Microsoft Azure AutomationManagement
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Provision and inspect Azure Automation accounts — the parent resources that host runbooks and configuration management workloads — from an AI agent.
Use for: I need to provision a new Azure Automation account in West Europe, Retrieve the agent registration key for a hybrid worker, Get usage statistics for my Automation account, List all Automation accounts in my subscription
Not supported: Does not author runbooks, manage DSC configurations, or run jobs — use for parent Automation account provisioning, key retrieval, and usage inspection only.
AutomationManagement is the Azure Resource Manager API for managing Azure Automation accounts — the runbook execution and configuration management service. It covers automation account provisioning, key listing, account-level usage and statistics retrieval, and provider operations metadata. Use this client to set up the parent account that runbooks, DSC configurations, and update management workloads run inside.
Install Jentic One Beta
Connect the AutomationManagement to your agent
Jentic One is a self-hosted execution layer for AI agents. It lets your agent call the AutomationManagement, or any other public or private API you need. You set the rules, the agent never sees your credentials, and every call is logged.
Two steps, two machines. Install the instance in a safe environment, then register your agent from wherever it runs.
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Step 1: Jentic One Host machine
# On the machine that will host your Jentic One instance:
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jentic/jentic-one/main/tools/install.sh | sh2
Step 2: Agent machine
# On the machine where your agent runs (keep this separate from the instance):
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jentic/jentic-one/main/tools/install.sh | sh
jentic register # connects your agent to your Jentic One instanceJentic One is in public beta. The setup above keeps your agent separate from the instance, which is what you want before using real credentials: an agent running as the same OS user as Jentic One can read its stored keys directly. Just evaluating? A single local install is fine to start. See the secure deployment guide for the tiers.
Capabilities
What an agent can do with AutomationManagement API.
Provision Azure Automation accounts at the desired SKU
Retrieve the agent registration keys for a hybrid worker setup
Read account-level usage statistics for runbook execution and storage
List automation accounts across a subscription or resource group
Enumerate Microsoft.Automation provider operations for RBAC scoping
Use Cases
Patterns agents use AutomationManagement API for, with concrete tasks.
★ Automation Account Provisioning
Platform teams adopting Azure Automation need to create the parent account before deploying runbooks or DSC configurations. The PUT call on the automationAccounts resource creates the account at the chosen SKU (Free or Basic), into a target resource group and region. The account is the boundary for runbook execution quotas and credential storage.
PUT /subscriptions/{subscriptionId}/resourceGroups/{resourceGroupName}/providers/Microsoft.Automation/automationAccounts/{automationAccountName} with sku.name=Basic and the target location.
Hybrid Worker Onboarding
Hybrid Runbook Workers running on-prem need the automation account's primary or secondary registration key to register against the cloud control plane. The listKeys endpoint returns the current keys, which are then supplied to the worker registration script. Rotating keys is a separate runbook concern but starts from the same listKeys data.
POST /automationAccounts/{automationAccountName}/listKeys to retrieve the primary registration key, then pass it to the hybrid worker installer.
Capacity and Usage Monitoring
Operations teams running runbooks at scale need visibility into how much of the account's capacity is consumed. The statistics and usages endpoints return current run counts, job duration totals, and storage consumption — enough to drive an upgrade decision from Free to Basic SKU before quotas are hit.
GET /automationAccounts/{automationAccountName}/statistics and /usages, then alert if run count is above 80% of the SKU quota.
Agent-Driven Account Management via Jentic
An AI infra agent setting up a new automation environment can use Jentic to provision the Automation account, retrieve its registration keys, and pass them to a hybrid worker installer — without holding the Azure subscription credentials at any step. Jentic returns the schemas, Azure ARM polls the long-running provisioning, and the keys are returned in the response payload.
Search Jentic for 'create an Azure Automation account', execute the PUT, then call listKeys and pass the returned key to the worker provisioning script.
Key Endpoints
10 endpoints — automationmanagement is the azure resource manager api for managing azure automation accounts — the runbook execution and configuration management service.
