Greetings. This may cross over into UDT which we don't currently have but may acquire. We are undertaking a very expedited move of 3 large data centers to 3 co-lo's -probably a total of 12-15k devices total. We are a NPM, NCM (light) and Cisco Prime (when it's up) shop. I have been working recently on a good bit of IPAM automation (self service) using Bluecat and VRO (VmWare's orchestration). One of the questions that's come up is how we might further automate the moves for physical servers as they have the challenge of needing to have the VLAN tag on the switchport changed during pre-move staging (we're changing the IPs first, in place, separate from the physical move).
So I'm looking for other's experience with using NCM and possibly UDT for something like this. Seems like in our automation form in VRO we'd input the name or IP, look up the IP if necessary in IPAM and then pass the IP via soap / rest / whatever to NCM. From there I'd expect NCM / UDT to determine the switch & port the device is on and to change the switchport's vlan tag configuration. One thing I see as a challenge right off is determining if it's a trunk port with a native vlan defined, etc...
We've just not done much CM work with NCM yet (due to trying for years to have Prime work correctly) and certainly haven't done any automation with it.
Looking for yeah / no / maybe it can be done and pointers on how that flows at a high level within NCM/UDT, links to resources, etc. Not looking for someone to write the code for us, lol.
Thanks in advance for your creative thoughts!