Lab 7: Troubleshooting Unified Access Gateway Configuration
Objective and Tasks
In this lab, you address configuration problems for a UAG appliance:
- Confirm that the UAG Appliances are Registered
- Verify the UAG-HZN-01a Configuration
- Verify the UAG-HZN-02b Configuration
- Review the UAG Logs
- Resolve a UAG Configuration Error
In this task, you confirm that the UAG appliances are registered in the environment
- Login to ControlCenter (Landing Desktop)
- Username:administrator
- password:Pa$$w0rd
- From the ControlCenter server desktop, open Chrome.
- To open the Horizon Connection Server console, select Horizon-01A bookmark.
- Login with the following Credentials:
- Username: Administrator
- Password: Pa$$w0rd
- From the left navigation pane, navigate Settings > Servers.
- Under Servers page, select Gateways tab.
- Verify that the uag-hzn-01a.techseals.co and uag-hzn-01b.techseals.co UAG appliances are registered.
- Repeat the procedure for Horizon-01B.
In this task, you verify the UAG-HZN-01a configuration present in the environment.
- From the ControlCenter server desktop, open Chrome.
- Select the UAG-HZN-01a bookmark.
- Log in using the following credentials:
- Username: admin
- Password: Pa$$w0rd
- Under Configure Manually, click Select.
- Under General Settings, Enable the toggle switch for Edge Service Settings.
- You see a green circle next to Horizon Settings.
- Click the arrow next to Horizon Settings.
- Verify that PCoIP, Blast, and Horizon Destination Server are all green.
- Verify the connections:
- Next to Horizon Settings, click the Gears icon.
- Verify the settings for the Horizon Connection Server URL and the thumbprint
- Verify that the PCoIP External URL is set to 172.16.20.10:4172
- Verify that the Blast External URL is set to https://uag-hzn-01a.techseals.co:8443
- Since you have not made any changes, click Cancel.
- From the ControlCenter server desktop, Navigate to Remote Desktops > Site1 folder.
- Open an RDP connection to the Horizon w11EXT-01a.RDP.
- On the desktop, open the Horizon Client
- To test UAG-HZN-01a, click the + icon to add a server and enter the address https://uag-hzn-01a.techseals.co
- Log in with the following credentials:
- Username: Craig
- Password: Pa$$w0rd
- Double-click W11-INST.
- Your login to W11-INST is successful, verifying that UAG-HZN-01a works.
Note: Please allow 3-5 minutes for the W11-INST to get connected.
The process can take several minutes so continue onto the next step during the login operation.
In this task, you verify the UAG-HZN-01b configuration present in the environment.
- From the ControlCenter server desktop, open Chrome.
- Select the UAG-HZN-01b bookmark.
- Log in using the following credentials:
- Username: admin
- Password: Pa$$w0rd
- Under Configure Manually, click Select.
- Under General Settings, Enable the toggle switch for Edge Service Settings.
- You see a green circle next to Horizon Settings.
- Click the arrow next to Horizon Settings.
- Verify that PCoIP, Blast, and Horizon Destination Server are all green.
- Verify the connections:
- Next to Horizon Settings, click the Gears icon.
- Verify the settings for the Horizon Connection Server URL and the thumbprint
- Verify that the PCoIP External URL is set to 172.16.20.11:4172
- Verify that the Blast External URL is set to https://uag-hzn-01b.techseals.co:8443
- Since you have not made any changes, click Cancel.
- From the ControlCenter server desktop, Navigate to Remote Desktops > Site1 folder.
- Open an RDP connection to the Horizon w11EXT-01a.RDP.
- On the desktop, open the Horizon Client
- To test UAG-HZN-01b, click the + icon to add a server and enter the address https://uag-hzn-01b.techseals.co
- Log in with the following credentials:
- Username: Craig
- Password: Pa$$w0rd
- Double-click W11-INST.
- Connection fails and then the session is disconnected.
- This indicates a missed configuration of UAG-HZN-01b.
The process can take several minutes so continue onto the next step during the login operation.
In this task, you review UAG logs to identify the problem.
- From the ControlCenter server desktop, open Chrome.
- Select the UAG-HZN-01b bookmark.
- Log in using the following credentials:
- Username: admin
- Password: Pa$$w0rd
- Under Configure Manually, click Select.
- Navigate to Support Settings > Log Archive, select the Download icon.
- Navigate to the Downloads folder, right click the UAG folder downloaded and select Extract All.
- Click Extract ALL
- Review the esmanager logs:
- Right click esmanager logs and open with Notepad++.
- Scroll to the bottom of the page and press Ctrl+F.
- Search for a message that includes backend channel is closed.
Important: Before the message appears, you can see the attempted connection to the desktop.
In this task, you change the UAG configuration to resolve the issue identified in the logs.
- From the ControlCenter desktop, open ChromeTo open the Horizon Connection Server console, select Horizon-01B bookmark.
- Login with the following Credentials:
- Username: Administrator
- Password: Pa$$w0rd
- Make the following configuration changes:
- In the left navigation pane, expand Settings.
- Select Server > Connection Servers.
- Select Horizon-01B and click EDIT.
- Verify that the check boxes for PCoIP Secure Gateway and Use Blast Secure Gateway for all Blast connections to machine are enabled.
Important: These settings can cause UAG errors.
- To resolve the UAG problems:
- In the left navigation pane, expand Settings > Servers > Connection Servers.
- Select Horizon-01B & click EDIT.
- Deselect the PCoIP Secure Gateway check box.
- Select the Do not use Blast Secure Gateway check box.
- Click OK.
- From the ControlCenter server desktop, Navigate to Remote Desktops > Site1 folder.
- Open an RDP connection to the Horizon w11EXT-01a.RDP.
- On the desktop, open the Horizon Client
- To test UAG-HZN-01b, Double-click server address https://uag-hzn-01b.techseals.co
- Log in with the following credentials:
- Username: Craig
- Password: Pa$$w0rd
- Double-click W11-INST.
- The connection is successful and UAG-HZN-01b is now working correctly.
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