Before you begin
The procedures below assume that you do not have the required resource group,
storage account, storage container, and network security group configured. If you
already have these parameters configured, you can proceed to step 6 after you log into
your Azure account.
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Open a terminal application on your client and log into to your Azure
account.
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Open https://aka.ms/devicelogin in a web browser and enter the code to
authenticate, and then return to the command-line interface.
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Create a resource group.
az group create --name <name> --location <location>
For example, create a new resource group in the West US region.
az group create --name exampleRG --location westus
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Create a storage account.
az storage account create --resource-group <resource group name> --name <storage account name>
For example:
az storage account create --resource-group exampleRG --name exampleSA
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View the storage account key. The value for key1 is required
for step 5.
az storage account keys list --resource-group <resource group name> --account-name <storage account name>
For example:
az storage account keys list --resource-group exampleRG --account-name exampleSA
Output similar to the following appears:
[
{
"keyName": "key1",
"permissions": "Full",
"value": "CORuU8mTcxLxq0bbszhZ4RKTB93CqLpjZdAhCrNJugAorAyvJjhGmBSedjYPmnzXPikSRigd
5T5/YGYBoIzxNg=="
},
{ "keyName": "key2",
"permissions": "Full",
"value": "DOlda4+6U3Cf5TUAng8/GKotfX1HHJuc3yljAlU+aktRAf4/KwVQUuAUnhdrw2yg5Pba5FpZn6oZYvROncnT8Q=="
}
]
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Set default Azure storage account environment variables. You can have multiple
storage accounts in your Azure subscription. To select one account to apply to
all subsequent storage commands, set these environment variables. If you do not
set environment variables you will always have to specify
--account-name and --account-key in the
commands in the rest of this procedure.
export AZURE_STORAGE_ACCOUNT=<storage account name>
export AZURE_STORAGE_KEY=<key1>
Where <key1> is the storage account key value that
appears in step 5.
For example:
export AZURE_STORAGE_ACCOUNT=exampleSA
export AZURE_STORAGE_KEY=CORuU8mTcxLxq0bbszhZ4RKTB93CqLpjZdAhCrNJugAor
AyvJjhGmBSedjYPmnzXPikSRigd5T5/YGYBoIzxNg==
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Create a storage container.
az storage container create --name <storage container name>
For example:
az storage container create --name exampleSC
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Upload the Discover appliance VHD file to the blob storage.
az storage blob upload --container-name <container> --type page --name <blob name> --file <path/to/file> --validate-content
For example:
az storage blob upload --container-name exampleSC --type page
--name command_appliance.vhd --file /Users/admin/Downloads/extrahop-eca-azure-7.2.0.5000.vhd --validate-content
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Retrieve the blob URI. You will need the URI when you create the managed disk
in the next step.
az storage blob url --container-name <storage container name> --name <blob name>
For example:
az storage blob url --container-name exampleSC --name command_appliance.vhd
Output similar to the following example appears:
https://exampleSA.blob.core.windows.net/exampleSC/command_appliance.vhd
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Create a managed disk, sourcing the Discover VHD file.
az disk create --resource-group <resource group name> --location <Azure region>
--name <disk name> --sku <Azure sku> --source <blob uri> --size-gb <size gb>
Where sku specifies the type of disk and desired
replication pattern. Managed disks support only Standard_LRS and
Premium_LRS. Premium_LRS has a maximum disk size of 1 TB and Standard_LRS
has a maximum disk size of 4TB.
For
example:
az disk create --resource-group exampleRG --location westus
--name exampleDisk --sku Standard_LRS --source https://exampleSA.blob.core.windows.net/exampleSC/discover_appliance.vhd
--size-gb 60
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Create the VM and attach the managed disk. This command creates the Discover
appliance VM with a default network security group and dynamic public IP
address.
az vm create --resource-group <resource group name> --location <Azure region>
--name <vm name> --os-type linux --attach-os-disk <disk name> --size <azure machine size>
For example:
az vm create --resource-group exampleRG --location westus --name exampleVM --os-type linux
--attach-os-disk exampleDisk --size Standard_D2_v3
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Log into the Azure portal, https://portal.azure.com, and configure the
networking rules for the appliance. The network security group must have the
following rules configured:
Table 1. Inbound Port Rules
Name |
Port |
Protocol |
HTTPS |
443 |
TCP |
SSH |
22 |
TCP |
Table 2. Outbound Port Rules
Name |
Port |
Protocol |
HTTPS |
443 |
TCP |
SSH |
22 |
TCP |
Next steps
Open a web browser and log into the Web UI on the Command appliance through the
configured public IP address. The default login name is
setup and the
password is
default.
Complete the following recommended
procedures:
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