Accessing the Pulse Connect Secure Virtual Appliance

Accessing the Pulse Connect Secure Virtual Appliance as an Administrator

In the AWS portal, navigate to CloudFormation section. Select the stack where PCS is deployed and then click on the ‘Outputs’ tab. Note down the PCS management, internal and external address from the table as shown in

Use the credentials provided in the provisioning parameters to log in as the administrator in the PCS Admin interface with URL https://<PCS-IP>/admin. The default PCS Admin UI user configured in the CloudFormation config file is: user ‘admin’ and password ‘password1234’.

The administrator can configure Active Directory located in the corporate network for user authentication. The Pulse Connect Secure Virtual Appliance administrator can check troubleshooting tools provided in the Pulse Connect Secure admin UI (System > Maintenance > Troubleshooting), to verify whether Pulse Connect Secure is able to reach other cloud resources as well as corporate resources. For this, AWS network administrator needs to ensure that all other resources have Pulse Connect Secure Internal interface as its default gateway.

Accessing the Pulse Connect Secure Virtual Appliance as an End User

After successfully deploying PCS on AWS, go to the Outputs section and copy the Pulse External Interface details.

Accessing the Pulse Connect Secure Virtual Appliance using SSH Console

To access the Pulse Connect Secure Virtual Appliance using the SSH console, copy the Public IP address from the PCSManagementPublicIP resource.

On Linux and Mac OSX

Execute the following command:

On Windows

1.Launch the Putty terminal emulator.

2.In the Session category:

•Enter the host name or IP address.

•Enter the port number.

•Select the connection type as SSH.

3.Select Connection > SSH > Auth. Click Browse and select the private key file for authentication.