Installing BlueCat Cisco DNA Generic IPAM Driver - Adaptive Applications - BlueCat Gateway

Before you begin, you must download the latest custom BlueCat Gateway image that contains the BlueCat Cisco DNA Generic IPAM Driver workflow.

Attention: BlueCat recommends configuring two Cisco DNA Generic IPAM Driver instances on the same network: one that acts as a primary instance and one that acts as a standby instance in the event of an outage with the primary instance.

Prerequisites:

You must have at least 2 CPUs and 8GB of RAM allocated to the host machine that will be running the BlueCat Gateway instance.
You must have Docker installed on the host machine that will be running the BlueCat Gateway instance. For more information, refer to the Requirements section of the BlueCat Gateway Installation Guide.
You must have an Address Manager server configured with the BlueCatGateway UDF and a BlueCat Gateway user. For more information, refer to the Configuring BlueCat Gateway section of the BlueCat Gateway Installation Guide.
You must have purchased the BlueCat Cisco DNA Generic IPAM Driver Adaptive Application from BlueCat.
You must have a Quay account that has been granted read access to the BlueCat Cisco DNA Generic IPAM Driver private repository.
For more information on setting up your Quay account, refer to the information that was provided when you purchased the BlueCat Cisco DNA Generic IPAM Driver from BlueCat.
You must have a Docker CLI password.
You can create one by clicking Generate Encrypted Password under Docker CLI Password on the Account Settings page in Quay.

Before you begin:

When you first install the BlueCat Cisco DNA Generic IPAM Driver Adaptive Application, BlueCat recommends performing the following:

Define a workspace:
- A workspace is the logical location for you to place your workflows and associated data, including configurations, libraries, requirements, permissions, and customizations; a workspace can be a Docker volume (recommended) or a volume on your local machine. For more information, refer to the Workspace section in the BlueCat Gateway Administration Guide.
Define a logs directory:
- A logs directory can be a Docker volume (recommended) or a volume on your local machine

Tip: BlueCat advises all customers to map Docker volumes for their respective workspace and logs directory to save data from the BlueCat Cisco DNA Generic IPAM Driver Adaptive Application. Volumes are completely managed by Docker and you do not need to set permissions manually when using Docker volumes. This is also the recommended practice for Docker containers. However, if you prefer to mount data and log volumes to your local machine, you must manually set rwx (read, write, execute) permissions to those directories before running the container. If you do not map data or log volumes to your local machine during installation, the BlueCat Cisco DNA Generic IPAM Driver Adaptive Application will write all the data to the container by default. If you then stop or restart the container, all this data will be lost.

To set permissions to external volumes, run the following command:

chmod -R o=rwx <mapped volume>

Note:

You can name the workspace and logs directory to anything.
The BlueCat Cisco DNA Generic IPAM Driver Adaptive Application saves configuration and workflow data to the workspace, and all execution and session logs to the mapped logs directory. If you do not map a workspace or a logs directory, all the configuration and logging data is written to the container by default.

To install the custom Gateway image:

From the host machine, run the following command:
```
docker login quay.io
```
At the prompt, enter your Quay user name and password obtained when generating the encrypted password.
Download the BlueCat Cisco DNA Generic IPAM Driver Adaptive Application from Quay using the following command:
```
docker pull quay.io/bluecat/dnac:22.1
```
Start the custom Gateway image using the following command:
```
docker run -d \
-p 80:8000 \
-p 443:44300 \
-v <path_to_mapped_log_directory>:/logs/ \
-v <path_to_mapped_data_directory>:/data/ \
-e BAM_IP=<your_bam_ip_address> \
--name <gateway_container_name> \
quay.io/bluecat/dnac:22.1
```
If you are using BlueCat Cisco DNA Generic IPAM Driver with custom certificates, you must store the certificate files locally within a <local_directory>/certificates/server folder and map that location to the /bluecat_gateway/certificates/server directory of the container to ensure that the certificates persist with the BlueCat Cisco DNA Generic IPAM Driver container. You can define custom certificates to be used with the container using the following command:
```
docker run -d \
-p 80:8000 \
-p 443:44300 \
-v <path_to_mapped_log_directory>:/logs/ \
-v <path_to_mapped_data_directory>:/data/ \
-v <local_directory>/certificates/server:/bluecat_gateway/certificates/server/ \
-e BAM_IP=<your_bam_ip_address> \
--name <gateway_container_name> \
quay.io/bluecat/dnac:22.1
```
Note: You cannot configure custom ports when running the BlueCat Cisco DNA Generic IPAM Driver container.

Installing BlueCat Cisco DNA Generic IPAM Driver - Adaptive Applications - BlueCat Gateway - 22.1

Cisco DNA Generic IPAM Driver Administration Guide