A Secure Connector facilitates the secure transfer of data
between the IBM® WebSphere® Cast Iron® appliance and an endpoint that
is located behind a firewall. You can perform the run time verification
of the orchestration against an endpoint behind a firewall from Studio,
using Secure Connectors. This feature of discovering Secure Connectors
and verifying the orchestrations in Studio, is applicable only for
the Integration Appliance and not for Cast Iron Live.
Before you begin
To verify the orchestration in Studio using Secure Connector,
you must complete the following tasks:
Create a Secure Connector on the appliance.
Download the configuration file and the installer for the Secure
Connector from the appliance, and install it on a machine behind the
firewall.
Start the Secure Connector that was installed in the earlier
step, and ensure that the status of the Secure Connector in the Integration
Appliance, is displayed as "running".
Procedure
Configure the orchestration with a locally accessible
endpoint, which is a replica of the endpoint behind the firewall.
To
use Secure Connectors for the verification of the orchestration from
Studio for the compatible Cast
Iron connectors, such as, the HTTP connector, complete the following:
- Edit the endpoint details of the activity, to use the other
endpoint behind firewall.
- Go to the Remote Endpoint Configuration section.
- Select the Endpoint Runs Behind Firewall check
box to enable the Secure Connector Name field.
- Click Browse and specify the details
of the Integration Appliance, where the Secure Connectors are registered. The Discover Secure Connectors dialog
is displayed.
The appliance users of the Publisher or Admin group
can connect to the appliance through Studio, to discover the Secure
Connectors.
- Click Discover. The
Integration Appliance displays the list of all the Secure Connectors
that are actively running.
- Select the Secure Connector that corresponds to the environment
where the endpoint is running.
- Save the project and perform the verification of the orchestration.
During the verification of the orchestration in the Studio
environment, the connector will execute the activity using the Secure
Connector that you configured through the Integration appliance. You
can now test the orchestration against an environment situated on
a different network other than the Studio environment.
Note: - The Discover Secure Connectors dialog displays
only those Secure Connectors that are currently in the "running" state.
So, ensure that the Secure Connector is started in the on-premise
environment.
- The communication between Studio and Appliance is through HTTP
transport.
- For an old project, you must import the project into the Studio
and perform the steps described above.
- The test connection and discovery of the artifacts through a Secure
Connector is not currently supported from the Studio environment.