Using Secure Connectors

A Secure Connector facilitates the secure transfer of data between the IBM® WebSphere® App Connect 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 App Connect on Cloud.

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 App Connect connectors, such as, the HTTP connector, complete the following:

  1. Edit the endpoint details of the activity, to use the other endpoint behind firewall.
  2. Go to the Remote Endpoint Configuration section.
  3. Select the Endpoint Runs Behind Firewall check box to enable the Secure Connector Name field.
  4. 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.

  5. Click Discover. The Integration Appliance displays the list of all the Secure Connectors that are actively running.
  6. Select the Secure Connector that corresponds to the environment where the endpoint is running.
  7. 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.



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