Pulse Policy Secure Provisioning Parameters

Provisioning parameters are those parameters which are required during the deployment of a virtual appliance. Pulse Policy Secure accepts the following parameters as provisioning parameters in the XML format.

<pulse-config>

    <primary-dns><value></primary-dns>

    <secondary-dns><value></secondary-dns>

    <wins-server><value></wins-server>

    <dns-domain><value></dns-domain>

    <admin-username><value></admin-username>

    <admin-password><value></admin-password>

    <cert-common-name><value></cert-common-name>

    <cert-random-text><value></cert-random-text>

    <cert-organisation><value></cert-organisation>

    <config-download-url><value></config-download-url>

    <config-data><value></config-data>

    <auth-code-license><value></auth-code-license>

    <enable-license-server><value></enable-license-server>

    <accept-license-agreement><value></accept-license-agreement >

    <enable-rest><value></enable-rest>

</pulse-config>

The below table depicts the details of the xml file.

#	Parameter Name	Type	Description
1	primary-dns	IP address	Primary DNS for Pulse Policy Secure
2	secondary-dns	IP address	Secondary DNS for Pulse Policy Secure
3	wins-server	IP address	Wins server for Pulse Policy Secure
4	dns-domain	string	DNS domain of Pulse Policy Secure
5	admin-username	string	admin UI user name
6	admin-password	string	admin UI password
7	cert-common-name	string	Common name for the self-signed certificate generation. This certificate is used as the device certificate of Pulse Policy Secure Random text for the self-certificate generation Organization name for the self-signed certificate generation
8	cert-random-text	string
9	cert-organization	string
10	config-download-url	String URL	Http based URL where XML based Pulse Policy Secure configuration can be found. During provisioning, Pulse Policy Secure fetches this file and comes up with preloaded configuration. XML based configuration can be present in another VM in AWS cloud or at corporate network which is accessible for Pulse Policy Secure through site to site VPN between AWS and corporate data center
11	config-data	string	base64 encoded XML based Pulse Policy Secure configuration
12	auth-code-license	string	Authentication code that needs to be obtained from Pulse Secure
13	enable-license-server	string	If set to ‘y’, PPS will be deployed as a License server. If set to ‘n’, PPS will be deployed as a normal server.
14	accept-license-agreement	string	This value is passed to the instance for configuration at the boot time. By default, this value is set to “n”. This value must be set to “y”.
15	enable-rest	string	If set to ‘y’, REST API access for the administrator user is enabled.

In the above list of parameters, primary dns, dns domain, admin username, admin password, cert-random name, cert-random text, cert-organization and accept-license-agreement are mandatory parameters. The other parameters are optional parameters.