Installing Standalone Sentry on Microsoft Azure

The following instructions are specific to an installation using Microsoft Azure Cloud Shell bash commands. If you are working from a Mac, Linux, or Windows machine see the Microsoft Azure documentation for creating a VM Instance from a VHD using Azure CLI.

The .vhd filenames are examples. For the correct .vhd filename for this release, see the Standalone Sentry release notes for this release.

Before you begin 

1. See Before you begin Standalone Sentry installation on Microsoft Azure.
2. Modify the json parameter file:

Change the value of "adminPassword".

Change the value of "storageAccountName". You will use this value in the installation steps.

Example: daredevil78

Change the value of "vhdName". You will use this value in the installation steps.

Example: sentryblobV920.vhd

3. For installation using Cloud Shell, upload the template file and parameters file as described in:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-resource-manager/resource-group-template-deploy-cli#deploy-template-from-cloud-shell

Procedure 

 

Task

Enter Azure CLI command

1.

Login

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

2.

Create resource group

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

Example:

az group create -n "daredevil" -l "westus"

3.

Create storage account

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

Example:

az storage account create --resource-group daredevil --location "westus" --sku Standard_LRS --kind Storage --name daredevil78

4.  

Create container inside storage account

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

Example:

az storage container create —n copiedvhds --account-name daredevil78

5.

List the storage account keys

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

Example:

az storage account keys list -g daredevil -n daredevil78

6.

Copy vhd to

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>

7.

Installing the vhd

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

Example

az deployment group create --resource-group daredevil --template-file <clouddrive/templates/singleInstanceVMv2_d.json> --parameters <clouddrive/templates/singleInstanceVM.parametersV2d.json>

Next steps 

Go to Setting the initial configuration of Standalone Sentry installed on Microsoft Azure.