Cisco Cisco Intelligent Automation for Cloud 4.1 Installation Guide

NTP Server IP/Hostname: Enter the IP address or host name for your NTP server. Leave this option blank if NTP 
is not enabled above or a value is supplied by your DHCP server. This value will be overridden by the NTP server 
supplied by your DHCP server.

Oracle/PostgreSQL System DBA Password: The Service Catalog uses an Oracle database, and the Management 
Appliance’s credential manager uses a PostgreSQL database. Enter a password for the database administrative 
accounts (“system” and “sys” on Oracle; “postgres” on PostgreSQL). Alphanumeric characters only.

Service Catalog Database User Password: The Service Catalog uses an Oracle database. Enter a new password for 
the database username that owns the Service Catalog schema. Alphanumeric characters only.

Enable Prime Performance Manager: Choose this option to enable the Prime Performance Manager (PPM) server. 
The web interface will be available from https://<hostname>/ppm.

You can log into the PPM with the username “cisco” and the administrator password defined above.

Process Orchestrator Fully Qualified Domain Name: Enter the Cisco Process Orchestrator’s fully qualified domain 
name, or IP address. The management Appliance must communicate with a process orchestrator in order to 
perform network discovery.

Process Orchestrator Authentication Type: Choose the authentication type required to communicate with the 
Process Orchestrator.

Process Orchestrator Port: (optional) Enter the port that the management appliance will use to communicate with 
the Process Orchestrator. Default: 61527.

Process Orchestrator Username: Enter the username the management appliance will use to authenticate with the 
Process Orchestrator.

Process Orchestrator Password: Enter the password the management appliance will use to authenticate with the 
Process Orchestrator.

Process Orchestrator Domain (Windows NTLM): Enter the Windows domain. Leave blank when basic 
authentication is choose as the Process Orchestrator authentication type.

Assurance Control Password: Enter the password required to authenticate with the management appliance's 
Assurance Control API. 

This password must also be entered into the “Assurance Control Password” field when setting up the Cisco 
IAC Management Appliance cloud infrastructure element in the Prime Service Catalog.

Click Next.

In the Ready to Complete window, review the settings and then choose the “Power on after deployment” option. 

Click Finish. 

Your virtual machine is listed in the left pane of the vSphere Client under the appropriate host or cluster after the OVF Template 
deployment is complete. Access the Cisco IAC Virtual Appliance by pointing your web browser to the dynamically-assigned IP 
address or to the appliance’s hostname, if DNS services are available. You will use this IP address to access the Cisco Prime 
Service Catalog application running on the virtual machine. Instructions on how to access the service catalog are provided in 
the Logging into Cisco Prime Service Catalog section that follows.

Open a browser session from a computer that is different from the virtual machine created in the last section. 

In the browser’s address line, enter an IP address or hostname. Enter the IP address as http://<ipaddress> (or 
https://<ipaddress>

 if SSL support was enabled during the deployment), where <ipaddress> is the IP address 

of the Prime Service Catalog virtual appliance that you deployed in the previous section. The Prime Service Catalog user 
interface displays the Login window.