Getting Started With Automation

Flexera One Automation uses policies to automate governance across your multi-cloud environment to increase agility and efficiency while managing security and risk in your organization. The capability is purpose built to leverage an intelligent policy engine that lets you enforce rules and best practices to help you achieve your business outcomes like saving time, cost reduction, increasing utilization, and rightsizing your cloud environment.

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At this time, Automation documentation is limited to the following policy categories. For a detailed list of policies, see List of Flexera Policies.

• Cost
• Security
• Operations and Infrastructure
• Compliance
• SaaS Management

Automation Key Capabilities

Flexera One Automation provides:

• Built-in policies for Cost, Security, Operational, and Compliance use cases

• Dry run policies that allow you to then configure them to take approved actions on any API backed cloud, service, and resource

• The ability to automate policies across your entire cloud landscape (multiple accounts)

• The option to maintain policy-as-code using the built-in policy template language to write your own policies

• Enforcement rules on any cloud or any service with an API

• Automation of your policies using the fully-featured Automation API and documentation.

Configuring Ingress for Automation With a Safelist CIDR IP

Flexera One Automation is a powerful capability that allows integration with public and internal APIs for recommendations, governance, and reporting. In some cases, our Automation system needs to access systems that restrict access by IP address, such as firewalls or SaaS (software as a service) solutions with high security needs. See the Source IP Address Filtering subsection of the Safelist URLs and Endpoints Help page for a list of the CIDR IP ranges used by our Automation capability, so that external systems can be configured to allow our systems access to the necessary details using a trusted IP addresses range.

Automation Help Topics

The table below provides navigation to the following Automation help topics.

Topic	Content
About Flexera Policies	Introduces you to policy use cases, provides basic policy concepts, provides an overview of how to register policy credentials, and provides an overview of how to manage, apply, and update policies and handle incidents.
List of Flexera Policies	Lists the pre-built Flexera policies.
Automation User Interface Overview	Describes the Flexera One Automation user interface. Some user interface pages are only accessible to users with a certain set of privileges based on their user role.
Managing and Using the Automation Catalog	Describes the following Automation Catalog features: Browsing the Catalog Applying Policies From the Catalog Publishing Custom Policies to the Catalog Removing Policies From the Catalog .
Applying Policies	Describes the following features for applying policies: Common Policy Configuration Options Selecting Credentials Policy-Specific Configuration Options Evaluating Policies for Your Environment .
Automation Administration	Describes the following Automation administration features: Managing User Access Configuring Flexera One API Credentials to Use SaaS Management Policies Managing Credentials for Policy Access to External Systems .
Automation Frequently Asked Questions	Groups the Automation Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) by: General Questions Credentials FAQs Custom Policies FAQs Catalog FAQs Troubleshooting FAQs .
Automation Reference Information	The following links to external documentation walk you through custom policy details and help you get started writing your own custom policy. Create a Custom Policy - describes how to write your own custom policy. Policy Authoring Walkthrough - provides a step-by-step guide on authoring every element of a policy. Policy Template Language - describes the code used to create a custom policy and provides policy templates. Policy Template Language Functions - describe the categories of functions used to compute values dynamically in a custom policy template. Cloud Workflow Language - describes the language and processes used to manage entire applications running in the cloud. Cloud Workflow Functions - describe the built-in operations that execute inside the Cloud Workflow engine using the Cloud Workflow Language. Cloud Workflow Operators - describe the operators used to manipulate values and resource collections.
Automation API Capabilities	Provides a list of the Automation APIs for policy credential management and automation.