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title: "Using Actions of VMware Aria Automation Orchestrator for NIOS DDI"
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<span style="color: #000000">The actions available through Infoblox VMware Aria Automation Orchestrator are the building blocks of workflows. The actions are JavaScript segments that use the API exposed by the </span>VMware Aria Automation Provider for NIOS DDI<span style="color: #000000">. Use the actions to develop custom workflows.</span>

> ⚠️ **Note**
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> ⚠️ <span style="color: #000000">Procedure detailed in this topic may vary depending on the version of VMware Aria Automation Orchestrator and </span>VMware Aria Automation <span style="color: #000000">that you are using. For version-specific instructions, refer to the VMware documentation links listed in the </span><span style="color: #000000">*[Resources](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/ipamvmware8x/pages/52080794)*</span><span style="color: #000000"> section.</span>


<span style="color: #000000">The actions for VMware Aria Automation Orchestrator are located in the following modules of the VMware Aria Automation Orchestrator client:</span>

- <span style="color: #000000">**com.infoblox.integrated.ipam**</span><span style="color: #000000">: consists of the workflows and actions for establishing a connection with NIOS.</span>
- <span style="color: #000000">**com.infoblox.ipam**</span><span style="color: #000000">: consists of the workflows and actions for interacting with NIOS.</span>

<span style="color: #000000">To access the VMware Aria Automation Orchestrator actions:</span>

1. <span style="color: #000000">Log in to the VMware ARIA Automation Cloud Services Console.</span>
2. <span style="color: #000000">On the </span><span style="color: #000000">**Services**</span><span style="color: #000000"> tab > click </span><span style="color: #000000">**Orchestrator**</span><span style="color: #000000">.</span>
3. <span style="color: #000000">To view the list of actions:</span>
  1. <span style="color: #000000">In the </span><span style="color: #000000">**Dashboard**</span><span style="color: #000000"> panel, click </span><span style="color: #000000">**Library**</span><span style="color: #000000"> > </span><span style="color: #000000">**Actions**</span><span style="color: #000000">.</span>
  2. <span style="color: #000000">On the </span><span style="color: #000000">**Actions**</span><span style="color: #000000"> page, select the required action to open its page.</span>
  3. <span style="color: #000000">Click the </span><span style="color: #000000">**Script **</span><span style="color: #000000">tab to view the list of input parameters for the selected action.</span>  
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> ⚠️ **Note**
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> ⚠️ - <span style="color: #000000">For information about supported workflows, see </span><span style="color: #000000">*[Using Workflows of VMware Aria Automation Provider for NIOS DDI](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/ipamvmware8x/pages/52462996)*</span><span style="color: #000000">. </span>
> ⚠️ - <span style="color: #000000">For information about building workflows by using actions, refer to the VMware ARIA Automation Orchestrator documentation.</span>
> ⚠️ - <span style="color: #000000">VMware Aria Automation Assembler is powered by Action Based Extensibility (ABX) capability. </span>VMware Aria Automation<span style="color: #000000"> Cloud template deployments trigger ABX actions, which in turn trigger </span>VMware Aria Automation<span style="color: #000000"> workflows that create or update the resources configured in the cloud template.</span>