Integrating with Cloud Foundry

VMware Tanzu Application Service for VMs Cloud Foundry is an opinionated application platform designed to bring efficiency, security, and speed to custom development organizations. Cloud Foundry makes it faster and easier to build, test, deploy, and scale applications, providing a choice of the underlying infrastructure, developer frameworks, and application services.

Configure an integration with Cloud Foundry to view topology data from Cloud Foundry in the following products and derive actionable insights: 

  • Topology in BMC Helix Discovery
  • Services in BMC Helix AIOps

Related topics

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As a tenant administrator, perform the following steps to integrate with Cloud Foundry, verify the integration, and view the collected topology data in various BMC products.

Plan for the connection

  • Choose the BMC Helix Intelligent Integrations deployment mode and review the corresponding port requirements. For information about various deployment modes and port requirements, see Deployment-scenarios.
  • Based on the deployment mode, either use BMC Helix Intelligent Integrations or deploy the BMC Helix Intelligent Integrations on-premises gateway. For more information, see Deploying-the-BMC-Helix-Intelligent-Integrations-on-premises-gateway.

To integrate with Cloud Foundry

  1. In BMC Helix Intelligent Integrations, on the  CONNECTORS  tab, click add_icon.pngin the SOURCES panel.
  2. Click the Cloud Foundry tile.
  3. Specify the following source connection details:

    1. Specify a unique instance name.

      Recommendation

      We recommend that you specify the instance name in the following format: 

      <sourceType>_<sourceControllerServerName>{_<InstanceQualifier>}                    
                        

      The instance qualifier helps you to distinguish the multiple instances configured from the same source server. For example, you can name your instances as, CF_Host_PROD, CF_Host_TEST, and so on.

    2. Specify the Cloud Foundry  host name and port number (default value is 443).
    3. Specify the user name and password. Ensure that the specified user can access the Cloud Foundry  REST API.

    4. Select the HTTPS check box if you plan to use an https connection to the Cloud Foundry host.

      Caution

      We recommend that you do not select the Allow Unsigned Certificate option in a production environment.  You might want to select this option to allow unsigned certificates in a test environment. See the Dynatrace  documentation to learn how to install SSL certificates.

    5. Specify the number of maximum concurrent REST API requests that should be executed during a collection schedule (d efault value is 5).
    6. Specify the Client ID.
    7. Specify the Client password.
    8. Specify a valid API key. For more information, see the Cloud Foundry documentation.
  4. Click VALIDATE AND CREATE .
    The specified connection details are validated and the corresponding source connection is created in the Source Connection list.

  5. Select the source connection that you created from the list if it is not selected already.

    Important

    The destination host connection is created and configured automatically for each tenant when the source connection is created.

  6. Ensure that the options for the datatypes for which you want to collect data are selected.

  7. Click the topology data type and specify the configuration parameters in the Collectors section as described in the following table:

  8. Click CREATE COLLECTORS  to create the required collector streams for the topology data type.
  9. Click the topology data type and specify the configuration parameters in the Distributors section as described in the following table:
     
  10. Click CREATE DISTRIBUTORS to create the required distributor streams for the topology data type.
  11. Click one of the following buttons:
    • SAVE STREAM : Click this button if you want to edit the integration details before creating the instance. After you save the stream, the instance that you created is listed in the SOURCES panel. Move the slider to the right to start the topology data stream.
    • SAVE AND START STREAM : Click this button if you want to save the integration details and start receiving topology data immediately.

          For more information about data streams, see Starting-or-stopping-data-streams.


To verify the integration

In BMC Helix Intelligent Integrations , on the SOURCES panel, confirm that the topology data stream for the integration you created is running. Data streaming is indicated by moving colored arrows.

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A moving light blue arrow (TopologyStream_Icon.png) that the topology stream is running. Topology data will be pushed according to the configured Collection Schedule interval.

To view topology in BMC Helix Discovery

In BMC Helix Discovery, select Explore > Data, and click <count> Import Records in the Miscellaneous section. The Import Record List page shows the CI records received from Cloud Foundry . For information about records, see Managing your IT infrastructure .

To view services in BMC Helix AIOps

Before you view services in BMC Helix AIOps, create a Business Service model in BMC Helix Discovery. For information about creating models, see Creating a model . 

In BMC Helix AIOps, on the Overview page to view the services for the topology data received from Cloud Foundry . For more information about services, see Monitoring key performance indicators and entities.

 

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