Build your Own Connector

The Connector Builder Page allows you to develop custom connectors so you can integrate other external applications seamlessly with ASM.

Communication with the supported external applications is performed through connectors that you can now build in the Connector designer page in ASM, rather than wait for others to build and install them on your server.The Connector Builder page only supports building custom CMDB connectors for the time being.

Available in HERMES (ASM Version 10.6) and higher.

To begin building your own connector, please reach out to your Technical Account Manager, or Alemba Support.

What problems does building a connector via the Connector Designer solve?

You can create a custom connector from scratch, build it exactly how you want it and get the information exactly how you need it!

You can now build a custom connector in ASM that will allow you to communicate with external applications to discover resources on those applications. Once detected, those resources can be imported into ASM as Federated CMDB records or lined to the existing CMDB records.

To create a custom connector, you must describe the API you want to connect to so that the connector you’re building understands the API’s operations and data structures.

In the Connector Builder page, you can determine the types of resources to be imported from the supported categories: Bulletin, CMDB Item, Contract, Cost Center, Knowledge, Location, Organization, Person and Subscriber Group.

What types of data are supported?

Depending on the 3rd party system and the type of data it provides, you can choose and specify which type of value a variable has.

What happens after you build the connector in the configuration process?

Once your connector has been built and tested, you can put your custom connector to work.

You will need to configure the connector for ASM to successfully connect to the 3rd party source with the specified parameters.