Configuring a Microsoft Azure storage account

Overview

On the Microsoft Azure portal you need to configure a storage account. The Azure Inventory data provider will use this storage account to store inventory results before they are imported into Enterprise Service Management.

Creating and configuring the storage account

1. Go to Storage Accounts from the Microsoft Azure home page and create a new account with default settings (for example, the account is test on the screenshot below). For details on storage accounts, please refer to Create an Azure storage account.
2. Open this storage account and go to Data Storage > Containers.

3. Create a container with a title of your choice.
4. Open this container and go to Shared access tokens.
5. Use this page to generate a SAS token:

• In the Permissions drop-down field, select the following values: Read, Add, Create, Write, Delete, List.
• Specify the start and expiry time  during which the blob SAS is valid.
• Click Generate SAS token and URL.

6. Save the Blob SAS token as you will need it later when configuring the Azure VM Inventory data provider.