Creating Nuage fabric connectors

With FortiManager, you can create a fabric connector for Nuage Virtualized Service Platform, and then import address names from Nuage to automatically create dynamic objects that you can use in policies. When you install the policies to one or more FortiGate units, FortiGate uses the information to communicate with Nuage Virtualized Service Platform and dynamically populate the objects with IP addresses.

When you create a fabric connector for Nuage Virtualized Service Platform, you are specifying how FortiGate can communicate directly with Nuage.

Requirements:

• FortiGate is managed by FortiManager.
• The managed FortiGate unit is configured to work with Nuage Virtualized Service Platform.

To create a fabric connector object for Nuage:

1. Go to Fabric View > External Connectors, and click Create New. The Create New Fabric Connector wizard is displayed.
2. Under Private SDN, select Nuage Virtualized Service Platform. The Nuage Virtualized Service Platform screen is displayed.

   

3. Configure the following options, and then click OK:

   Type	Displays Nuage Virtualized Services Platform.
   Name	Type a name for the fabric connector object.
   Status	Toggle On to enable the fabric connector object. Toggle OFF to disable the fabric connector object.
   IP	Type the IP address.
   Port	Perform one of the following options: Click Use Default to use the default port. Click Specify and type the port number.
   User Name	Type the Nuage user name.
   Password	Type the Nuage password.

4. Click OK to save the connector.

To complete the fabric connector setup:

1. Import address names or manually create the dynamic firewall address for the SDN connector. See Importing address names to fabric connectors and Configuring dynamic firewall addresses for fabric connectors.
2. In the policy package in which you will be creating the new policy, create a firewall policy and include the dynamic firewall address objects for the SDN connector. See Create a new firewall policy.
3. Install the policy package to FortiGate. See Install a policy package.

   FortiGate communicates with the SDN to dynamically populate the firewall address objects with IP addresses.