Setting Up

After you log in to Policy Change Automation for Cisco ACI (PCA), complete the information in the Settings () menu and click Save.

• Connecting to SecureChange: Credentials to get the Access Request workflow information from SecureChange.

• Connecting to Ansible: Credentials to send and receive information to Ansible playbooks.

• Setting up e-mail notifications: Configuration to send e-mail notifications with the status.

• Setting up monitoring frequency: Monitoring frequency for Ansible and SecureTrack jobs.

• Defining log levels: Log levels are used for debugging and determine the information that is collected in the log files.

Connecting to SecureChange

The username and password must be for a SecureChange user with the permission Create and handle tickets on behalf of another user (via API only). If you have not logged in using these credentials, log into SecureChange with this username to validate it.

• Login username
• Login password

Connecting to Ansible AWX/Tower

In this section, enter the API access credentials that can run and create Ansible jobs.

• Host: Type the URL for the AWX/Tower server. You can use a full path (for example http://10.10.10.10:3456) or a partial path (for example 10.10.10.10:3456). https is the default protocol and 443 is the default port.

• Login username

• Login password

Setting up E-mail Notifications

PCA sends out e-mail notifications when the sync with the Cisco ACI fabric fails to complete successfully.

1. Enter the following information for the outgoing Email notifications:

   • Outgoing SMTP server

   • Port

   • Sender email address

   • Login user name

   • Login password

2. If you want the Email notifications to be secure, select Enable TLS.

Setting up Monitoring Frequency

In this section, define the frequency at which these jobs occur.

• Ansible jobs monitoring (in seconds)

• Fetching SecureTrack ACI network objects (in minutes)

Defining Log Levels

In the Log Level section, select the appropriate log level.

Log Level	Description
ERROR	Messages with error and critical levels are logged.
WARNING	Messages with error, critical, and warning levels are logged.
INFO	Messages with error, critical, warning, and info levels are logged.
DEBUG	All message levels.

If you change the log level, the change takes effect immediately and the web server restarts.

To view the log, run the command kubectl logs -f -l app=pca.