Installation on AWS

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Last updated: Mar 25, 2020
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The following installation instructions are for the installation of an appliance in your AWS account. You must have appropriate permissions to be able to deploy a new virtual machine in order to complete the install. Please contact your AWS contact/administrator for assistance with AWS permissions.

Appliance Download

The appliance image is made available in the AWS Market for installation of an appliance in your AWS account. Details are provided in the appliance install section on how to find the appropriate image.

Appliance Install

To install the virtual appliance you will need to log into your AWS console for the account where you want to deploy the appliance. You will also need to ensure that the account has the required permissions to be able to create new VMs.

  • Ensure you are in the correct zone (you must deploy the appliance in the same zone as the targets you need to scan. If you have targets in several zones, you will need multiple appliances)

  • Navigate to All Services > Compute > EC2.

  • Click on the "Launch Instance" button.

  • Search for “iquate” in the list of community AMIs. ("AMI stands for Amazon Machine Instance")

  • Once you’ve located the correct AMI click “Select” corresponding to the AMI.

  • Choose an instance type. iQuate recommend that you specify a minimum of 2 CPU cores and 4GB Ram for scanning. (This corresponds to the t2.medium instance type.)

  • Select "Next: Configure Instance"

  • In this section you configure the Network settings.
    Select the appropriate Network and Subnet and set the Network Interfaces:
    Note: Direct access to the Appliance Management UI is required for Registration and Licensing the appliance.

To access the Appliance Management UI you can either:

  • Auto-assign a Public IP (set to enable above) for direct access via a public IP address.

  • Access via the auto assigned Private IP. This requires access to the private IP from your network (e.g. via VPN to the cloud instance).

Please consult your AWS team for confirmation on Security Group settings.

  • Select “Review and Launch”

  • Select “Launch”

  • Select the key pair to use (new or existing). If new selected please make sure to save the PEM file which will be required to connect to the console of the appliance.

  • Select “Launch instance”

  • Once the appliance has booted for the first time, you can determine the public IP address from AWS. You need this IP address to log in to the server. You also need to give this IP address to iQuate support in order have your appliance whitelisted so that it can communicate to the iQCloud servers.

You are now ready to configure your iQCloud Virtual Appliance. Please proceed to Appliance Configuration.