Integrating Turbonomic with Envizi via webMethods for Green IT data

In this article, we will learn how to leverage webmethods iPaas integration platform to achieve end-to-end integration between Turbonomic and Envizi. The article explains in detail, how to retrieve the data center energy consumption by using Turbonomic api, transform the data into Envizi specific data formats and push it to Envizi data services using webMethods, to further process and load into the Envizi platform to calculate the emissions.

Authors

Jeya Gandhi Rajan M
Madhukrishna Parike
Jyoti Rani
Indira Kalagara

Contents

• 1. Prerequisite
• 2. Architecture
• 3. Create Workflow in webMethods
• 4. Execute the Workflow
• 5. Check the result in Envizi
• 6. Schedule Workflow Execution

1. Prerequisite

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1.1 Environment

• Turbonomic v8.14.3 or higher
• Envizi Saas instance access (Click here to get access).
• webMethods Integration SaaS (Click here to signup for Trial).

1.2 Turbonomic Pre-Configuration

1. Create an user with Observer role in Turbonomic. Refer here to create the user.

1.3 Envizi Preconfiguration

1.3.1 Setting up Envizi Organization, Locations and accounts

To start with the integration, first we need to have / configure the organization hierarchy defined in Envizi and configure the identified datacenters as locations. For this article, lets say we have identified two data centers IBMCloud | vc01dc01 from which we need to collect electricity consumptions and load into Envizi to calcuatle the emissions. So, these two data centers are represented as 2 different locations in the Envizi's organization hierarchy as shown in the below screenshot.

Each of these data center location in Envizi also have a corresponding electricity account created to store / hold the electricity consumption data. Below are the details of the locations and accounts which will be used as inputs further in the article.

Location	Account
IN Bank-ODC-IBMCloud	IN Bank-ODC-IBMCloud-electricity
IN Bank-ODC-vc01dc01	IN Bank-ODC-vc01dc01-electricity

1. Get the values for the below fields from Envizi. You can get these details by download the Account Setup and Data Load template in Envizi specific to locations and account style.

• Organization (Organization name)
• Organization Link (Organization reference id)
• Account Style Link (Reference id for the account style S2 - Electricity - kWh)
• Locations Names and Accounts Names (The locations names under which the accounts to be created)

1.3.2 Envizi S3 Bucket

The integration requires Envizi AWS S3 data service details to place the Envizi templates in the respective s3 folder. If the Envizi S3 data service is not created, please refer Steps 1 and 2 here to create.

1. From Envizi S3 bucket screen, get the values for the below fields.

• Bucket
• Folder
• Username
• Access Key
• Secret Access Key

2. Architecture

Here is the architecture that describes about Turbonomic and Envizi integration via webMethods.

Leveraging the capabilities of webMethods iPaas Integration platform, we have created workflows and flow services which will communicate with Turbonomic using apis and fetch the statistics related to data centres energy consumptions. By using webMethods flow services the data retrieved through multiple apis can be consolidated and transformed into the Envizi specific data format as CSVs and finally placing them into Envizi data servies AWS S3 for further processing.

3. Create Workflow in webMethods

Let's create workflow in webMethods.

In this workflow, we will invoke Turbonomic APIs to fetch Energy consumption for each DataCenter locations and transform the JSON API response into the CSV template loaded by Envizi.

3.1. Create Project

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1. Login to your instance of webMethods integration with the respective credentials.

2. Click on + under the Projects tab.

3. Enter the Project name.

4. Click on Create, to create the project.

The project gets created as shown in the below image.

3.2. Import Workflow

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1. Download the Workflow archive file (webMethods workflow.zip) from here.

2. Click on Import button.

3. Select the Workflow file that is downloaded in the above step.

4. For the following fields, you can leave the defaults as-is or enter the values as you would like to.

• Workflow Name
• Workflow Description

5. Under Parameters section, update the field values based on your turbonomic, envizi environments

Refer the below table for the parameters values.

