Configuring the SAE for External Plug-Ins
You need to configure SAE external plug-ins for SAE plug-in agents in the NIC, for Admission Control Plug-Ins, and for custom plug-ins developed in Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA). For information about external plug-ins, see SRC-PE Network Guide, Chapter 1, Overview of the SAE.
When you use an external plug-in, you need to export its object reference to the SAE. When the SAE sends the first event to a registered plug-in, it resolves the object reference. In case of a failure, the SAE resolves the object reference again. In this case, if a plug-in restarts and instantiates a different object (that is, a different object reference), the SAE learns about the new object through the naming service or the file reference.
You can configure the SAE to resolve the object reference and specify which attributes to send to the external plug-in. To do so with SDX Configuration Editor:
- In the Plug-In Pool area of the Plug-Ins pane, create an external plug-in instance as described in Creating Plug-In Instances.
The instance appears in the Plug-In Pool area.
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CORBA Object reference
- Object reference of the external plug-in that is exported to the SAE. When the SAE sends the first event to a registered external plug-in, it resolves the object reference.
- Value—Supply the object reference in one of the following forms:
- The absolute path to the interoperable object reference (IOR) file in the form file://<absolutePath>
- The corbaloc URL in the format
corbaloc::<host>:<portNumber>/<path>
- <host>—Name or IP address of the host that supports the plug-in
- <portNumber>—TCP/IP port number
- <path>—Absolute path to plug-in
corbaname::<host>[:<port>][/NameService]#<key>
- Absolute path—file:///var/acp/acp.ior
- corbaloc URL—corbaloc:boston:8801/acp
- Actual IOR—
IOR:000000000000002438444C3A736D67742E6A756E697...Attributes
- Attributes that are sent to the external plug-in.
NOTE: Configure only the attributes required. If you do not specify attributes, all attributes are sent. Specifying fewer attributes improves the performance of the SRC network.
- Value—Comma-separated list of plug-in attributes. For a list of attributes and descriptions, see the documentation for the sspPlugin.idl file in the SRC software distribution at /SDK/doc/idl/sspPlugin/html/index.html or on the Juniper Networks Web site at
http://www.juniper.net/techpubs/software/management/sdx/api-index.htmlDefault—Comma-separated list of all possible attributes Property name—attr