Adding a Middleware Provider to {product-title_short}

Note
 This release of the middleware provider is a technical preview. Technology Previews provide early access to upcoming product innovations, letting you to test new features and provide feedback during the development process. Technology Preview releases are not intended for production use. For more information see the Red Hat Customer Portal.

The middleware provider extends {product-title_short} management capabilities to JBoss Middleware application containers running in managed virtual machines, hosts, and Linux containers. The provider delivers inventory, events, metrics, and power operations. Middleware management in {product-title_short} is a provider based on the Hawkular open source project. When feature complete, the middleware provider will replace the current Red Hat middleware management offering, JBoss Operations Network.

  1. Log in to the {product-title_short} Management Engine as a user who has permissions to add providers. The default user is admin, password smartvm.

  2. Navigate to menu:Middleware[Providers].

  3. Click 1847.png (Configuration), then click 1862.png (Add a New Middleware Provider).

  4. Enter a Name for the provider, for example, Middleware Manager.

  5. From the Type list, select Hawkular.

  6. Accept the default Zone.

  7. Under Endpoints, configure the following for the middleware provider:

    1. Select a Security protocol method to specify how to authenticate to the provider:

      • SSL (SSL with validation) – Authenticate to the provider securely using a trusted certificate authority. This requires that you have already configured your public and private keys in the /client-secrets directory as either two .PEM files or as a single .pkcs12 file.

      • SSL trusting custom CA - Authenticate to the provider with a self-signed certificate. For this option, copy your certificate’s text to the Trusted CA Certificates field in .PEM format.

      • SSL without validation – Authenticate to the provider insecurely (not recommended).

      • Non-SSL - Select if you do not want to use SSL.

    2. Enter the Hostname or IPv4 or IPv6 address of the machine where you installed the middleware manager.

    3. Enter the API Port of the middleware manager. The default is 8080.

    4. Enter the User Name used to start the middleware manager. This should match the HAWKULAR_USERNAME.

    5. Enter the Password used to start the middleware manager. This should match the HAWKULAR_PASSWORD.

    6. Reenter the password in the Confirm Password field.

    7. Click Validate to confirm that the user has the proper credentials.

  8. Click Add.

  9. Click 1847.png (Configuration), then click 2003.png (Refresh Items and Relationships).

{product-title} displays the Summary screen.

Provider Summary Screen