Accessing the Pulse Policy Secure Virtual Appliance

The Pulse Policy Secure appliance can be accessed:

•as an administrator

•as an end user

•using SSH console

Accessing the Pulse Policy Secure Virtual Appliance as an Administrator

To access the Pulse Policy Secure Virtual Appliance as an administrator, copy the IP address from the Pulse Management Interface resource.

Use the credentials provided in the provisioning parameters to log in as the administrator. The default PPS admin UI user configured in the azuredeploy.json config file is: user ‘admin’ and password ‘password1234’.

The administrator can configure Active Directory located in the corporate network for user authentication. The Pulse Policy Secure Virtual Appliance administrator can check troubleshooting tools provided in the Pulse Policy Secure admin UI (System->Maintenance->Troubleshooting), to verify whether Pulse Policy Secure is able to reach other cloud resources as well as corporate resources.

Accessing the Pulse Policy Secure Virtual Appliance as an End User

To access the Pulse Policy Secure Virtual Appliance as an end user, copy the Private IP address from Pulse Internal Interface resource.

Accessing the Pulse Policy Secure Virtual Appliance using SSH Console

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

On Linux and Mac OSX

Execute the following command:

ssh -i <rsa-private-key-file> <PPS-Management-Interface-PublicIP> -p 6667

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.