EV Observe - Deploy a Box In Microsoft Azure
Microsoft Azure is Microsoft's cloud computing platform for creating and hosting virtual machines.
You can deploy a Box as a virtual machine in Microsoft Azure using a VHD image.
Caution
- Select the most recent VHD image of the virtual machine on the sFTP server, without exceeding your platform's version.
Procedure: How to deploy a Box in Microsoft Azure
Step 1: Create the VHD image of the virtual machine in Microsoft Azure
1. Download the VHD image of the virtual machine available on the sFTP site and save it in the VSM-VSB folder.
Note: Contact the EasyVista Support team to obtain the relevant login information.
2. Log in to the Azure portal using your Azure account.
3. Import the file to Microsoft Azure.
- Select Blob > Storage account to access Azure Blob Storage.
- Click Upload and select the VHD file.
- Click Upload.
The image will be uploaded to the container.
4. Create the VHD image of the virtual machine.
- Open the Image menu and click Add.
- Complete the information required.
- Specify the location of the VHD file uploaded to the container.
- Click Create.
Step 2: Create the virtual machine using the VHD image
1. Click Virtual Machine and click + Add.
2. Select the image of the virtual machine.
3. Complete the information required in the different tabs.
Basics tab
- The public IP address is created and associated automatically with the VM.
- You will enter the user password at a later time.
Disk options tab
Networking tab
Management tab
Advanced and Tags tabs
Keep the default values.
4. Click Create.
The new virtual machine will be created.
Step 3: Finalize the virtual machine configuration for opening the TCP port
1. Run the install script on the Box.
See the procedure from step 2.c: Download the configuration of the Box
2. Run an snmp ping to check access to the Box.
3. Perform the following actions if an error message appears (timeout) indicating that the snmp agent is not responding.
- Check that the Box and the virtual machine are located on the same resource group/subnet in the Basics tab.
- Check the connection between virtual networks (Global VNet Peering) if the virtual networks are different.
Step 4: Set up monitoring for the new virtual machine
See the procedure