Installing using the Install Wizard

Important notice

The Install Wizard is only for the Windows installer (.exe file).

Before you begin, please make sure to read the following pages in order to install the necessary requirements for each system.

To limit the required resources, use the ENABLED_MODULES environment variable in the customer.env file to select which modules to install when deploying MetaDefender for Secure Storage, you can follow these steps:

  1. Locate the customer.env file in your MetaDefender for Secure Storage deployment. This file contains environment variables used for customization.
  2. Open the customer.env file in a text editor.
  3. Add the ENABLED_MODULES environment variable to the file. The variable should be in the format ENABLED_MODULES=<module_list>, where <module_list> is a comma-separated list of the modules you want to enable. For example, if you want to enable modules Amazon S3, Google Cloud, and Azure Blob storage units, your customer.env file should include the following line: ENABLED_MODULES=azureblob,amazonsdk,googlecloud
  4. Save the customer.env file.
  5. Proceed with the deployment of MetaDefender for Secure Storage.

How to edit the configuration file

Step by step installation

  1. Run the MetaDefender for Secure Storage installer (.exe file)

Note: The installer needs to be run with administrator permissions
  1. To choose another installation path click Options and then Browse to the desired location. Confirm the new location by clicking OK.
  1. To proceed with the installation, read the License Agreement and check I agree to the license terms and conditions if you accept it.
  1. Click Install.
  2. When the message Do you want to allow this app to make changes to your device? is prompted by Windows User Account Control, please click Yes.
  3. Please wait while the product is being configured. Depending on your network connectivity, this step may take a while.

Note: on Windows Server 2019, this operation may take more than 15 minutes to complete and will ask for a reboot in the middle of the install process. After the reboot, the installer will resume automatically.
  1. Installation completed successfully. Choose Launch in order to access the web user interface.

Next steps

Production deployments should follow the advanced installation guide in order to set up a remote MongoDB database and enable HTTPS.

After that, please follow the setup in the newly opened browser window in order to create a local administrator and complete the installation.

Please see the onboarding page for more details.

Troubleshooting

If the following error occurs, there could be one of the reasons mentioned below:
  • TLS 1.2 is not enabled on the machine
  • There is no internet connection
  • A firewall is blocking connections to some required resources

If the reason is one of the latter two you can follow the steps on this page to install the dependencies without an internet connection.

How to check and set up TLS 1.2

To check if TLS 1.2 is enabled on the machine, you can run the following PowerShell command:

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This command should return a list of items. The value Tls12 should be found on that list if TLS 1.2 is enabled. If not, you can run the following commands to enable it:

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Then restart PowerShell and run the[Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol command again to see if Tls12 appears in the list.

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