Service Setup

These instructions should be used when you have finished building your application on cloud.rc, and are ready to publish your application to be used outside campus.

Firewall Exception

When you are ready to open ports to your application instance to the world, use the following steps:

• Go to the UAB ServiceNow Portal
• Click on Security Exception (Firewall Rule Change).

• Fill out the form:

  Requester BlazerID

  Fill out your BlazerID. If you're making the request on someone else's behalf then use their BlazerID.

  Application Name

  Specify the application name or the DNS entry for your application i.e. docs.uabgrid.uab.edu

  Source IP Addresses

  If your application would interact with particular IPs, then mention them here with a comma separator. If it should be open to anyone outside campus then use Any

  Destination IP Addresses

  IP Address of your OpenStack instance.

  Destination TCP Port List

  Port that needs to be open. In case of a webapp request, you need to open 80,443

  Destination UDP Port List (Enter N/A if not applicable)

  N/A

  Other Protocols (Enter N/A if not applicable)

  N/A

  System/Application Information

  Check all that apply.

  What type of sensitive or restricted data is stored or processed?

  Check all that apply.

  Select number of months needed for exception

  Select as needed. 12 months is the maximum allowed timeline.

  Justification/Description

  Specify the reason you want to apply for security exception, and how the application would be used.

• Hit Submit button.

DNS Record Setup

Email AskIT, and specify that you want to create a new A record for the IP address of you instance, and the DNS entry you requested a SSL certificate for.