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title: "VMware Aria Automation Orchestrator Provider Workflows"
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> ⚠️ **Note**
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> ⚠️ - To connect VMware Aria Automation Orchestrator with the Infoblox NIOS appliance, you must run the *[Create IPAM Connection](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/ipamvmware8x/pages/52659288)* workflow as a prerequisite for running all the other VMware Aria Automation Orchestrator Provider workflows.
> ⚠️ - You can add up to ten extensible attributes to the VMware Aria Automation Provider for NIOS DDI through VMware Aria Automation Orchestrator. You can add more attributes with the Infoblox Java Script API. The API has no restrictions on the <span style="color: #000000">count of extensible attributes that you can add</span>.
> ⚠️ - In the Remove workflows (such as Remove Network) that are used to remove objects from NIOS, when defining the remove criteria using extensible attributes, the GREATER_OR_EQUAL and LESS_OR_EQUAL comparison operators are not supported.


The VMware Aria Automation Orchestrator Provider workflows supported by VMware Aria Automation Provider for NIOS DDI, which you can access from the VMware Aria Automation Orchestrator client are as follows:

> Macro (children)

<span style="color: #172b4d">You can also build custom workflows using actions and API objects </span>and methods of the VMware Aria Automation Provider for NIOS DDI. See <span style="color: #0000ff">*[Using Actions of VMware Aria Automation Provider for NIOS DDI](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/ipamvmware8x/pages/52463032)*</span> and <span style="color: #0000ff">*[Using APIs of Infoblox VMware Aria Automation Provider for NIOS DDI](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/ipamvmware8x/pages/52048962)*</span>.