Supported AWS regions:
Sign in to your Amazon portal.
Click EC2.
Click Launch Instance.
Click My AMIs (on the navigation tree located on the left).
Choose an Instance Type based on the following recommendation:
Recommended Instance Type for the Sheriff CSM AMIImage Name | Recommended Instance Type |
---|---|
Sheriff CSM All-in-One | m4.2xlarge (8 cores/30GB ) or c3.4xlarge (16 cores/30GB ) |
Sheriff CSM All-in-One Lite | m4.2xlarge (8 cores/30GB ) or c3.4xlarge (16 cores/30GB ) |
Sheriff CSM Federation Server | m4.2xlarge (8 cores/30GB ) or c3.4xlarge (16 cores/30GB ) |
Sheriff CSM Remote Sensor (Deputy) | m4.xlarge (4 cores/15GB ) |
Sheriff CSM Remote Sensor Lite | m4.xlarge (4 cores/15GB ) |
Sheriff CSM Standard Server | m4.2xlarge (8 cores/30GB ) or c3.4xlarge (16 cores/30GB ) |
Sheriff CSM Standard Sensor | m4.2xlarge (8 cores/30GB ) or c3.4xlarge (16 cores/30GB ) |
Click the square to the left of an instance, and then click Next: Configure Instance Details .
Select Launch as EBS-optimized instance to improve the disk performance.
Click Next: Add Storage.
Click Volume Type and choose "Provisioned IOPS". For optimal performance, set the IOPS value to "20000". See Amazon documentation for more details.
Click Next: Tag Instance.
Click Add Rule to add HTTPS. This protocol allows Internet traffic to reach your Sheriff CSM instance.
Note: You do not need to add this rule if you are configuring a Sheriff CSM Sensor, which does not have a web interface.
(Optional) Click Add Rule to add HTTP. This protocol allows web traffic redirection to work in your Sheriff CSM instance.
Note: You do not need to add this rule if you are configuring a Sheriff CSM Sensor, which does not have a web interface.
Click Review and Launch.
Review your configuration and click Launch.
Select Proceed without a key pair and I acknowledge that I have....
Click the instance launched.
The instance can have the following status checks:
Initializing. The image has not yet been deployed by Amazon.
1/2 checks. The image has been deployed, but it is not accessible. The image is still configuring.
2/2 checks. The image is ready and completely configured.
Open a terminal and enter the following command:
SSH root@<publicDNS>
where
<publicDNS>
refers to the default DNS assigned to Sheriff CSM.
Login to the system.
The default credential is root/sheriff
.