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Connecting elements, or wiring, is act of connecting nodes of an infrastructure together using wires. By clicking on a port of an element and then clicking on the port of another element, you wire the ports of those two elements together. At this time, a hardware element must connect to a network element. Ports highlight in green color whenever a wiring connection is possible at that element. |
When wires are connected and disconnected, any impact that the connection/disconnect should have on any application Load Balancers or Load Balancer groups, will take effect immediately. This is also true for Firewalls and the elements to which they allow and deny access.
Each node, or element, includes one or more ports. A port often represents a network interface card (NIC) for that node, but not always. In general, the port can receive a connection in a network.
The Internet and subnet nodes are "network" nodes.
The firewall, load balancer, server/group, and backhaul are "hardware" nodes.
A hardware node must be connected to a network node and vice-versa.
Ports are highlighted in green whenever a wiring connection can be initiated or completed at that node.
If you connect or disconnect a wire, the gateway software validates the change so you can immediately see the affect and make corrections if necessary.
Notes:
1) Attempting an invalid connection between elements returns a message explaining why it's invalid.
2) The "trusted" interface on a firewall must be set up before you can submit the design for validation.
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