How to Discover Cloud Foundry Topology by WebServices

This task describes how to discover Cloud Foundry components using HTTP Protocol. This discovery process enables you to discover information about running applications, corresponding services, and service plans, service instances with information about spaces and organizations.

This task contains the following steps:

1. Prerequisites – Set up protocol credentials

   Cloud Foundry discovery uses the HTTP Protocol.

   For credential information, see Supported Protocols.

2. Configure the URI endpoint

   1. Retrieve the Cloud Foundry API endpoint.

      1. Run the cf api command in Cloud Foundry CLI. The output should be like as follows:

         

      2. Note down the API endpoint.

   2. Edit UriEndpointConfiguration.xml.

      1. Go to Data Flow Management > Adapter Management > Resources pane.
      2. Click the Find resource button, enter UriEndpointConfiguration.xml in the Name field, and then click the Find Next button.

      3. In UriEndpointConfiguration.xml, set the proper Data Flow Probe name on which the trigger UriEndpoint runs, set the url to the Cloud Foundry API endpoint that you noted down, and set the type to cloudfoundry as follows:

         <dataflowprobe name="<Data Flow Probe name>">
           <uri-endpoint>
             <url><Cloud Foundry API endpoint></url>
             <type>cloudfoundry</type>
           </uri-endpoint>
         </dataflowprobe>

3. Run the discovery

   Run the following jobs in the following order:

   1. Manual UriEndpoint Discovery

   2. CloudFoundry by Web Services

   For details on running jobs, refer to "Module/Job-Based Discovery" in the Universal CMDB Data Flow Management section of the UCMDB Online Help.