+All the interactions between Holmes and other ONAP components are routed by MSB or Ingress. In order to register Holmes itself to MSB, the users have to specify the IP address of the host using the ``HOST_IP`` variable. Please note that the ``HOST_IP`` should be the IP address of the host, rather than the IP address of the containers (of which the IP address is allocated by the docker daemon).
+``ENABLE_ENCRYPT`` specifies whether HTTPS is enabled. When it is set to "false", only the HTTP schema is allowed. Otherwise, only HTTPS is allowed. ``LOCAL_PATH_THAT_STORES_THE_CONFIG_FILES`` specifies the place where corresponding configuration files are stored. The configuration files should be organized as `files for the rule management module <https://gerrit.onap.org/r/gitweb?p=oom.git;a=tree;f=kubernetes/holmes/components/holmes-rule-mgmt/resources/rules;h=e3071f02c0143bd5774967bd7148d73afeb8a17c;hb=HEAD>`_ and `files for the engine management module <https://gerrit.onap.org/r/gitweb?p=oom.git;a=tree;f=kubernetes/holmes/components/holmes-engine-mgmt/resources/config;h=6a43bc35fa56731379956da08f766aa8d0abdd53;hb=HEAD>`_ (only *cfy.json* is needed in the standalone mode).
+All the addresses are organized in the form of (taking A&AI as an example) ``http(s)://$PRE_ADDR$AAI_ADDR$POST_ADDR.$BASE_URL`` within Holmes. Whether TLS is enabled depends on the value of the environment variable ``ENABLE_ENCRYPT``