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NCD – What are Behaviors?

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Navisite Cloud Director (NCD) provides the ability to quickly configure common network behaviors (e.g., FTP, SSH, HTTP, and HTTPS) for virtual machines (VMs), including the automatic creation of necessary firewall and Network Address Translation (NAT) rules. Two types of behaviors are available:
  • Public Service behaviors automatically configure network settings to allow a VM to be accessed publicly via the internet. Only necessary ports are opened.

  • Internal Service behaviors automatically configure network settings to allow a VM to be accessed internally on a vDataCenter (vDC) network. Only necessary ports are opened.
If errors are encountered while a behavior is being added, NCD attempts to automatically correct them. Certain errors require user intervention for correction.

To view a list of configured behaviors for a VM, click Behaviors in the "Configuration" section of the VM detail page.

VMs configured with behaviors have the "Internal Service" or "Public Service" feature tag and therefore may be found through global search.

If you search for tag:Internal Service or tag:Public Service, the search results list VMs that have such behaviors configured. Click any listed VM to navigate to its detail page.


  • Configuring Common VM Network Behaviors

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