Name	Value	Comments
TurboLoginAPI	https://[Turbonomic-URL]/api/v3/login	Turbonomic Login API. Replace the [Turbonomic-URL] with your Turbonomic instance url
TurboAccountStatsAPI	https://[Turbonomic-URL]/api/v3/entities/	Retrieves the Data Centres statistics such as electricity consumption. Replace the [Turbonomic-URL] with your Turbonomic instance url
TurboDataCentresAPI	https://[Turbonomic-URL]/api/v3/search	Fetches the data centres locations from Turbonomic instance. Replace the [Turbonomic-URL] with your Turbonomic instance url
TurboUserName		Enter the Turbonomic UserName received as part of prerequisites
TurboPassword		Enter the Turbonomic Password received as part of prerequisites
S3BucketName		Envizi S3 Bucket name received as part of prerequisites
EnviziTemplateFileName		Envizi S3 Folder name and File name as as part of prerequisites. Example: client_7e87560fc4e648/Account_Setup_and_Data_Load_DataCenter_electricity.csv
statsFilter	See below	To retrieve the electricity consumption for a specific period, update startDate and endDate in the same format as shown in the below sample and leave the rest as defaults .
EnviziDCMap	See below	Create mapping of actual data center name and the corresponding location names created in Envizi along with name of the electricity accounts

statsFilter

{
    "data": {
        "startDate": "2025-01-01T00:00:01+00:00",
        "endDate": "2025-02-28T00:00:01+00:00",
        "statistics": [
            {
                "name": "Energy",
                "filters": [
                    {
                        "type": "relation",
                        "value": "sold"
                    }
                ]
            }
        ]
    }
}

EnviziDCMap

{
  "data":  [
      {
        "turbo_data_center": "IBMCloud",
        "envizi_location": "IN Bank-ODC-IBMCloud",
        "envizi_account": "IN Bank-ODC-IBMCloud-electricity"
      }, 
      {
        "turbo_data_center": "vc01dc01",
        "envizi_location": "IN Bank-ODC-vc01dc01",
        "envizi_account": "IN Bank-ODC-vc01dc01-electricity"
      }
     
    ]
}

1. In the above page, click on + symbol on the Connect to Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) field. The Add Account popup appears as below.

7. In the URL field, enter the value https://[Turbonomic-URL]/api/v3/entities/ Replace [Turbonomic-URL] with your Turbonomic instance url

8. Click Add button.

The project page updated with the above created value.

9. Click on + symbol on the Connect to Amazon Web Services field. The Add Account popup appears as below.

10. Enter the following values based on the prerequisites values from Envizi.

• Access Key ID
• Secret Access Key
• Default Region (us-east-1)

11. Click Add button.

The project page updated with the above created value.

12. Click Import button.

The workflow and the corresponding flow services are created in the integration project as shown below.

3.3. Create Reference Data for Flow service

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3.3.1 Prepare Envizi Template file.

The Envizi template file to be imported into the workflow as a reference data. Please note that the reference template is based on Account Setup and Data Load template for the account style S2 - Electricity - kWh Let's prepare that.

1. Download the Reference data file from here

2. Update the file with the values based on the below table. But you may need to update the below columns only based on the prerequisites values from Envizi.

• Organization Link
• Organization
• Account Style Link

Name	Value	Comments	User Action
Organization Link	17000252	The refernce id for the Envizi Organization.	Get it from prerequisites
Organization	GSI Demos	The name of the Organization.	Get it from prerequisites
Location	IBMCloud	The name of location where the account exists/to be created. It will be updated by workflow based on project parameters	Nil
Location Ref			Nil
Account Style Link	14445	The refernce id for the S2 - Electricity - kWh account style.	Get it from prerequisites
Account Style Caption	S2 - Electricity - kWh	The account style of this account. It will be updated by workflow based on project parameters	Nil
Account Subtype	Default		Nil
Account Number	vc01dc01-electricity	The account name. It will be updated by workflow based on project parameters	Nil
Account Reference			Nil
Account Supplier			Nil
Account Reader			Nil
Record Start YYYY-MM-DD	2024-01-01	It will be updated by workflow based on project parameters	Nil
Record End YYYY-MM-DD	2024-12-31	It will be updated by workflow based on project parameters	Nil
Record Data Quality	Actual		Nil
Record Billing Type	Standard		Nil
Record Subtype	Default		Nil
Record Entry Method	Overwrite		Nil
Record Reference			Nil
Record Invoice Number			Nil
Total Electricity (kWh)	883.799	Electricity consumption value. It will be updated by workflow based on turbonomic output	Nil
Green Power (kWh)			Nil
Total Cost			Nil

3.3.2 Add Reference Data

1. Goto the Reference Data data page by clicking on Configurations -> Flow service -> Reference data

2. Click on Add Reference data button.

3. In Save As column, enter the value EnviziTemplate

The Browse file button is enabled.

4. Click on Browse file button.

5. Choose the above prepared EnviziTemplate.csv file

The selected file appear like this.

6. Click on Next button.

7. Click on Next button.

8. Click on Done button.

The reference data is created as shown below.