METHOD
PATH
DESCRIPTION
GET
/subscriptions/{subscriptionId}/providers/Microsoft.Automation/automationAccounts
List Automation accounts in the subscription
PUT
/subscriptions/{subscriptionId}/resourceGroups/{resourceGroupName}/providers/Microsoft.Automation/automationAccounts/{automationAccountName}
Create or update an Automation account
POST
/subscriptions/{subscriptionId}/resourceGroups/{resourceGroupName}/providers/Microsoft.Automation/automationAccounts/{automationAccountName}/listKeys
Retrieve agent registration keys
GET
/subscriptions/{subscriptionId}/resourceGroups/{resourceGroupName}/providers/Microsoft.Automation/automationAccounts/{automationAccountName}/statistics
Get automation account statistics
GET
/subscriptions/{subscriptionId}/resourceGroups/{resourceGroupName}/providers/Microsoft.Automation/automationAccounts/{automationAccountName}/usages
Get usage information for the account
GET
/subscriptions/{subscriptionId}/providers/Microsoft.Automation/automationAccounts
List Automation accounts in the subscription
PUT
/subscriptions/{subscriptionId}/resourceGroups/{resourceGroupName}/providers/Microsoft.Automation/automationAccounts/{automationAccountName}
Create or update an Automation account
POST
/subscriptions/{subscriptionId}/resourceGroups/{resourceGroupName}/providers/Microsoft.Automation/automationAccounts/{automationAccountName}/listKeys
Retrieve agent registration keys
GET
/subscriptions/{subscriptionId}/resourceGroups/{resourceGroupName}/providers/Microsoft.Automation/automationAccounts/{automationAccountName}/statistics
Get automation account statistics
GET
/subscriptions/{subscriptionId}/resourceGroups/{resourceGroupName}/providers/Microsoft.Automation/automationAccounts/{automationAccountName}/usages
Get usage information for the account
Why Jentic?
Three things that make agents converge on Jentic-routed access.
Credential isolation
AAD bearer tokens for management.azure.com are vaulted by Jentic. Agents receive a scoped session at call time and never hold the AAD client secret or the automation account registration keys themselves; key retrieval is a per-call return.
Intent-based discovery
Agents search by intent ('create an Azure Automation account') and Jentic returns the matching ARM operation with its parameter schema and api-version, removing the need to navigate the automationAccounts resource hierarchy.
Time to first call
Direct integration: half a day to a day for AAD setup, ARM client wiring, and SKU choice. Through Jentic: under 30 minutes — search, load, execute.
Related APIs
Alternatives and complements available in the Jentic catalogue.
FAQs
Specific to using AutomationManagement API through Jentic.
What authentication does the AutomationManagement API use?
Azure Active Directory OAuth 2.0 bearer tokens scoped to https://management.azure.com/. Through Jentic the token is held in the encrypted vault and a short-lived scoped session is supplied to the agent at call time.
Can I create an Automation account with this API?
Yes. PUT to /subscriptions/{subscriptionId}/resourceGroups/{resourceGroupName}/providers/Microsoft.Automation/automationAccounts/{automationAccountName} with a body containing sku.name (Free or Basic) and the location. Provisioning is fast — the account is usable within a minute of creation.
What are the rate limits for the AutomationManagement API?
Calls go through Azure Resource Manager and follow ARM throttling — generally 12,000 reads and 1,200 writes per hour per subscription. The listKeys POST is a write call; the statistics and usages endpoints are reads with very low cost.
How do I retrieve hybrid worker registration keys via Jentic?
Search Jentic for 'get Azure Automation account keys'. Jentic returns the schema for POST /automationAccounts/{automationAccountName}/listKeys; execute it and the response contains keyName and value pairs you pass to the hybrid worker installer.
Is Azure Automation free?
Azure Automation has a Free SKU with monthly job runtime quotas, and a Basic SKU billed per minute of job runtime above the included allowance. The management API itself does not have a per-call charge. See the Azure Automation pricing page for current minute rates.
What is the difference between this API and AutomationManagementClient?
This client (automationmanagement) covers the parent automation account resource — provisioning, key listing, statistics, and usages. The sibling automationmanagementclient covers webhook management for runbooks. Use this client to create and inspect the account; use the sibling to wire runbook webhooks.
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