After you configured the AWS Secrets Manager requirements using the AWS Administrative Console, you can integrate the AWS Secrets Manager and the Automation 360 Control Room.

Procedure

  1. After you start the Automation 360 installation wizard, select On-premises as the Deployment Option and click Next.
  2. Accept the license agreement and click Next.
  3. Select Custom as the Installation Type Preference and click Next.
  4. Accept the default locations for the destination folders and click Next.
  5. To connect and configure the external key vault integration, select AWS Secret Manager.AWS Secrets Manager integration
  6. In the Region field, enter the AWS region code (for example: us-east1 and click Next.
  7. Accept the default settings from the TLS Configuration dialog box and click Next.
  8. Accept the default settings from the Service Credentials dialog box, and click Next.
  9. From the Database Authentication dialog box, select an option to specify the Secret name from AWS instead of manually entering the secret name secret name the Control Room uses to authenticate to the database.
    AWS database authentication
    1. Click SQL Server authentication (retrieve credential from external key vault), and then enter the Secret Name value.
    2. Click Next to continue and complete the initial installation. The installer will query AWS Secrets Manager for the credential to validate that the secret exists.

After you successfully complete the initial installation, the Automation 360 Control Room can access and retrieve credentials within the AWS Secrets Manager.