Nirvana Enterprise Manager - Interfaces

Introduction

Interfaces within a Nirvana Realm Server define a protocol, a network interface and a port number. When a Nirvana client connects to a realm using an RNAME, they are actually connecting to an Interface that has been created on the Nirvana Realm.

If a machine that is running a Nirvana Realm has multiple physical network interfaces, with different IP addresses, it is possible to bind specific protocols to specific ports. This way you are able to segment incoming network traffic to specific clients.

For example, if a realm is running on a machine that has an external internet facing network interface, as well as an internal interface, you can create a Nirvana interface that uses nhp or nhps on port 80 or 443 respectively using the external facing interface.

If on the other hand when there are multiple network interfaces, and you do not wish to segment network traffic for specific protocols, you can specify to bind to all known network interfaces to the specified protocol and port.

The default realm setting when you first install Nirvana creates a Nirvana Socket Protocol Interface that binds to port 9000, on all known network interfaces.

Once this basic understanding of Nirvana interfaces is understood, you can then set about performing a number of operations using the Nirvana Enterprise Manager:

Creating Interfaces
Deleting Interfaces
Creating SSL Interfaces
Stopping Interfaces
Starting Interfaces
Interface Configuration
Modify Interfaces
Interface Plugins
Interface VIA rules