Installing Ivanti Secure Access Client from the Web

For a Web install, you direct users to the Web interface of the Ivanti server. After a successful login, a user is assigned to a role that includes an automatic download and installation of Ivanti Secure Access Client software.

In order to install the Ivanti Secure Access Client from a web browser, you may need to enable certain browser plugins or other technologies on the endpoint device. For example, Java must be enabled on the endpoint device to install Ivanti Secure Access Client from Firefox, and either ActiveX or Java must be enabled to install Ivanti Secure Access Client from Microsoft Edge.

Ivanti Connect Secure and Ivanti Policy Secure introduced a new web-installation option called "Pulse Secure Application Launcher” (PSAL). PSAL leverages “URL handler” functionality by invoking a custom URL in a manner that instructs the web browser to execute a program that launches/installs the appropriate Ivanti Secure Access Client. PSAL was created to address both the restrictions placed on Java on macOS and the deprecation of Java (and Active X) plug-ins in Google Chrome version 45 and the Microsoft Edge browser. To read more about PSAL, see the Ivanti Knowledge Center article “KB40102” (https://forums.ivanti.com/s/searchallcontent).

For a full discussion of this subject, see the “Adaptive Delivery” section of the Ivanti Secure Access Client Supported Platforms Guide.

The default Ivanti Secure Access Client installation settings includes minimal components, which includes the Host Checker component, and a connection to the Ivanti server. If you want a Web install that has customized settings, you can do any of the following:

•Edit the default connection set and add new connections. The default installer uses the default component set which includes the default connection set.

•Create a new connection set and edit the default component set to include the new connection set.

•Edit the role to specify a component set that includes the connections you want for the default installation.

A Ivanti Secure Access Client installation causes a restart of active network connections on a Windows endpoint. When a user initiates a Ivanti Secure Access Client installation through a WAN connection to the Web interface of a Ivanti server, the user might need to log in to their service provider again to reestablish network connectivity. Users need to be aware of this issue before they begin the installation.