Infoblox DHCP activities

The Infoblox DHCP activities manage the IP addresses reserved for DHCP in your network.

Use these activities to reserve, list, or delete IP addresses that are used for DHCP assignment in your network.

Parent Topic:Infoblox DDI activity pack

DHCP Reserve IP v4 Address Range activity

The DHCP Reserve IP v4 Address Range activity reserves an IP address range for DHCP use.

The DHCP activities use the REST web service activity template to manage IP addresses using an Infoblox DDI Grid Server. These activities are configured to use a MID Server with REST capabilities.

To access this activity in the Workflow Editor, select the Custom tab, and then navigate to Custom Activities > Infoblox DDI > DHCP.

Input variables

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Variable

</th><th>

Description

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InfobloxServer

</td><td>

Name of the Infoblox DDI Grid Server.

</td></tr><tr><td>

startIpAddress

</td><td>

Beginning IPv4 address of the range to reserve.

</td></tr><tr><td>

endIpAddress

</td><td>

Ending IPv4 address of the range to reserve.

</td></tr><tr><td>

restCredentials

</td><td>

The sys_id of the REST credentials from the ServiceNow instance.

</td></tr><tr><td>

api_version

</td><td>

Defines the version of WAPI to use for the integration endpoints. The default value is 2.0. Note: This field is mandatory. If the field is empty, the orchestration activity will fail.

</td></tr><tr><td>

view

</td><td>

Name of the Infoblox network view. The default value is default. Note: If the field is empty, the operation is treated as happening in the default view.

</td></tr></tbody> </table>### Output variables

Variable Description DHCPIpAddressRange Range of reserved IPv4 addresses. error Displays the message for any REST error encountered.

Conditions

Variable Description Success Activity successfully reserved the specified IPv4 address range. Failure Activity failed to reserve the specified IPv4 address range.

DHCP Delete IP Reservation activity

The DHCP Delete IP Reservation activity deletes IP reservations in DHCP using either an IPv4 or IPv6 address range.

An automation can obtain an Infoblox DHCP object to delete from either of these activities:

• DHCP List IP Reservations

• DHCP Reserve IPv4 Address Range

The DHCP activities use the REST web service activity template to manage IP addresses using an Infoblox DDI Grid Server. These activities are configured to use a MID Server with REST capabilities.

To access this activity in the Workflow Editor, select the Custom tab, and then navigate to Custom Activities > Infoblox DDI > DHCP.

Input variables

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Variable

</th><th>

Description

</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>

InfobloxServer

</td><td>

Name of the Infoblox DDI Grid Server.

</td></tr><tr><td>

ipToDelete

</td><td>

IP address range to delete, in the form: range/<encrypted code>:<start range>/<end range>/default

</td></tr><tr><td>

restCredentials

</td><td>

The sys_id of the REST credentials from the ServiceNow instance.

</td></tr><tr><td>

api_version

</td><td>

Defines the version of WAPI to use for the integration endpoints. The default value is 2.0. Note: This field is mandatory. If the field is empty, the orchestration activity will fail.

</td></tr></tbody> </table>### Output variables

Variable Description DHCPDeletedIpRange Range of deleted IP addresses. error Displays the message for any REST error encountered.

Conditions

Variable Description Success Activity successfully deleted the specified IP address range. Failure Activity failed to delete the specified IP address range.

DHCP List IP Reservations activity

The DHCP List IP Reservations activity generates a list of all the DHCP range reservations on a specific InfoBlox server.

The DHCP activities use the REST web service activity template to manage IP addresses using an Infoblox DDI Grid Server. These activities are configured to use a MID Server with REST capabilities.

To access this activity in the Workflow Editor, select the Custom tab, and then navigate to Custom Activities > Infoblox DDI > DHCP.

Input variables

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Variable

</th><th>

Description

</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>

InfobloxServer

</td><td>

Name of the Infoblox DDI Grid Server.

</td></tr><tr><td>

restCredentials

</td><td>

The sys_id of the REST credentials from the ServiceNow instance.

</td></tr><tr><td>

api_version

</td><td>

Defines the version of WAPI to use for the integration endpoints. The default value is 2.0. Note: This field is mandatory. If field is empty, the orchestration activity will fail.

</td></tr><tr><td>

view

</td><td>

Name of the Infoblox network view. The default value is default. Note: If the field is empty, the operation is treated as happening with no view and returns the values with data from all views.

</td></tr></tbody> </table>### Output variables

Variable Description reference Reference value for an array of DHCP address ranges in this format: range/<encrypted code>:<start range>/<end range>/default network Address of the network containing the IP address range. network_view Routing doman associated with the network returned.

Conditions

Variables Description Success Activity successfully returned an array of DHCP IP address ranges. Failure Activity failed to return an array of DHCP IP address ranges.