Set container's basic information

Every container in a fabric requires a name. In addition there are some general options you can specify for all container types.

Name

Specifies the name for the new container. The name must be unique within the fabric. It must not include: spaces, asterisks (*), commas (,), dollar signs ($), colons (:), semi-colons (;), percent signs (%), back slashes (\), or other special characters.

Important: This field in mandatory.

Options

Make container a distributed registry server

Selecting this option will make this container a fabric registry agent. It will be one of the containers responsible for maintaining the fabric's registry data.

Tip: Fabric registry agents should not host any application services.

Enable remote debugging

Selecting this option makes the container emit JMX statistics.

Maven Proxy URL

Setting this option will direct the container to use the provided Maven proxy for downloading any required artifacts.

Count

Specifies how many clones of the container to create. The clones will append an instance number to the value specified in the Name field. For example, if the specified name was esb, the resulting containers will be named esb1, esb2, esb3, etc..