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Prequisites

To use nevisAdmin 4 in your environment, the software has to be installed first.

It is recommended starting with one of these variants:

Installation with Azure OneClick​

  • Make sure you have a Nevis Portal account. More information on how to create and manage your Nevis Portal account can be found here.
  • Make sure you have access to an Azure Subscription with the following permissions:
    • User Access Administrator or higher
    • Contributor or higher
  1. Log in to your Azure subscription.
  2. Access Nevis Portal, select the "Deploy to Azure" button.
  3. Select your Azure subscription.
  4. Create a new resource group and name it.
  5. Select the region you wish to install to.
  6. Create a Domain name, and passwords for nevisAdmin4 and Grafana.
  7. Select "review + create" or review/change the default settings.
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Observe that administration of the deployment COULD be pointed to an Azure SAML Identity Provider configuration which allows Azure-defined authentication mechanisms and policies to be used for authentication via a federated SAML connection. This would be instead of using local username/password credentials within the Nevis Identity Suite application.

  1. Note the summary and push "Create".

nevisAppliance installation with 2 VMs:​

  • VM1 with an admin4 image, version 2019-02-20 or later. See Software Installation for image and nevisAdmin 4 installation instructions.
  • VM2 with the extended image, version 2019-02-20 or later. This image contains nevisProxy, nevisAuth, nevisIDM, and other components. See Software installation in the nevisAppliance documentation for image installation instructions.
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We recommend using remote VMs instead of installing them on the same laptop. The reason is that it can be hard to configure the required networking/routing settings in VirtualBox or VMWare Workstation.

RPM-based installation, all on the same VM:​

  • Start with a basic RHEL 7 VM installation.
  • See "Software Installation" for RPM and nevisAdmin 4 installation instructions.
  • Install the RPM for nevisProxy 3.14.0.1 or higher.

For the tutorial below, it is assumed that:

  • nevisAdmin 4 is up and running, and reachable via http://nevisadmin4:9080/nevisadmin/.

  • nevisProxy, or the nevisAppliance extended image, is installed

    • The host is accessible via SSH at nevisproxy.
    • After completing the tasks below, it will host a website at https://nevis.

Naming conventions​

Depending on your environment, adapt the host names "nevisadmin4", "nevisproxy" and "nevis" as follows:

  • nevisAppliance installation:

    • "nevisadmin4": Hostname of VM1.
    • "nevisproxy": Hostname of VM2.
    • "nevis": Hostname of VM2.
      • Or: Add "nevis" to /etc/hosts on VM2 and on the device where the browser runs.

  • RPM-based installation, all on the same VM:

    • "nevisadmin4": Hostname of the VM.
    • "nevisproxy": Hostname of the VM.
    • "nevis": Hostname of the VM.
      • Or: Add "nevis" to /etc/hosts on the VM and on the device where the browser runs.