Integration Points for EdgeConnect Orchestrator and Gateways
Integration of HPE Aruba Networking EdgeConnect SD-WAN into various IT & OSS/BSS systems can span a number of different functional areas, depending on what type of integration, automation, or aggregation is desired. Below is a table that describes various integration use cases and the recommended integration points, based on what the API was designed for.
| Integration Use-Case | Integration Points: |
|---|---|
Realtime Alarm Monitoring - Asynchronous streaming of alarm & clear notifications | Appliance: via SNMP & Syslog Orchestrator (recommended): Orchestrator Notification Service for Alarms from all appliances and Orchestrator (via Remote Syslog, HTTP/HTTPS, Websocket, or Kafka) |
Audit Log Monitoring - Asynchronous streaming of audit log event notifications | Appliance: Syslog Orchestrator: Orchestrator Notification Service for Orchestrator Audit Logs (via Remote Syslog, HTTP/HTTPS, WebSocket, or Kafka) |
Flow-level Performance Data Streaming - Real-time streaming of flow records | Appliance: IPFIX, Netflow |
Firewall Logging - Logging of FW deny actions | Appliance: Syslog, Netflow, IPFIX |
Topology & Resource Discovery - Retrieval of SD-WAN topology resources | Orchestrator: REST APIs for Appliances, Tunnels & Interface Resources |
EC Pre-configuration - Definition of appliance config before the appliance is deployed | Orchestrator: YAML Pre-Configuration |
EC Post-deployment config - Adding incremental configuration to existing appliance | Orchestrator: YAML Config & Apply (recommended), REST API for specific configuration modules |
EC-V Bootstrapping - Initialization of EC-V w/ account name/key and MAC | Appliance: CloudInit spcustom.yml file |
| Aggregated Statistics Retrieval | Orchestrator and Appliance: REST API polling for aggregate statistics |
| Realtime Statistics Retrieval | Orchestrator and Appliance: REST API polling for real-time statistics |
| User Management & RBAC | Orchestrator and Appliance: REST API |
| Orchestrator Configuration | Orchestrator: REST API for any Orchestrator meta-data configuration |