Installation

Additional Information in the Help Center

You can find additional information about installation, upgrades, and license management for your AccelOps deployment in the Installati on, Upgrades, and Licenses section of the Help Center maintained by AccelOps Support.

The topics in this section are intended to guide you through the basic process of setting up and configuring your AccelOps deployment. This includes downloading and installing the AccelOps OVA image, using your hypervisor virtual machine manager to configure the hardware settings for your AccelOps node, setting up basic configurations on your Supervisor node, and registering your Supervisor and other nodes. Setting up IT infrastructure monitoring, including device discovery, monitoring configuration, setting up business services, is covered in under the section Confi guring Your AccelOps Platform.

What You Need to Know before You Begin Installation What Kind of Deployment Will You Set Up?

Who Will Install and Configure AccelOps?

What Information Do You Need to Get Started? The Basic Installation Process

What You Need to Know before You Begin Installation

What Kind of Deployment Will You Set Up?

Before beginning installation you should have determined the exact deployment configuration you will follow, as described in the topics under Dep loyment Options. Note that many deployment options have particular hardware requirements. For example, if you intend to use an NFS server for a cluster deployment, or if want to use Visual Analytics, you will need to make sure that you have the necessary hardware and network components in place. We strongly recommend that you read through all the installation topics for your deployment configuration before you begin.

Who Will Install and Configure AccelOps?

These topics assume that you have the basic system administration skills required to install AccelOps, and that you are already familiar with the use of hypervisors such as VMware ESX or, if you are setting up a Cloud deployment, that you are already familiar with Cloud environments such as Amazon Web Services.

What Information Do You Need to Get Started?

You will need to have administrator-level permissions on the host where you will download and install AccelOps, and you will also need to have username and password associated with your AccelOps license. If you intend to use NFS storage for event data, you will also need to have set up an NFS server prior to installation.

The Basic Installation Process

The installation process for any AccelOps deployment consists of a few steps:

Import the AccelOps virtual appliance into a hypervisor or Amazon Web Services environment

Edit the virtual appliance hardware settings

Start and configure the virtual appliance from the hypervisor console

Register the virtual appliance

Topics in this section will take you through the specific installation and configuration instructions for the most popular hypervisors and deployment configurations.

System Performance Estimates and Recommendations for Large Scale Deployments

Browser Support and Hardware Requirements

Information Prerequisites for All FortiSIEM Installations

Hypervisor Installations

Installing in Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Determining the Storage Type for EventDB in AWS

Configuring Local Storage in AWS for EventDB

Setting Up Supervisor, Worker and Collector Nodes in AWS

Setting Up AWS Instances

Creating VPC-based Elastic IPs for Supervisor and Worker Nodes in AWS Configuring the Supervisor and Worker Nodes in AWS

Registering the Collector to the Supervisor in AWS

Setting up a Network Bridge for Installing AccelOps in KVM

Importing the Supervisor, Collector, or Worker Image into KVM Configuring Supervisor Hardware Settings in KVM

Importing a Supervisor, Collector, or Worker Image into Microsoft Hyper-V

Setting the Network Time Protocol (NTP) for ESX

Installing a Supervisor, Worker, or Collector Node in ESX

Importing the Supervisor, Collector, or Worker Image into the ESX Server

Editing the Supervisor, Collector, or Worker Hardware Settings

Setting Local Storage for the Supervisor

Troubleshooting Tips for Supervisor Installations

Configuring the Supervisor, Worker, or Collector from the VM Console

ISO Installation

Installing a Collector on Bare Metal Hardware

General Installation

Configuring Worker Settings

Registering the Supervisor

Registering the Worker

Registering the Collector to the Supervisor

Using NFS Storage with AccelOps

Configuring NFS Storage for VMware ESX Server

Using NFS Storage with Amazon Web Services

Setting Up NFS Storage in AWS

Setting Up Snapshots of EBS Volumes that Host EventDB and CMDB in AWS

Moving CMDB to a separate Database Host

FortiSIEM Windows Agent and Agent Manager Install

FortiSIEM Windows Agent Pre-installation Notes

Installing FortiSIEM Windows Agent Manager

Installing FortiSIEM Windows Agent