diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 19dbb7d..5004064 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,4 +1,7 @@
 # Description
-Configures and sets up the MON api. Includes attributes for log backups, ossec file watching and ossec rules.
+Configures and sets up the Monasca api. Includes attributes for log backups, ossec file watching and ossec rules.
 Also included is an icinga check for the service health check.
 
+Using Vertica
+------------
+If Vertica is used as the database for Monasca, the Vertica JDBC jar that matches the Vertica version must be placed in /opt/mon/vertica. The jar from Vertica will be named like vertica-jdbc-7.0.1-0.jar and must be renamed to vertica_jdbc.jar when placed in /opt/mon/vertica. You can find the Vertica JDBC jar in /opt/vertica/java on a system with the Vertica database installed. This cookbook will copy the Vertica JDBC Jar from /vagrant and place it in /opt/mon/vertica if run using Chef Solo.
diff --git a/metadata.rb b/metadata.rb
index 8420380..8a8df23 100644
--- a/metadata.rb
+++ b/metadata.rb
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 # encoding: UTF-8#
 #
 name             'mon_api'
-maintainer       'MON Team'
-maintainer_email 'hpcs-mon-som@hp.com'
+maintainer       'Monasca Team'
+maintainer_email 'monasca@lists.launchpad.net'
 license          'All rights reserved'
 description      'Installs/Configures mon_api'
 long_description IO.read(File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), 'README.md'))
-version          '0.0.12'
+version          '0.0.13'
diff --git a/recipes/default.rb b/recipes/default.rb
index 89f6abf..4466d7d 100644
--- a/recipes/default.rb
+++ b/recipes/default.rb
@@ -34,3 +34,37 @@ template '/etc/mon/mon-api-config.yml' do
   )
   notifies :restart, 'service[mon-api]'
 end
+
+if setting['database-configuration']['database-type'] == 'vertica'
+
+  # Create the directory for the vertica JDBC jar
+  directory '/opt/mon/vertica' do
+    recursive true
+    owner 'root'
+    group 'root'
+    mode 0755
+    action :create
+  end
+
+  # Copy the vertica jdbc jar from /vagrant
+  bash 'vertica_jdbc.jar' do
+    action :run
+    code <<-EOL
+    DEST=/opt/mon/vertica/vertica_jdbc.jar
+    if [ ! -s ${DEST} ]; then
+       SRC=`ls /vagrant/vertica-jdbc-*.jar`
+       if [ $? != 0 ]; then
+          echo 'You must place a Vertica JDBC jar in the directory where you do the "vagrant up"' 1>&2
+          exit 1
+       fi
+       cp "$SRC" $DEST
+       RC=$?
+       if [ $RC != 0 ]; then
+          exit $RC
+       fi
+       chown root:root $DEST
+       chmod 0555 $DEST
+    fi
+    EOL
+  end
+end