Installing the AEN gateway — Anaconda Enterprise 4.4 documentation

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# Installing the AEN gateway

- Setting variables and changing permissions
- Running the AEN gateway installer
- Registering your gateway
- What’s next

The gateway is a reverse proxy that authenticates users and automatically directs them to the proper AEN compute node for their project. Users will not notice this node as it automatically routes them.

Gateway is installed in the `/opt/wakari/wakari-gateway` directory.

## Setting variables and changing permissions

Run:

    export AEN_SERVER=<FQDN HOSTNAME OR IP ADDRESS> # Use the real FQDN
    export AEN_GATEWAY_PORT=8089
    export AEN_GATEWAY=<FQDN HOSTNAME OR IP ADDRESS>  # will be needed shortly
    chmod a+x aen-*.sh                # Set installer to be executable

NOTE: Change <FQDN HOSTNAME OR IP ADDRESS> to the actual fully qualified domain hostname or IP address.

NOTE: You must perform the entire procedure before closing the terminal to ensure the variable export persists. If the terminal is closed before successful installation, export the variables to continue with the installation.

## Running the AEN gateway installer

Run:

    sudo -E ./aen-gateway-4.1.3-Linux-x86_64.sh -w $AEN_SERVER
    <license text>
    ...
    ...

    PREFIX=/opt/wakari/wakari-gateway
    Logging to /tmp/wakari_gateway.log
    ...
    ...
    Checking server name
    Please restart the Gateway after running the following command
    to connect this Gateway to the AEN Server
    ...

## Registering your gateway

The gateway needs to register with the AEN server.

This needs to be authenticated, so the NFI user’s credentials created during the AEN server install must be used.

To write the configuration file `/opt/wakari/wakari-gateway/etc/wakari/wk-gateway-config.json`, run the following as sudo or root:

    sudo /opt/wakari/wakari-gateway/bin/wk-gateway-configure \
    --server http://$AEN_SERVER --host $AEN_GATEWAY \
    --port $AEN_GATEWAY_PORT --name Gateway --protocol http \
    --summary Gateway --username $AEN_SRVC_ACCT \
    --password '<NFI USER PASSWORD>'

NOTE: replace `<NFI USER PASSWORD>` with the password of the NFI user that was generated during server installation.

### Setting permissions

Run:

    sudo chown $AEN_SRVC_ACCT /opt/wakari/wakari-gateway/etc/wakari/wk-gateway-config.json

### Starting the gateway

Run:

    sudo service wakari-gateway start

### Verifying your gateway registration

1. Log into the AEN server using the Chrome or Firefox browser and the AEN_SRVC_ACCT user.

2. In the AEN navigation bar, click Admin to open the Admin Settings page.

3. In the Site Admin menu, select Data Centers:

4. Click your data center:

5. Verify that your data center is registered and the status is `{"status": "ok", "messages": []}`:

## What’s next

Install the AEN compute node(s).