In this section, we will describe how to deploy and setup a working instance of the Publisher. If you are deploying a publisher from an OVA template, make sure your VM ESXi version is 6.5 or newer.

1. Deploy the  Publisher OVA (supplied by Chronicle SOAR) so it is accessible by remote agents and your Chronicle SOAR instance (via web).
2. Use your credentials to login to the machine (Ask your customer service rep for credentials).
3. Validate that Siemplify Publisher is running by executing the following command:
   supervisorctl status siemplify_publisher
4. If not, start Siemplify Publisher by executing the command:
   supervisorctl start siemplify_publisher
5. Adjust the time of the Publisher server with the timedatectl command (to match the time of the Siemplify server)

Continue to Configure Publisher.