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9 Enter the IP address, subnet mask, and default gateway for the vShield Manager virtual machine.
You need this information to attach a vCenter Server to Cloud Director.
10 Type exit to log out.
11 Close the console and leave the virtual machine running.
It is not necessary to synchronize vShield Manager with vCenter or register the vShield Manager as a
vSphere Client plug-in when you use vShield Manager with vCloud Director.
Installing and Configuring an AMQP Broker
AMQP, the Advanced Message Queuing Protocol, is an open standard for message queuing that supports
flexible messaging for enterprise systems. vCloud Director includes an AMQP service that you can configure
to work with an AMQP broker, such as RabbitMQ, to provide cloud operators with a stream of notifications
about events in the cloud. If you want to use this service, you must install and configure an AMQP broker.
Procedure
1 Download the RabbitMQ Server from http://info.vmware.com/content/12834_rabbitmq.
2 Follow the RabbitMQ installation instructions to install RabbitMQ on any convenient host.
The RabbitMQ server host must be reachable on the network by each vCloud Director cell.
3 During the RabbitMQ installation, make a note of the values that you will need to supply when configuring
vCloud Director to work with this RabbitMQ installation.
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The fully-qualified domain name of the RabbitMQ server host, for example amqp.example.com.
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A username and password that are valid for authenticating with RabbitMQ.
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The port at which the broker listens for messages. The default is 5672.
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The RabbitMQ virtual host. The default is "/".
What to do next
By default, the vCloud Director AMQP service sends unencrypted messages. If you configure it to encrypt
these messages using SSL, it verifies the broker's certificate by using the default JCEKS trust store of the Java
runtime environment on the vCloud Director server. The Java runtime environment is typically located in the
$JRE_HOME/lib/security/cacerts directory.
To use SSL with the vCloud Director AMQP service, select Use SSL on the AMQP Broker Settings section of
the Blocking Tasks page of the vCloud Director Web console provide an SSL certificate pathname or JCEKS
trust store pathname and password. If you do not want to validate certificates, because you trust all the
computers that connect to the vCloud Director AMQP service, you can select Accept all certificates.
Download and Install the VMware Public Key
The installation file is digitally signed. To verify the signature, you must download and install the VMware
public key.
You can use the Linux rpm tool and the VMware public key to verify the digital signature of the
vCloud Director installation file, or any other signed downloaded file from vmware.com. If you install the public
key on the computer where you plan to install vCloud Director, the verification happens as part of the
installation or upgrade. You can also manually verify the signature before you begin the installation or upgrade
procedure, then use the verified file for all installations or upgrades.
NOTE The download site also publishes a checksum value for the download. The checksum is published in
two common forms. Verifying the checksum verifies that the file contents that you downloaded are the same
as the contents that were posted. It does not verify the digital signature.
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