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This page describes basic remote services management with the Abiquo API.

Introduction to Remote Services and Locations

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.

There are some requirements when dealing with remote services:

• The appliance manager and the business process manager are location-restricted remote services. 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 location is deleted.
• To create an OpenStack region, you need to pre-create a cloud provider proxy remote service.

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.

Details of Remote Services

The details of the Abiquo remote services are listed in the following table. 

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The following table describes Abiquo remote services required for datacenters and public cloud regions. 

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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.

Retrieve Existing Remote Services

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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.

See Remote Services Resource

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https://wiki.abiquo.com/api/latest/RemoteServicesResource.html#list-remote-services

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Check remote services

The following example shows how to check a remote service from the IP address (as with the check button in the UI). In this case we are checking a CLOUD_PROVIDER_PROXYNARS remote service. If you want to check other remote services, just replace cloud provider proxy details with the other details replace the remote service details in the example below. For a list of remote service types, see Infrastructure View 

Check a remote service from the IP address

cURL:

curl -X POST https://mjspac.bcn.abiquoexample.com:443/api/config/action/remoteservicecheck \ 
	-H 'Content-Type:application/vnd.abiquo.remoteservice+json;version=35.80' \
	-d @requestpayload.json \ 
	-u admin:xabiquo --verbose

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{
  "links":[],
  "type":"CLOUD_PROVIDER_PROXYNARS",
  "uri":"http://mjsrs.bcn.abiquo.com:8009/cppnars"
}

Response payload:

--none--

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Check a remote service that is already registered in Abiquo

To check a remote service that is already registered in Abiquo, you can use the link in the remote service entity or its ID. 

See Remote Services Resourcehttps://wiki.abiquo.com/api/latest/RemoteServicesResource.html#check-a-remote-service

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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 PUT request with a remote service entity containing the links to the locations where you want to add the remote service. Include PagePUT_adm_rs_X_CT_rs_j_AC_rs_jPUT_adm_rs_X_CT_rs_j_AC_rs_j 

https://wiki.abiquo.com/api/latest/RemoteServicesResource.html#update-a-remote-service