## Adding fabric details

### Overview

For the developer tools to connect to a fabric, you must provide certain details about the fabric.

### Procedure

To specify the details for connecting to a fabric:

1. In Fabric Explorer, right-click Fabrics to open the context menu, and then select Add Fabric details to open the Fabric Details wizard, as shown in Figure 14.

   Figure 14. Fabric Details wizard

2. In Name, enter the name of the fabric to which you want to connect. The name you enter identifies the fabric whose location you specify in URLs, and this name will appear in Fabric Explorer.

   The default Name is Local Fabric.

3. In URLs, enter the url, in the form `hostname:port`, of the fabric to which you want to connect. This URL specifies the location of a fabric registry agent, whose default port is `2181`.

   The default URL is localhost:2181.

4. In User name, enter the name used to log into the specified fabric.

   This is the new user name specified when the fabric was created or is stored in Red Hat Fuse IDE's `installDir``/etc/users.properties` file. In that file, user information is specified using this format: `user=password,role` (for example, `admin=admin,admin`).

   You can also discover the user name by issuing the command `JBossFuse:karaf@root>jaas:users`, if the Jaas realm has been selected for the fabric.

5. In Password, enter the password required for User name to log into the specified fabric.

   This is the password specified for the new user name when the fabric was created or is stored in Red Hat Fuse IDE's `installDir``/etc/users.properties` file.

6. In Zookeeper Password, enter the password required for logging into the specified fabric's zookeeper registry.

   This is the password that was specified or generated when the fabric was created, or it is the user's password stored in Red Hat Fuse IDE's `installDir``/etc/users.properties` file.

   You can also discover the Zookeeper password by issuing the command `JBossFuse:karaf@root>fabric:ensemble-password`.

7. Click OK.

   The fabric's name appears in Fabric Explorer as a node beneath Fabrics.

   | Note
   Before you can view or modify a fabric's containers, profiles or versions, you must connect to the fabric. For details see Connecting to a fabric

### Related topics

Deleting a fabric's details