3.4. View the Workflow & FlowServices

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Let's view the imported/created workflow

1. Click on the View button in the Integrations -> Workflows -> Turbo Envizi Sustainability Solution.

The workflow page is displayed.

Here is the details about the various nodes.

• Turbonomic API Login : This HTTP node makes an authentication request to turbonomic instance using login API and returns an authentication cookie as part of response header. The subsequent turbonomic APIs uses this cookie as part of their request header by setting set-cookie to authenticate and fetch relavant details.
• ParseEnviziDCMap : This node parses the input json parameter EnviziDCMap as json object.
• Query JSON : It Queries specific item from the JSON Object
• ProcessEnviziDCMap : It is a flow service ProcessEnviziDCMap which parses the josn object EnviziDCMap , retrieves the data cetner names and returns the same in string format of "DC1|DC2"
• Retrieve Turbo DataCentres : This HTTP node invokes turbonomic API which returns list of DataCentres with their uuids.
• DataCentreUUIDs : This query JSON node retrieves the responseObject JSON data containing the uuids from Retieve Turbo DataCentres
• Parse statsFilter : This JSON Parse node formats input parameter statsFilter as raw JSON data.
• Query responseObject from statsFilter : This query JSON node retrieve JSON data from Parse statsFilter node.
• Process DataCentre Stats : It is a flow-service which invokes the turbonomic API to retrieve the electricity consumption and perform the data transformations to return the data in the format as needed by Envizi.
• Convert JSON to CSV : This JSON to CSV node converts JSON data returned by the flowservice into a CSV file.
• Upload CSV to S3 Bucket : This AWS S3 node uploads the CSV file returned by Convert JSON to CSV node into Envizi S3 bucket which will be further processed by Envizi.

Now, lets view the imported flowservices.

1. Click on Integrations -> Flow Services -> DCTest

You can expand and explore the flow service transformations implemented

4. Execute the Workflow

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1. Click on the Edit button in the Integrations -> Workflows -> Turbo Envizi Sustainability Solution.

2. Click ON (1) to activate the Workflow

3. Click on Run button (2) to start the workflow.

4. Check the execution logs for the output generated once the flow is executed successfully.

This particular flow here is executed to fetch the electricity data from data centers IBMCloud & vc01dc01 data centers which are configured in as locations IN Bank-ODC-IBMCloud , IN Bank-ODC-vc01dc01 respectively between the time period start date: 2025-01-01, end date : 2025-02-28

Please view the corresponding records in the csv format from the logs in the below screenshot

In the next step, verify the same output results reached Envizi and loaded into the system.

5. Check the result in Envizi

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5.1. Check the webmethod output csv file in Envizi S3 data service

The webmethods integration workflow fetches the data from Turbonomic, transforms into Envizi specific format and pushes the .csv file into Envizi's AWS data service S3 folder.

You can view the status of the file in Envizi -> Admin -> Data Flow Automation -> File Delivery Status

5.2. Check the data loaded into respective electricity accounts of Envizi locations (aka datacenters)

5.3. Sample Data from S3

The sample data received in S3 from Turbonomic is available here.

6. Schedule Workflow Execution

The workflow can be scheduled for execution. Follow the steps below to define the schedule for workflow execution.

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1. Mouse over the Trigger node in the workflow

2. Click on Settings

3. Select Clock option

4. Click on Next button.

5. Change the schedule as per your need

6. Click on Done button

The schduling is done and the Trigger node shows the clock icon.

7. Click on Save button to save the workflow.

Now the workflow will execute automatically as per the defined schedule.

Appendix

1. Create User in Turbonomoic

Let us create a local user in Turbonomic with the Observer role.

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1. Create a new Local user in Turbonomoic by choosing the below menu option.

Home > SETTINGS > Local User > New Local User

2. User name could be demo_observer, give some password and choose role as Observer

3. Click Save button

4. User is created.

2. Reference

• Sign up for webMethods SaaS Trial https://signup.softwareag.cloud/#/basic-b

• Creating Envizi S3 bucket (Refer Steps 1 and 2 here to create the bucket)

• Getting started with the Turbonomic REST API : https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/tarm/8.13.6?topic=reference-getting-started-turbonomic-rest-api

• IBM Envizi ESG Suite https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/envizi-esg-suite

• Integrate your ESG Data into Envizi using Integration Hub https://developer.ibm.com/tutorials/awb-envizi-integration-hub/

Tags

#envizi #sustainability #turbonomic #webmethods #esgdata-integration #integration #ESG Data and Environmental Intelligence #sustainability-highlights-home