# AWX Netapp Custom EE - Installation and configuration procedure

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/awx-netapp-custom-ee-installation-and-configuration-procedure/36244>\
**Category:** AWX Project\
**Tags:** awx, ee\
**Created:** [January 24, 2022, 5:56am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/awx-netapp-custom-ee-installation-and-configuration-procedure/36244 "2022-01-24T05:56:34Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 24, 2022, 5:56am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/awx-netapp-custom-ee-installation-and-configuration-procedure/36244/1 "2022-01-24T05:56:34Z")

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Hi!

Please find the below instructions to create a custom EE in awx 19.x to integrate with Netpp storage to run jobs on the netapp storage system. It helps others to save time.

Prerequisite:

1. You should have awx 19.x and above
2. A test machine linux (centos or redhat) with internet connections

Netapp Custom EE creation step:

1. Read the Netrapp ontap, SAntricity and E series collections Read me
2. Check to see if any requirements.txt file exists
3. Based on the requirements.txt and readme file, we have to create requirements.txt to install custom python modules

Login into test linux server as root

1. dnf -y install python39.x86\_64
2. mkdir ~/ansible-builder && cd ~/ansible-builder
3. python3.9 -m venv builder
4. source builder/bin/activate
5. pip3 install ansible
6. pip3 install ansible-builder==1.0.1
7. vi requirements.txt

add below in requirements.txt  
ipaddress  
jmespath  
netapp-lib  
requests  
six  
solidfire-sdk-python  
xmltodict  
cryptography \>= 2.5  
netaddr

> =19.0.0  
> pypsrp  
> urllib3

1. vi execution-environment.yml  
Add below in execution-environment.yml