Integrating with VMware Tanzu Application Service for VMs Cloud Foundry

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.

Planning for the connection

• Depending on the location (SaaS, on-premises) of the third-party product, choose one or more BMC Helix Intelligent Integrations deployment modes and review the corresponding port requirements. For information about various deployment modes and port requirements, see Deployment-scenarios.
• Based on the deployment modes, use the BMC Helix Intelligent Integrations SaaS deployment or the BMC Helix Intelligent Integrations on-premises gateway or both. For more information about the gateway, see Deploying-the-BMC-Helix-Intelligent-Integrations-on-premises-gateway.

• The on-premises gateway must be able to reach the third-party product on the required port (default is 443).

In the preceding list, third-party product refers to Cloud Foundry. 

Configuring the connection with Cloud Foundry

1. Access BMC Helix Intelligent Integrations:
   • BMC Helix Intelligent Integrations SaaS – Log on to BMC Helix Portal, and click Launch on BMC Helix Intelligent Integrations.
   • BMC Helix Intelligent Integrationson-premises gateway – Use one of the following URLs to access BMC Helix Intelligent Integrations:
     • http://<hostName>:<portNumber>/swpui
     • https://<hostName>:<portNumber>/swpui
2. On the  CONNECTORS  tab, click in the SOURCES panel.
3. Click Cloud Foundry.
4. Specify the following source connection details:

   1. Specify a unique instance name.

      Best practice

      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.
5. Click VALIDATE AND CREATE .
   The specified connection details are validated and the corresponding source connection is created in the Source Connection list.

6. 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 when you create a connection for a source. 

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.

Verifying 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.

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

Viewing data in BMC Helix applications

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 Managing models.. 

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.