Network virtualization platform management
The process through which new and existing firewall rules change has been designed from the Cloud Orchestrator (CO) consumption and orchestration platform. The process covers the lifecycle for establishing firewall rules in the cloud setup:
Firewall configuration process
Message Bus Client: The NSX Manager connected with the ESXi host with a secure protocol called AMQP. The Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP) is an open standard application layer protocol for message-oriented middleware. The defining functionalities of AMQP are message orientation, queuing, and routing, including the point-to-point and publish-and-subscribe model (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Publish%E2%80%93subscribe).
The vShield-Stateful-Firewall works as a RabbitMQ Client in the ESXi. It is a user space service daemon, and uses a TCP/5671 connection to the RabbitMQ server in the NSX manager. NSX Manager used the message bus to send different information to the ESXi hosts:
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