Deploying Nodal Agent on Hyper-V

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Deploying Nodal Agent on Hyper-V

The Jadaptive Nodal VPN service requires an agent to be installed in your network. Your end-user’s VPN clients will connect through this endpoint for their VPN sessions.

This article covers deploying the OVA VM image in a Hyper-V environment.

1. Downloading the Agent VM

Whilst logged into your cloud tenant, click the Download button at top right then select Download under Nodal Agent.

On the next screen, choose to download the HyperV file.

The downloaded file will be named something like: nodal-agent-hyperv-<version>.zip.

Unzip the file to get a nodal-agent-<version>.vhd file.

2. Deploying the VM

In Hyper-V Manager, start the New Virtual Machine wizard, give the new VM a name and select its location, click Next.

Select Generation 1 and click Next.

Change the memory to 2048Mb and click Next.

Select the Networking for this VM, click Next again.

Select Use an existing virtual hard disk, browse to the location of the extracted Hyper-V image and select it. Click Next.

Click Finish to complete the creation, then start the new VM.

3. Authorizing the Nodal Agent

On first boot, you are prompted to log in with the username: nodal-agent.

You are now logged in and are presented with the Nodal Agent summary.

If you want to change the IP Address, please refer to this article:

Setting a static IP on the Nodal Agent

As this is the first time you are logging into your Nodal Agent, the tenant registration process should start automatically. If for any reason this does not start, you can manually start the process with the command:

nodal-do auth <tenanthostname> <agentname>

The <tenanthostname> can be just the subdomain that you chose when creating your tenant if you opted for the default top level nodal.network domain. If you chose to use another domain, this needs to be the fully qualified hostname

<agentname> is optional, if you leave this blank a random name will be chosen.

Enter your <tenanthostname> when prompted and press enter.