacted_uuid" }subnet2 = { "name": "name", "uuid": "redacted_uuid" }subnet3 = { "name": "name", "uuid": "redacted_uuid" }subnets = { "Preprod": subnet1, "Preprod": subnet2, "Prod-IaaS": subnet3 }print("{}".format(json.dumps(subnets.get("@@{appSubnet}@@"))))Output: @@{setSubnet}@@Profile Configuration:  This is where it breaks: 

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Nutanix Employee
2 years ago
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safaeAkScout
asked in NCM Self-Service (formerly Calm)

Launching Blueprint: authentication by password failed

Hi everyone! i created a blueprint of a centOS machine that installs docker, things were fine and it worked. now i published the blueprint in the marketplace and used it to create an application, it doesn't work anymore and it gives me the following error: Nutanix calm script execution has failed with error authentication by password failed. please refer kb-6098 for possible failure reasons. Notes : _ the blueprint sets the parameter PasswordAuthentication to yes in the /etc/ssh/sshd_config  file using cloud init, this works fine. My question is : why i get this error and why the blueprint doesn't work as before after publishing it in the marketplace. Thank you in advance.

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Alona
Nutanix Employee
2 years ago

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