V4 On Premise Setup Guide
- Vrushali
- Barsha Ghosh
- Ryan Seymour
ConnectSecure V4 On-Premise Setup
ConnectSecure's on-Premise VM setup is appealing for many businesses with specific data security, privacy, and compliance needs and priorities.
Topic - Table of Contents
Prerequisites
Thick Provisioning should be used for storage space; otherwise, you may need to manually expand disk space/storage. For help on expanding the disk space, please see the section below:
Asset Count | RAM (GB) | CPU | Disk (GB) |
|---|---|---|---|
1-2500 | 16 | 4 | 100 |
2501-5000 | 32 | 8 | 200 |
5001-7500 | 48 | 12 | 300 |
Network | Access |
Ports Required | 80, 443, 4222, 4505 & 4506 |
207.246.91.196 | ports 8433, 5, 90 & 8422, For pushing the patch update to the appliance |
IP | A static Internal IP assigned to a VM and mapped to a Public IP/External IP |
Ensure that SSH access (Port-5) is enabled to the specific IP address (45.32.217.250) until the sign-up, installation, and replication process is complete.
Installation Methods
Server OS used is Ubuntu 22.04 - No need to download the server OS separately.
VM Install with VMware - OVA file
Download the OVA file from here.
Create a Virtual Machine with the configuration provided under Prerequisites.
Sample VM created screenshot as follows:
Select the VM created, right click and select Export OVF Template.
Uncheck the highlighted check box “Include image files attached to floppy and CD/DVD devices in the OVF package”
Select the source file as consecure-V4-onprem.ova (downloaded earlier).
Verify the OVF template details for selected OVA.
Provide a name to the OVF template
Select the storage to deploy the OVF template. Please ensure the selected storage has a free disk size of 100 GB or more.
Select “Thin Provision” and click on NEXT.
Complete the deployment by clicking on FINISH.
VM will be ready as show in the following screenshot.
VM Install with Azure - VHD
Download the Azure VHD from here.
Login to your https://portal.azure.com/
Browse for All Services and select “Storage Accounts” from the details.
Select to create a storage account as follows.
Select Storage Account details as follows and use Review+create to create it.
Subscription: As required (same has to be used while creating other components)
Resource Group: As required (same has to be used while creating other components)
Storage Account Name: As required (same has to be used while creating other components)
Region: As required (same has to be used while creating other components)
Performance: Standard is suitable for most scenarios.
From Advanced Settings, enable the following Security Settings.
Allow enabling anonymous access on individual containers
Default to Microsoft Entra authorization in the Azure portal
Select the created storage account from the list to create a container under it.
Select Containers as shown and click on +Container to create a new container for the storage account.
Select the Created Container and select to upload the downloaded Azure VHD using the browse for files option and upload it successfully.
Next, Create an Image with following details and use Review+create to create it.
Subscription: As required
Resource Group: As required (Use the same resource group as used for Storage Account)
Name: As required (same has to be used while creating other related components)
Region: As required (Use the same resource group as used for Storage Account)
OS type: Linux
VM Generation: Gen 2
Storage Blob: Select the created Storage Account.
Next, Select to create a Virtual Machine with following details and use Review+create to create it.
Subscription: As required
Resource Group: As required (Use the same resource group as used for Storage Account)
Virtual Machine Name: As required
Image: Select All Images and select the image created earlier.
VM Architecture: x64
Size: Auto selected with be standard
Authentication Type: SSH public key
SSH public key source: Generate new key pair
SSH Key Type: RSA SSH Format
Key pair name: As required
Select inbound ports: SSH (22)
Licensing: As required
Select the created Virtual Machine and verify the Public IP and Internal Static IP assigned to it.
VM Install with HyperV - VHDX
Download the VHDX from here.
Login to your Hyper-V Manager.
Start with New Virtual Machine creation wizard.
Specify Name for the VM.
Specify Generation as Generation 2.
Configure networking by selecting the connection.
Connect Virtual Hard Disk - Please “Use an existing virtual hard disk” option and select the downloaded VDHX.
Once the VM is ready, start the VM.
Select the created Virtual Machine and verify the Internal Static IP assigned to it which has to be mapped to a Public IP.
On Premise Sign up Setup
Browse the Public IP/External IP assigned to the VM, to start with the ConnectSecure signup process.
Signup details to be added by the partner.
Make sure to add a Tenant Name for your organisation does NOT include any special characters.
Once the signup is processed, the setting up of Software and Services start and take around 7 minutes to complete.
Setup Completion confirmation is shown once the configuration is completed.
As a part of configuration, 2 emails are sent to the user to verify email and a Welcome To ConnectSecure V4 email.
Please follow Verify Email to complete User Verification Process.
Setup the password for the user.
Setup 2 Factor Authentication for the user and you are ready to login to your ConnectSecure Portal.
Welcome Email has details of Portal URL, Tenant Name & User Name.
Once the User Verification and User Setup is completed, it will redirect to ConnectSecure Portal Onboarding process.
For Onboarding (One time setup), Select PSA or Non-PSA for Creating a New Company.
Create a New Company with the details as requested.
Get ready to drop an agent in the Created Company network.
Installed agents will report under Agents section..
Further Agent installation could be managed at Company level>Overview>Agents
Start Using ConnectSecure V4
Login URL: Portal.myconnectsecure.com
Tenant name: “mytestdomain” ( Please use your configured tenant name here)
Follow our V4 Documentation here:https://cybercns.atlassian.net/wiki/x/3ABueg
Help
How to grow disk size
For VM with VMWare
Edit VM
Click HDD and select the size in GB to increase to.
Click Thick Provision and Finish.
Using SSH
Login to VM
lsblk (to list the disk details)
sudo growpart /dev/sda 1 (Grow disk size for sda 1)
reboot (reboot the VM)
df -h (Verify the disk size)
To increase specific partition
lsblk (to list the disk details)
resize2fs /dev/sda2 (resize for sda2)
growpart /dev/sda 2 (Grow disk size for sda 2)
reboot (reboot the VM)
df -h (Verify the disk size)
How to assign a Static IP to a VM
Log in to the vCenter Server from the vSphere Client.
Select the host in the inventory.
On the Configure tab, expand Networking.
Select VMkernel adapters.
Select vmk0 Management Network and click the edit icon.
Select IPv4 settings.
Select Use static IPv4 settings.
Enter or change the static IPv4 address settings.
(Optional) Set static IPv6 addresses.
Select IPv6 settings.
Select Static IPv6 addresses.
Click the add icon.
Type the IPv6 address and click OK.
Click OK
Info
Tap to view the Getting Started info; see the link below for additional information.
Need Support?
Contact our support team by sending an email to support@connectsecure.com or by visiting our Partner Portal, where you can create, view, and manage your tickets.
https://cybercns.freshdesk.com/en/support/login