Verify readiness for installation on Microsoft Azure

Use these steps to configure third-party products for the Control Room installation.

1. Ensure the installation environment meets the data center requirements and collect the necessary information about the following components:

   • Load balancer (basic or standard) or Application Gateway- IP address

   • Ensure that Microsoft Azure supports WebSocket in Transport Layer.
   • Ensure that Microsoft Azure supports WebSocket at the Application level using the Application Gateway.

   • Microsoft SQL Server or PostgreSQL Server - port credentials

   • Microsoft Azure SQL database - Virtual core (vCore) provisioning model
     Recommendation: We recommend the vCore model rather than the DTU model. The vCore-based provisioning model works best with our installation environment, so use the model even for the common workload. The DTU-based provisioning model might lead to the performance issues.

   • SMB file share - address credentials

   • Subversion server (optional) - port credentials

   • Enterprise identity management system (optional)

     If you have Active Directory (AD) - AD server domain credentials

   • SMTP- host port HTTP/S ports for TLS (optional)

   • Control Room servers- Have Windows credential manager installed

   See Supported data center component versions on Microsoft Azure.
2. Configure the Network Security Group as per the recommended security policies for Inbound Port rules:

   Data center object	Port	Protocol
   Control Room	80, 443	Any
   Azure Active Directory	53, 389	Any
   LDAP	3268, 3269	Any
   email SMTP	587	Any
   SSH	22	Any
   RDP	3389	TCP

3. Configure the AD server.
   Ensure all users are part of the AD domain and the AD server is setup in IaaS mode for Azure cluster environment installations. To add user, navigate to Active Directory Users and Computers > <domain> > Users and add the necessary user.
   To configure the AD server on Azure with IDaaS, refer to the Microsoft Azure documentation.
4. Ensure the Control Room servers in the cluster can ping each other.
   1. If the ping is not successful:
      • Enable the following below file and printer sharing firewall rule:

        File and Printer Sharing (Echo Request - ICMPv4-In) File and Printer Sharing All Yes Allow No Any Any Any ICMPv4

      • Ping the Control Room after enabling the firewall rule change.