Manage remote services

1 Display remote services
2 Create a remote service
3 Modify a remote service
4 Edit an appliance manager or business process manager
5 Delete a remote service
6 Modify remote services of a datacenter or public cloud region
7 Pages related to datacenters and public cloud regions

Display remote services

To manage remote services, go to Infrastructure → Remote Services.

Remote services in Infrastructure view

Create a remote service

To add a remote service for a new feature to your platform, such as to add the XaaS feature, do these steps.

Go to Infrastructure → Remote services
Click the + add button
For the General information, select the Type and check the URI is correct for your environment

Create remote service with general information
Optionally, to add the Locations that will use the remote service, click the + add button and select them.

You can also add the remote service directly when you create a new datacenter or public cloud region.

Modify a remote service

To edit a remote service,

Go to Infrastructure → Remote services
In the Remote services list, select the remote service type
In the Remote service pane, select the remote service
Click the pencil edit button

To change the location of a remote service, which is not the Appliance manager or the Business process manager:

Edit the remote service
Go to Locations and remove or add the remote service from the location

To remove a remote service from a location (but not delete it from the platform):

Next to the location, click the trash bin button

To add a remote service to a location:

Click the + add button and select the location

Click Save

Edit an appliance manager or business process manager

Usually, you can only add the Appliance manager and Business process manager (V2V) when you create a location and delete it when you delete the location. This is because you can use these remote services in ONE location only. These remote services are linked to the NFS repository in the location.

If you wish to change the Appliance manager, you must maintain the same NFS repository, which means that it must have the same files and the same repository ID. See https://abiquo.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/doc/pages/311375731.

To change the location of the Appliance manager or the Business process manager, you must replace these remote services in their current location:

Go to Infrastructure → Private → Remote services
Edit the remote service
On the General information tab, for the Appliance manager or the Business process manager, enter the URL for the replacement remote service
Click Save

After you edit remote services, click Check to ensure that the Abiquo Server can connect to the remote services

Delete a remote service

To delete a remote service, first remove it from any locations where it is in use. If you wish to delete an Appliance manager or a Business process manager remote service, you must replace it in the location where it is in use or delete the datacenter or public cloud region.

Modify remote services of a datacenter or public cloud region

To modify the remote services in an existing location:

Edit the datacenter or public cloud region, and go to Remote services
- To add an existing remote service, click on the pulldown arrow to the right of the Remote service and select the new remote service
- To remove a remote service, click the black x beside it
- To display the status of the remote service from the last manual or automatic infrastructure check, click the Check button. The status indicator will show green or red (not available).Do not save a location when any of the remote services are not available in the location.
When you have edited all the Remote services, click Save.

You cannot edit the Appliance manager or the Business process manager. They must always be associated with one and only one location.
You can only replace them on the main Remote Services tab in Infrastructure view (the AM requires the same repository) or delete them by deleting the entire location.