Before you begin Ivanti Standalone Sentry installation on Microsoft Azure

Before you install Ivanti Standalone Sentry on Microsoft Azure, ensure the following:

• You have a UEM deployed.

• Port 443 inbound is open.

• You have a Microsoft Azure account.

• You have made a note of the VHD location. You will need this when you are Installing Ivanti Standalone Sentry on Microsoft Azure.

VHD-Location: See the Ivanti Standalone Sentry Release and Upgrade Notes for your release.

• You have downloaded the following json files:

  • the parameter file, which includes information such as the initial azure user, vhd to be used, the storage account. You will update this file during installation.

  • the deployment file with default values required for installation, such as the inbound and outbound rules to allow or disallow incoming and outgoing IP addresses. Do not make any changes to this file.
    

• See the Ivanti Standalone Sentry Release and Upgrade Notes for the location of these files.

• The installation instructions provided use the Microsoft Azure Cloud Shell bash CLI 2.7 and azcopy commands. If you are using a Mac or PC, the Microsoft Azure command line plugin must be downloaded and installed to your Mac or Linux machine.
  

  • Download the azcopy as per the following document: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/common/storage-use-azcopy-v10

  • azcopy copy "https://<sentry.blob.core.windows.net>/<sentrycontainer>/<vhd file>" "<Local Download Location>" --overwrite=prompt --check-md5 FailIfDifferent --from-to=BlobLocal --recursive --trusted-microsoft-suffixes= --log-level=INFO

• Execute the following Azure CLI commands :

• az login -u <[email protected]> -p <password>

• az group create -n "groupname" -l <location>

• az storage account create --resource-group <groupname> --location <location> --sku Standard_LRS --kind Storage --name <storagename>

• az storage container create -n copiedvhds --account-name <storagename>

• az storage account keys list -g <groupname> -n <storagename>

• az copy --blob-type page --source <Sentry VHD File Source Location> --destination <https://storagename.blob.core.windows.net/copiedvhds/sentry-mobileiron.vhd> --dest-key <account keys from previous command>

• az deployment group create --resource-group <groupname> --template-file <path-to-template> --parameters <path-to-parameter>

• "location" - It is the Azure location where the group is created.

• The "Sentry VHD File Source Location" is available in the Ivanti Standalone Sentry Release and Upgrade Notes.
  

•If you are using an installer, an understanding of creating a VM on Microsoft Azure. You will be creating a VM for Ivanti Standalone Sentry in Microsoft Azure using the Azure Resource Manager deployment model using CLI only.

For Microsoft Azure command line interface (CLI) commands, see

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/virtual-machines-command-line-tools/

•Minimum memory and CPU requirements for Ivanti Standalone Sentry:

Table 10.   minimum memory and cpu requirements

Item	Requirement
Configuration size	Medium configuration
Maximum devices	< 8000 devices
Memory	6 GB
Virtual CPUs**	2
Memory reservations	6 GB
Disk	32 GB

The Ivanti Standalone Sentry medium configuration size maps to Standard_D2_v2 VM type offered by Microsoft Azure.

•Site-to-site VPN is enabled between Ivanti EPMM and Microsoft Azure.