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Forum for HA and Autoscaling UTM deployments @ AWS?

I feel like it would be beneficial to have a separate sub-forum specifically for discussing UTM deployments in the AWS environment.  Particularly for those of us working on getting the HA and/or Autoscaling implementations to work properly.  While the webpage here: www.sophos.com/aws seems to suggest that AWS integration is a widely used and perfectly tuned feature of the UTM, those of us who have been tinkering around with it know that Sophos still has a ways to go in ramping up their own internal expertise and supporting documentation for this use-case.    All the more reason for easy channels for collaboration among the community.

At the very least, I'd love to hear from anyone else out there who's currently working with the HA implementation.  I'm alternately impressed and frustrated with it thus far :)  but I think it could be a truly amazing product with a bit more fine tuning-- and I think strong community involvement is going to be the driving force to make that happen.  



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  • hi, any update on this ? im interested in this feature on AWS.

     

    thanks

    P.

  • I've been trying this for few weeks as well.  

     

    Apparently, the firmware upgrade within UTM does not do anything for HA/Autoscaling.  It's basically UTM software patch(eg. Windows security patch vs Windows Service Pack).  What has to happen is that you have to download entirely new AMI version(9.4x) from AWS marketplace and reconfigure the new instance from scratch.  or use backup to reload your configurations.  Which it kind of sucks because, it requires more work than just simple upgrade.  

     

    Sophos is really behind on their contents on this matter.  Their template is pointing to the wrong AMI version(9.3x) so you have to manually change that first and their instructions is wrong as well.  

  • Thanks. I tried to reproduce your problem but for me everything works.

     

    The update path you went through looks valid.

     

    Did you do any modification to the machine like doing file manipulation in bash or manual patching?

     

  • Good news:

    We have identified the problem (basically there is no valid update path for the conversion feature with pretty old versions as yours).

    We are working on a fix and will release it with 9.408.

  • Good news:

    We have identified the problem (basically there is no valid upgrade path for the conversion feature with pretty old install versions as yours).

    We fixed this and it will be released with 9.408.

    So all you will have to do, as soon as 9.408 is release, is to upgrade and the conversion feature should work as intended for you.

    Thanks for finding and reporting this issue.

  • great... nothing like being "punished" again for being an early adopter of the UTM @ AWS :(  

    Glad to hear there's finally a fix coming though.  Better late than never I suppose.

  • I just upgraded to version Firmware version: 9.408-4  Pattern version:112573

         
     
         
      There is currently no migration path available for your version. A migration path will likely be made available soon. Try again in a few days

     

    I have a single AWS Sophos UTM installed in one VPC the above error is what I get when trying to click

     

     

     

     

    Thank You

     

    Vitale Mazo

     

     

    Vitale Mazo | Senior Systems Engineer
    Novus Partners Inc | 200 Park Avenue, 27th Floor  | New York, NY 10166
    212.586.3030 Ext. 1093 | Cell: 718-790-1150 | Vmazo@novus.com

  • Unfortunately our new AMIs and templates are not published by Amazon yet.

     

    But this is in progress and should be finished in the next days.

     

    I will dig for some a release date with our product management.

     

    Apologizes for the confusion, with the release of this feature.

  • Sebastian, Thanks for the update,

     

    Please advise are you saying the current AMI i'm using will have to be shutdown and a new AMI will have to be lunched that will support the Auto HA warm setup feature? If that is the case How soon are the New AMI's going to be released this is critical because my company in the next two weeks wants to finalize the AWS firewall purchase.

     

    I would love to use Sophos But I cant without proper "Warm" HA fail-over. Can you give us all on this Blog a better time line and eta ?

     

     

     

     

     

    Thank You

     

    Vitale Mazo

     

     

    Vitale Mazo | Senior Systems Engineer
    Novus Partners Inc | 200 Park Avenue, 27th Floor  | New York, NY 10166
    212.586.3030 Ext. 1093 | Cell: 718-790-1150 | Vmazo@novus.com

  • Anyupdate on the timeline for the New AWS Sophos utm  AMI I and I think the rest of the customers that need HA would like to see a date of the next AWS EC2 AMI availability and time line, I have production items I cant move into aws because my Firewall is not in an HA mode and I cant convert it. Really need time line thank you

     

     

     

     

    Thank You

     

    Vitale Mazo

     

     

    Vitale Mazo | Senior Systems Engineer
    Novus Partners Inc | 200 Park Avenue, 27th Floor  | New York, NY 10166
    212.586.3030 Ext. 1093 | Cell: 718-790-1150 | Vmazo@novus.com

  • Hi Vitale.

    We released the AMIs and the template today :)

    So if you have a 9.408 running, or update to 9.408, you should now be able to start the conversion process.

    Any feedback is highly appreciated.

    Please let us know how it works for you.

    BTW, if you want to have a look on the templates, see the utm/conversion subfolder of our github:

    https://github.com/sophos-iaas/aws-cf-templates

  • Thank you for the update I'm running the latest AMI from amazon market place see screen shot below the version it says was  Updated: 11/17/16 but when I run the migration wizard it says its not able to migrate please wait a few days.

     

     

     

     

     

    Thank You

     

    Vitale Mazo

     

     

    Vitale Mazo | Senior Systems Engineer
    Novus Partners Inc | 200 Park Avenue, 27th Floor  | New York, NY 10166
    212.586.3030 Ext. 1093 | Cell: 718-790-1150 | Vmazo@novus.com

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