Chapter 22. Specifying and Connecting to a Fabric

In Fabric Navigator, right-click Fabrics to open the context menu, and then select Add Fabric details to open the Fabric Details wizard, as shown in Figure 22.1.

In Name, enter the name of the fabric to which you want to connect. The name you enter identifies the fabric whose location you specify in URLs, and this name will appear in Fabric Navigator.

The default Name is Local Fabric.

In URLs, enter the url, in the form hostname:port, of the fabric to which you want to connect. This URL specifies the location of a fabric registry agent, whose default port is 2181.

The default URL is localhost:2181.

In User name, enter the name used to log into the specified fabric.

This is the new user name specified when the fabric was created or is stored in Red Hat JBoss Fuse Plugins for Eclipse's installDir/etc/users.properties file. In that file, user information is specified using this format: user=password,role (for example, admin=admin,admin).

You can also discover the user name by issuing the command JBossFuse:karaf@root>jaas:users, if the Jaas realm has been selected for the fabric.

In Password, enter the password required for User name to log into the specified fabric.

This is the password specified for the new user name when the fabric was created or is stored in Red Hat JBoss Fuse Plugins for Eclipse's installDir/etc/users.properties file.

In Zookeeper Password, enter the password required for logging into the specified fabric's zookeeper registry.

This is the password that was specified or generated when the fabric was created, or it is the user's password stored in Red Hat JBoss Fuse Plugins for Eclipse's installDir/etc/users.properties file.

You can also discover the Zookeeper password by issuing the command JBossFuse:karaf@root>fabric:ensemble-password.

Click OK.

The fabric's name appears in Fabric Navigator as a node beneath Fabrics.