Cisco Cisco Intelligent Automation for Cloud 3.1 User Guide
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Product Overview
Cisco Intelligent Automation for Cloud is a management and automation solution for private, public, and hybrid compute
clouds. It provides a self-service experience for cloud end users through a web-based portal, taking service orders, and
provisioning them through automation and integration with the infrastructure and supporting data center systems.
clouds. It provides a self-service experience for cloud end users through a web-based portal, taking service orders, and
provisioning them through automation and integration with the infrastructure and supporting data center systems.
The solution includes the following integrated platform products:
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Cisco Cloud Portal is the end user facing service catalog and self-service portal
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Cisco Process Orchestrator is the provisioning automation and integration platform
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Cisco Server Provisioner is the bare-metal software provisioning platform.
IAC is deployed as a solution that contains a set of preconfigured catalog services, service forms, portal pages and portlets,
integration adapters, and automation processes.
integration adapters, and automation processes.
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IAC Installation Overview
Deploying the IAC solution requires the installation of Cisco Cloud Portal and Cisco Process Orchestrator, as well as the IAC
solution content packages. If bare metal provisioning is required, Cisco Server Provisioner must also be installed. This section
describes how to deploy the solution using the Cloud Portal for IAC virtual appliance and a standard installation of the other
components.
solution content packages. If bare metal provisioning is required, Cisco Server Provisioner must also be installed. This section
describes how to deploy the solution using the Cloud Portal for IAC virtual appliance and a standard installation of the other
components.
The Cloud Portal virtual appliance for IAC 3.1.1 is an OVF Template that contains the following preconfigured software
components:
components:
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Operating System—CentOS Linux (version 5.7) 64-bit
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Web Server—Apache Web Server for Linux 64-bit (version 2.2.3)
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Java—Oracle Java SE Runtime Environment 6 Update 39
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Application Server—JBoss Application Server (version 7.1.1.Final)
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Database—Oracle Express Edition 11g R2 (version 11.2.0.2)
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Cisco Software:
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Cloud Portal Release 9.4.1
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Cisco Intelligent Automation for version 3.1.1 - contents for Cloud Portal
Here are the high level steps to install IAC solution using Cisco Cloud Portal virtual appliance:
Step 1
See the “Solution Prerequisites” chapter of
to prepare
your environment to install the IAC solution.
Note
The Installation Requirements for the Cloud Portal Virtual Appliance as described in section
of this document, supersede the solution prerequisites for the Cloud Portal
software described in the
. Review those requirements to
understand the overall hardware and software prerequisites.
Step 2
Deploy the Cisco Cloud Portal virtual appliance for IAC as described in
Step 3
Install Cisco Process Orchestrator and Cisco Server Provisioner. See the instructions described in Chapter 2 of
Also, see
Step 4
Complete the configuration of the IAC solution. See