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Deploying a Conferencing Node in Azure

After deploying the Management Node you can deploy one or more Conferencing Nodes in Azure to provide conferencing capacity.

To deploy a Conferencing Node in Azure:

  1. Create a VM instance using the prepared Conferencing Node disk image. For more information on this, see:

  2. After the instance has booted, perform a configuration-only deployment on the Management Node to inform it of the new Conferencing Node:

    1. Log in to the Pexip Infinity Administrator interface on the Management Node.
    2. Go to Platform configuration > Conferencing Nodes.
    3. Select Add Conferencing Node.
    4. For deployment type, choose Generic (configuration-only).

    5. Enter the details of the new Conferencing Node, including:

      IPv4 address

      Enter the Private IP address that you assigned to the VM instance (the ipAddress ARM template parameter).
      Network mask

      Ensure that the mask matches the one defined for the subnet selected for the instance (the networkSubnetName ARM template parameter). For example a subnet with a /20 prefix size has a network mask of 255.255.240.0.
      Gateway IP address The gateway address is the first usable address in the subnet selected for the instance (e.g. 172.31.0.1 for a 172.31.0.0/20 subnet).
    6. Select Finish.

    7. Select Download Conferencing Node Configuration and save the XML configuration file.

      A zip file with the name pexip-<hostname>.<domain>.xml will be downloaded.

  3. You must now upload the XML configuration file to the new Conferencing Node:

    1. Browse to https://<conferencing-node-private-ip>:8443/ and use the form provided to upload the XML configuration file to the Conferencing Node VM.

      1. Select Choose File and select the XML configuration file.
      2. Select Upload.

    2. The Conferencing Node will apply the configuration and then reboot. When it has rebooted, it will connect to the Management Node.

      You can close the browser window used to upload the file.

  4. Configure the Conferencing Node's static NAT address, if you have a assigned a public IP address to the instance:

    1. Log in to the Pexip Infinity Administrator interface on the Management Node.
    2. Go to Platform configuration > Conferencing Nodes) and select the Conferencing Node.
    3. Configure the Static NAT address as the instance's public IP address (the public address dynamically allocated by Azure).

After deploying a new Conferencing Node, it takes approximately 5 minutes before the node is available for conference hosting and for its status to be updated on the Management Node. (Until it is available, the Management Node will report the status of the Conferencing Node as having a last contacted and last updated date of "Never".)

To look at a detailed worked example of the steps required to set up your Microsoft Azure environment and deploy Pexip Infinity, see http://www.graham-walsh.com/2016/05/deploying-pexip-azure-part-one/.

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