You can establish a connection between your Carbon Black Cloud Workload Appliance and the Carbon Black Cloud console by using your generated API key.

Prerequisites

Deploy and configure your Carbon Black Cloud Workload appliance in the vCenter Server. To learn more about how to deploy an appliance in the vCenter Server, see the Carbon Black Cloud Workload Guide.

Procedure

  1. Log in to the vSphere Web Client.
  2. Verify that the appliance's VM is on, open the VM console, and note the appliance IP address.
  3. Open a Web browser, and navigate to the appliance's interface at https:// {appliance-IP-address}.
  4. Navigate to the Appliance > Registration tab.
  5. Log in to the appliance using your administrator credentials.
  6. In the Carbon Black Cloud section, click Edit, and enter the following information:
    1. The URL of the console as per your hosted Carbon Black Cloud location.
    2. An unique name for the appliance in your Carbon Black Cloud organization.
    3. Paste the API ID and API secret key generated earlier from the console along with the Org key.
  7. To apply the changes, click Save.

Results

A green check mark confirms the connection between your appliance and the Carbon Black Cloud console.

What to do next

You verify the connection between your appliance and the Carbon Black Cloud console is established successfully as follows.
  • On the API Keys tab, go to the appliance and click the appliance name with a link. You view appliance health and connection status.
  • Go to the Inventory > Workloads > Not Enabled page. You view your workloads inventory or virtual machine (VM) data.