This page describes basic remote services management with the Abiquo API.
When you create a location (datacenter or public cloud region), you will supply the URLs of remote services. These remote services will be registered in Abiquo and they will also be assigned to the location you are creating.
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service | Datacenter | Public cloud region | Type in Abiquo | Protocol | Default port | Path |
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Virtualization Manager |
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| VIRTUAL_FACTORY | http:// | 8009 | virtualfactory |
Monitor Manager |
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| VIRTUAL_SYSTEM_MONITOR | http:// | 8009 | vsm |
Appliance Manager |
| APPLIANCE_MANAGER | http:// | 8009 | am | |
Discovery Manager |
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| NARS | http:// | 8009 | nars |
Service Manager | - | - | XAS | http:// | 8009 | xas |
Business Process Manager |
| BPM_SERVICE | http:// | 8009 | bpm-async | |
DHCP Service |
| DHCP_SERVICE | omapi:// or dnsmasq:// | 7911 or 823 | ||
DHCPv6 Service |
| DHCPv6 | omapi:// or dnsmasq:// | 7911 or 823 | ||
Remote Access Manager |
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| REMOTE_ACCESS | guacd:// | 4822 |
You can configure the ports as required, for example, for example, to avoid CORS issues, you might decide to configure AM access through HTTPS on port 443.
When you delete a location, the location-restricted remote services will be deleted, but the other remote services may remain in Abiquo. These remote services will not be assigned to any location.
The XaaS remote service is required to use X as a Service. You should add it to a datacenter or public cloud region in your platform.
Key to symbols
- Location-restricted remote services: the appliance manager and the business process manager CANNOT BE SHARED and each Appliance Manager remote service requires a separate NFS repository to hold the Datacenter Apps Library. These remote services can only be assigned to a single datacenter and you must supply the datacenter when they are created and they must be deleted when the datacenter is deleted.
When sharing these remotes services, they require access to ONE shared remote service Redis instance
To create a vCloud Director public cloud region, you must have already registered a Discovery Manager remote service in Abiquo
You do not need Abiquo DHCP servers when VMs receive their network configuration outside Abiquo (e.g. unmanaged networks, SDN, guest setup). For standard Abiquo cloud networks, the DHCP Servers are essential to the proper functioning of VM networking.
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Prerequisites
Before you begin working with remote services, create a datacenter, using the UI or the API, as described in the API infrastructure tutorial.
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Retrieve existing remote services
To retrieve all the remote services currently registered in Abiquo, use a GET request to the RemoteServices Resource.
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Modify a remote service to add it to locations
To modify a remote service to add it to public cloud regions or datacenters, perform a PUT request with a remote service entity containing the links to the locations where you want to add the remote service.
https://wiki.abiquo.com/api/latest/RemoteServicesResource.html#update-a-remote-service