What are rubberbands?
“Rubberbands” are small software components that make connect all or part of an Elastic Server to an “ambient environment”. This might be connectors to enterprise monitoring systems like Tivoli or Unicenter, or small adaptors for ensuring an appropriate launch of a component in a computing cloud from vendors like Amazon or Flexiscale. For example, this includes linkages to our built in firewall, to the web-based admin screens, or setting desired default behavior for a particular stack component. We will be adding an initial set of rubberbands to connect popular components to the Elastic Server Manager. In the future we will provide a mechanism for community created rubberbands to be included in the component repository.
