Configuring vGW Series Integration with vCloud Director
This topic covers how to integrate vGW Series with VMware’s vCloud Director using the vGW Security Design VM.
Before you configure vGW Series integration with vCloud Director, you must set up vCloud Director to send relevant notifications to an Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP) broker.
vCloud Director includes an AMQP service that you can configure to work with an AMQP broker to make available notifications about events in the cloud.
There are several AMQP-compatible brokers, including:
- Red Hat MRG Messaging. See http://www.redhat.com/products/jbossenterprisemiddleware/messaging/
- RabbitMQ. See
http://www.rabbitmq.com/
 | Note: On the vCloud Director Administration Screen page that you use to configure the AMQP Broker settings, you must select Enable Notifications. Also, set Exchange to vgwExchange. If you use a different value, ensure that it matches the value of property center.vcd.amqp.exchange in center.conf. |
After you complete this configuration and you configure the vGW Security Design VM for integration with vCloud Director, the vGW Security Design VM can register with the AMQP broker to acquire these notifications and use them for updates.
The Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP) is an OASIS open standard application layer protocol for message-oriented middleware. The defining features of AMQP are message orientation, queuing, routing (including point-to-point and publish-and-subscribe), reliability and security.
To configure vGW Series integration with vCloud Director:
- Enable vCloud Director integration. Set the center.vcd.enabled
parameter to true:
center.vcd.enabled=true
By default it is set to false.
For this configuration parameter to take effect, you must restart Apache Tomcat.
Note: If you reset this value to false, all existing connections with vCloud Director are closed and the credentials are removed from the vGW Series database. Also the pane for configuring vCloud Director credentials in Settings > vGW Application Settings > vCenter Integration shown in Figure 111 is no longer displayed.
Figure 111: VGW Security Design VM vCenter Integration Window Showing vCloud Director Settings Pane
- Figure 111 shows the Settings > vGW
Application Settings > vCenter Integration window that you use to
configure vGW Series settings for integration with vCloud Director.
In the vCloud Director Settings pane, configure the following information:
- In the VCD Server Name or IP Address field,
enter the IP address or DNS name of the vCloud Director server.
You can specify an IPv6 or IPv4 address.
- In the VCD Server Port field, if the port number differs from the default of 443, specify the port number.
- In the vCD Username field, enter the user type.
The user specified must have admin privileges.
- Specify a password in the vCD Password field
- In the VCD Server Name or IP Address field,
enter the IP address or DNS name of the vCloud Director server.
- In the Synchronize vCloud Director pane, click Restart.
The vGW Security Design VM automatically configures information about any VM that it discovers through vCloud Director and it associates that information with the VM. You can view that information on the Settings > vGW Application Settings > Machines page.