vCO AMQP Plug-in

[istoyanov]

Overview

  AMQP plug-in for vCO provides the ability to interact with libraries implementing the AMQP protocol and in particular with Rabbit MQ server.

Goals

• Enable vCO to interact with an AMQP version 0-9-1 compliant implementation. (RabbitMQ is the primary target implementation)
• Enable vCO users to issue administrative commands to the AMQP server.
• Enable vCO users to send and receive messages from AMQP queues.

Main Use Cases

1. Define a AMQP host as invenotry object
2. Create an exchange
3. Create a queue
4. Bind a queue to an exchage
5. Send a message to an exchange
6. Receive message from a queue
7. Define a "Susbcription" inventory object that can function as a policy element. It is confugured with a set of AMQP queues and the policy activated whenever a message is received from any of the queues.

More information can be found on the vCenter Orchestrator Product Page:http://downloads.vmware.com/d/details/vco_snmp_plugin_10/dHRAYnQqJWpiZHBqaA==

An interesting use case of integrating vCloud Director Notifications & Task Extensions with vCO AMQP and HTTP-Rest plug-ins could be found here:

• Video demonstrating that integration: VCloudBlockingTasks.mp4
• Workflow packages used in the demo: BlockingTasksPackage.zip
• Step-by-Step tutorial for setting the demo: AMQPPlugin-vCloud Director - Notifications & Task Extensions.pdf
• Official blog post: http://blogs.vmware.com/orchestrator/2011/09/this-month-started-with-showing-a-great-example-of-vco-providing-process-automation-using-active-directory-email-and-webvie.html
• Configure the AMQP plug-in to monitor vCloud director blog post on vcoteam.info: http://www.vcoteam.info/learn-vco/configure-the-amqp-plug-in.html

A list of officially released plugins could be found here: http://www.vmware.com/products/datacenter-virtualization/vcenter-orchestrator/plugins.html

Note: This plug-in has been officially released.

[Christophe Decanini]

Is the requirements > 0.9.1 or >= 0.9.1 ?

[istoyanov]

It supports only 0.9.1. This is the current version of RabbitMQ. There are still not many implementations of 0.10 specifications.

[Christophe Decanini]

Then you may want to correct the goal "Enable vCO to interact with an AMQP version > 0-9-1 compliant implementation. (RabbitMQ is the primary target implementation)"

[istoyanov]

Corrected. Thanks for noticing.