Deploying Unified Access Gateway Appliance
The Unified Access Gateway INI file is already configured and contains all the required information to automate this deployment.
1. Launch PowerShell
Launch PowerShell by clicking the PowerShell icon from the Taskbar
2. Executing the Deployment Script
As the scripts starts a couple questions will be asked, follow the steps below in order to provide the correct information.
- Enter
cd '.\Desktop\UAG Resources'
to navigate to the directory with the UAG deployment scripts. PressENTER
. - Enter
.\uagdeploy.ps1 .\uag-appliance.ini VMware1! VMware1! false false no
and PressENTER
.- The first VMware1! is the root password for the UAG appliance
- The second VMware1! is the admin password for the REST API management access
- The first false is to NOT skip the validation of signature and certificate
- The second false is to NOT skip SSL verification for the vSphere connection
- The no is to not join the VMware CEIP program
- Enter
A1rW@tch!
for the SSLcert and SSLcertAdmin fields when prompted.
The deployment starts and you can follow the progress on the same window or on your vSphere Web Client, which you left open at the beginning of this module.
NOTE - To avoid password request for the certificate, remove the pfxCerts values and provide a PEM certificate, set the pemCerts and pemPrivKey for the SSLCert and SSLCertAdmin sections of the INI file.
3. Confirm the PowerShell Script Deployment Completes
- Confirm the UAG deployed successfully. The Completed successfully text will be shown in the output.
- Click Close.
After successfully finalized the deployment the script will automatic Power on the VM UAG-2NIC.
The Received IP address presented by the script log is a temporary IP, the final IPs for NIC 1 and NIC2 will be assigned to the UAG appliance during the first start. You can return to the vSphere Web Client to validate that as described on the next step.
NOTE - Deploying the UAG may take a several minutes to complete. Please be patient while the task is fully completed.
4. Validating the deployment
- If you do not see the UAG-2NIC VM under Nested_Datacenter, you may need to click Refresh first.
- Click on UAG-2NIC.
- Click the Summary tab.
- Click on View all 2 IP addresses.
- The IP Addresses should show:
192.168.110.20
172.16.0.20
NOTE - In case the UAG appliance have not finalized the configuration during the first startup, you will receive a error message from vSphere Web Client. If that happen wait for the Appliance to finalized and refresh the whole Chrome Browser.
5. UAG Admin UI Login
- Click the New Tab button to open a new tab
- Browse to
https://uagmgt-int.airwlab.com:9443/admin
or click on the UAG Internal Admin Console bookmark - Enter
admin
for the username - Enter
VMware1!
for the password
NOTE - This password was created for the admin account as part of the PowerShell script deployment. - Click Login
6. Confirm UAG Admin UI Login on the Internal Network
A successful login will redirect you to the following screen, where you can import settings or manually configure the Appliance.
- Click Select under Configure Manually
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