Introduction to remote services

Remote Services are applications that perform operations for the Abiquo orchestrator. For example, when you create a volume of external storage in the platform, the orchestrator uses the NARS remote service to communicate with the storage device and request that it create the volume.

The remote services used by Abiquo are described in the following table.

Remote Service	Description
Virtualization Manager	Manages virtual appliance startup and shutdown. Connects to cloud nodes to perform VM operations. Also known as the virtual factory.
Monitor Manager	Performs virtual appliance monitoring. Listens for events occurring in cloud nodes and updates VM state. Also known as the virtual system monitor.
Appliance Manager	Manages the VM templates, appliance library and template repositories.
Discovery Manager	Used to auto-discover physical machines. Retrieves hardware information, hypervisor type, and existing VM information. Also known as node collector
Business Process Manager	Performs asynchronous Virtual-to-Virtual (V2V) operations, converting VM templates to all hypervisor formats, and managing template exports.
DHCP Service	Assigns IP addresses and static routes to the VMs managed by the platform.
DHCPv6 Service	Assigns IPv6 addresses to the VMs managed by the platform.
Remote Access Manager	Manages connections to virtual machines for remote access