Authentication is used between OCUM and the clusters it monitors. Authentication occurs between WFA and the systems it can execute workflows against. Authentication occurs between WFA and OCUM when it polls OCUM as a data source. Why can't the integration be better?
What would prevent OCUM from having a set of WFA credentials stored in the config which would allow the actions area of an alert config to have drop down menus that allow you to select a workflow to execute when an alert happens and have OCUM send the REST call using the stored credentials and a set of parameters just as the powershell scripts we write do?
My concern is that given the nature of the scripts that we have to write to get alerts to talk to WFA that as things change in future versions of both tools, there is a rather high chance that a minor software update could break these scripts, and there is no real easy way to know if they broke - since you can't readily alert on the return code of a script called by an alert.