Today we will
cover the easier step on this whole solution;
Enabling notifications on VMware vCloud Director.
When this
configuration is enabled, vCloud will send notification of every task executed
on it’s environment; creation of Orgs, VMs, vApps, Networks, customization of
VMs....
you got it, right ?!?! it will send notification about EVERYTHING.
On the last post we already configured RabbitMQ to intercept the notifications about VMs
creation, therefore it’s just a matter of enabling vCloud to start sending
them.
Log on
vCloud Portal
Click on Administration
Click on Extensibility
Click on Enable Notifications
Fill the
information about AMQP Hostname, Exchange, user and password
Click Test AMQP Connection to make sure it’s
all right.
That’s all
you need, from now on vCloud will send notification to the AMQP queue.
Since it’s
a piece of cake, I will give you guys a bonus !!!!
But remember, It’s not
related to the solution I’ve been discussing here.
It’s not unusual that some kind of approvals be required in cloud solutions.
It’s not unusual that some kind of approvals be required in cloud solutions.
With this
in mind let’s see how a request can be paused until some administration approve
or reject it.
The process
is the same; configure RabbitMQ queues and enable vCloud notification plus
the configuration of vCloud’s Blocking Tasks.
Blocking
Tasks are notifications about specific actions which are suspended until a
system administrator or an automated system
(you need to create it) acts on them, lets take an example of VM’s
creation, it can be automatically approved and provisioned unless someone
request a 8 vCPUs VM, in this case an approval will be send to the system
administrator to approve or reject it.
Once the
Notifications has been set up, click on Blocking
Tasks
Browse to
the list of actions and enable the action you want to block when performed by
your users.
It's done.
How easier could
it be ?!?!?
