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Guardian
Installation Guide
Information and resources on how to install Guardian, and the different options and settings that are available.
Virtual installation
Cloud deployment
AWS deployment
If your organization uses Amazon Web Services (AWS) to host applications, or the data for the assets that you want to monitor, you can deploy your sensors in AWS.

Guardian
- Introduction
  An overview of Guardian.
- Installation Guide
  Information and resources on how to install Guardian, and the different options and settings that are available.
  - Introduction
  - Physical installation
  - Virtual installation
    - Virtual installation
      Before you install a virtual machine (VM), you should make sure that you are familiar with the minimum requirements, and the supported formats and software that you can use with the Nozomi Networks software products.
    - Virtual machine sizing
      A description of the virtual machine (VM) sizing requirements for Nozomi Networks sensors.
    - Guardian sizing recommendations
      The following table gives recommended sizes for instances running the Guardian.
    - Check the RAM of a virtual machine
      The amount of random-access memory (RAM) from the hypervisor might not correspond with the actual amount seen from within the virtual machine (VM). Therefore, it is important to confirm that your VM has sufficient RAM to support your configuration.
    - Install a virtual machine
      Do this procedure to install a virtual machine (VM).
    - Expand a disk on a virtual machine
      The monitoring scope of your sensor will dictate the size requirements of your virtual hard drive. Do this procedure to adjust the size of the virtual hard drive.
    - Add a secondary disk to a virtual machine
      If the main disk is not large enough when it is first imported, you can do this procedure to add a larger virtual data disk to the virtual machine (VM).
    - Add a monitoring interface to the virtual machine
      By default, the virtual machine (VM) has one management network interface and one monitoring interface. Depending on deployment needs, it might be useful to add more monitoring interfaces to the sensor.
    - Cloud deployment
      - AWS deployment
        If your organization uses Amazon Web Services (AWS) to host applications, or the data for the assets that you want to monitor, you can deploy your sensors in AWS.
  - Container installation
  - Basic configuration
  - Additional settings
  - Compatibility Reference
  - Federal Information Processing Standards
- Administrator Guide
  Information and resources about the Administration section of Guardian, and the tasks that you can do in this part of the software.
- User Guide
  Information and resources about the main features of Guardian, and the tasks that you can do from the user interface (UI).
- Maintenance Guide
  Information about the maintenance tasks of Guardian, to help you administer and maintain the solution in a production environment.
- Print format documentation
  A list of all the print-format documentation that is available for Guardian.

AWS deployment

If your organization uses Amazon Web Services (AWS) to host applications, or the data for the assets that you want to monitor, you can deploy your sensors in AWS.

Before you can deploy with Amazon Web Services (AWS), you must open a support case in the Nozomi Networks Support Portal to request access to the Amazon Machine Image (AMI). For this, you will need to know the:

Organization’s AWS account identifier (ID)
AWS region where you intend to deploy the AMI

To find your AWS ID, refer to Amazon's documentation on AWS identifiers. Upon receipt, we will grant access to the AMI.