This procedure has been tested in the environment specified below:
- Deep Security Manager 11.0
- Deep Security Agent 11.0.0-326 for Windows x86_64
- AWS VPC: Public subnet and Private subnet
- Database: AWS RDS, MS SQL 2016 Standard Edition
- Browser: Internet Explorer (recommended)
Do the following:
- Open the Amazon console and select RDS.
- On the dashboard, click Create Database.
- Select Microsoft SQL server and tick SQL Server Standard Edition.
- Choose Dev/Test, since this procedure is for proof of concept (POC) only.
- Under DB engine version, select SQL Server 2016. For SQL Server 2017, it only supports version 11.2 and above.
- Under DB instance class, select db.m4.large for POC.
- Enter the basic database settings (instance identifier, username, and password) and click Next.
- Make sure to place the database in your own AWS VPC.
- Follow the default configuration settings.
- Click Create Database.
A notification stating "Your DB instance is being created." will appear.
After a few minutes, your database has been completed.
- Connect to SQL Server and create database "dsm" for Deep Security Manager.
- Install Deep Security Manager and set up database related task.
- Verify that you can log in to Deep Security Manager.
Deep Security Manager is now connected to AWS RDS.