{"id":730,"date":"2021-05-16T17:24:01","date_gmt":"2021-05-16T16:24:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thomas-kopton.de\/vblog\/?p=730"},"modified":"2021-11-13T16:18:57","modified_gmt":"2021-11-13T15:18:57","slug":"vrealize-operations-amqp-integration-using-webhooks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomas-kopton.de\/vblog\/?p=730","title":{"rendered":"vRealize Operations AMQP Integration using Webhooks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

With the version 8.4 vRealize Operations introduced the Webhook Outbound Plugin<\/span><\/strong> feature. This new Webhook outbound plugin works without any additional software, the Webhook Shim server becomes obsolet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this post, I will explain how to integrate vRealize Operations<\/span><\/strong> with an AMQP<\/span><\/strong> system. For this exercise, I have deployed a RabbitMQ<\/span><\/strong> server but the concept should be the same for any AMQP implementation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AMQP Basic Concept<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Without going into details of AMQP the very basic concept is to provide a queue<\/span> for producers<\/span> and consumers<\/span>. The producers can put items into the queue and consumers can pick up these items and do whatever they are supposed to do with those items.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Items may be e.g. messages, therefore Advanced Message Queuing Protocol or AMQP. One of the most known implementations of AMQP is RabbitMQ<\/span>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Figure 1: Basic AMQP concept<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

In the context of vRealize Operations, we could consider vROps the producer and triggered alerts the items we could put into a queue to let consumers retrieve the items and do some work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

RabbitMQ Exchange and Queue<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

As first step I have configured my RabbitMQ instance with three queues:<\/p>\n\n\n\n