Configure Cisco Secure Applications

Configure Cisco Secure Applications settings, feed keys, and feed data after deploying Splunk AppDynamics services.

Ensure the following conditions are met:
  • The feed key file and feed data file are available on your local computer.
  • The secureapp service is installed.

Enable the Secure Application Service in the Controller Account

Complete these steps in the Administration Console to enable the Secure Application service:

  1. Log in to the Administration Console:
    BASH 
    https://<controller-hostname>/controller/admin.jsp
  2. Edit your account to add the property:
    BASH 
    argento.enabled = true
  3. Log out of Administration Console, then log into the Controller:
    BASH 
    https://<controller-hostname>/controller/

Assign Roles

Assign roles to the admin user using the Splunk AppDynamics Administration Console.

  1. Assign Configure Secure Application account permission to the users who are required to modify configurable fields on the Secure Application dashboard.

  2. Assign View Secure Application account permission to users who are required to only monitor the dashboard.

See Account Permissions for details.

Manual Feed Download

Manual feed downloads are required when your on-premises deployment is in an air-gapped environment and does not have access to the internet. For manual feed downloads, you must request an air-gap feed key from Customer Support and configure that key using the CLI. Once that's configured, you need to periodically download the feed file from the Downloads Portal and upload it to your on-premises deployment using the CLI. We recommend doing this on a daily basis.

Example command to set the air-gap key:

Note: You only need use this command once. After the first instance, you can start daily uploads.
BASH 
./appdcli run secureapp setFeedKey <path to feed key or - to signify stdin>

Example command to upload the feed file, after downloading it from the portal:

Note: We recommend you do this on a daily basis. You can download the feed file from the

Downloads Portal

.
CODE 
./appdcli run secureapp uploadFeed <path to feed file>