Cisco Cisco Intelligent Automation for Cloud 4.3.1 Guida All'Installazione

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Configuring Chef for Cisco IAC Integration

Setting Up Chef 12.0.x on Cisco PSC to Work with vCenter 6.x

Discovering the New Chef 12 Role 

: For more detailed information on the forms and navigation used in resource discovery, see Managing Resources 

Using Discovery of the 

Start Cisco IAC.

Select Setup > Manage Infrastructure.

Select Chef from the left platform elements column.

On the Chef page, click the Discover Chef Roles option. 

Click Submit Order.

Select Setup > Manage Infrastructure again.

Select Chef from the platform elements in the left-hand column.

Review the list of role names and verify that the new role name is in the list and is shown as “Discovered.”

Registering Environment and Roles

: For more detailed information on the forms and navigation used in roles, see User Roles and Capabilities. For 

information on resources, see Managing Services as well as Managing Resources Using Discovery of the 

You only need to register Roles and Environment. These elements should be displayed with a status of “Discovered.” 

To register a Role, find your the correct Role that you want to register (it will currently be listed as “Discovered”).

Click the gear icon 

⚙

 next to that Role and then choose Register Role from the popup.

On the Chef Role Registration form, enter:

A friendly name

An application code; for example:

iis for Windows

web (apache) for Linux

Price

Tenant access

Operating System: Part of registering role is selecting which platform the role supports. Options are Both, 
Windows, and Linux. This is a required field.

Click Submit.

: Register an Environment in the same way.

Ordering a Compute POD

: For more detailed information on the forms and navigation used in working with PODs, see Managing PODs of the 

Select Setup > System Settings > PODs.