Services

The Services menu allows you to start, stop, and restart services on the Access Gateway appliance, check the status of running services, and regenerate a Secure Socket Layer (SSL) certificate.

Enter 2 at the Management console main menu to enter the Services submenu.

Service commands

NGINX

The NGINX menu allows you to start, stop, and restart the NGINX service, check the status of the service, and regenerate the SSL certificate.

  1. Start: Start the service.
  2. Stop: Stop the service.
  3. Restart: Restart the service.
  4. Check status: This option displays the status of the service, such as whether the service is running or stopped.
  5. Re-generate SSL Certification: Regenerate the SSL certification.
  6. Update SSL certificate: Update the SSL certificate.
  7. Disable TLS 1.1: Disable support for TLS 1.1.
  8. Enable TLS 1.1: Enable support for TLS 1.1.
  9. Manage Ciphers: Manage ciphers.

Start, Stop, Restart

  1. In the NGINX menu, press 1 to start, 2 to stop, or 3 to restart NGINX.
  2. Press Enter to return to the NGINX menu.

Check Status

  1. Press 4 in the NGINX menu to display the NGINX service status.
  2. Press Enter to return to the NGINX menu.

Regenerate SSL Certification

  1. Press 5 in the NGINX menu.
  2. Enter the domain name used to set up the Access Gateway appliance, and press Enter.
  3. Press Enter to return to the NGINX menu.

Update SSL certificate

  1. Press 6 in the NGINX menu to display a list of known certificates. Press Enter to continue.
  2. Enter the domain name of the certificate to be updated. You must have the contents of the replacement certificate file on hand and ready to be pasted into an editor.
  3. Follow the on-screen instructions to insert, modify, and save an updated certificate.
  4. Press Enter to return to the NGINX menu.

Disable or Enable TLS 1.1

  1. Press 7 or 8 to disable or enable TLS 1.1 in the NGINX menu.
  2. Press Enter to return to the NGINX menu.

Manage Ciphers

  1. Press 9 in the NGINX menu. The currently specified cipher set appears.
  2. Enter the new cipher set. Cipher suites are separated by a colon ':'. Use the prefix '!' to exclude cipher suites.
  3. Press Enter to return to the NGINX menu.

Access Gateway Admin

The Access Gateway Admin menu allows you to start, stop, and restart the Access Gateway Admin service, and check its status.

  1. Start: Start Access Gateway Admin.
  2. Stop: Stop Access Gateway Admin.
  3. Restart: Restart Access Gateway Admin.
  4. Check status: Display the Access Gateway Admin status.

NTP

The NTP submenu contains the following commands:

  1. Setup chronyd: Set up one or more NTP servers for Access Gateway to use for time synchronization.
  2. Start chronyd: Start the NTP service.
  3. Stop chronyd: Stop the NTP service.
  4. Restart chronyd: Restart the NTP service.
  5. Check status: Display NTP service status.
  6. Set System Time: Set the system time.

Session Cache

The Session Cache submenu contains the following commands:

  1. Start: Start the session cache service.
  2. Stop: Stop the session cache service.
  3. Restart: Restart the sessions cache service.
  4. Status Session Cache: Display cache service status.
  5. Display Running Statistics: Display cache service status.
  6. Change Memory Usage[...]: Change the memory allocated to the session cache.
    1. Select 6 - Change Memory Usage[...]
    2. Enter one of these values:
      • value: A specific value in megabytes. For example, 1500 sets the memory allocation to 1500 megabytes.
      • -value: All memory less a value. For example, -500 sets the memory allocation to 500 megabytes less than the total memory.
      • value%: A percentage of memory. For example, 30% sets the memory allocation to 30% of total memory.
      • -value%: All memory less a percentage value. For example, -10% sets the memory allocation to 10% less than the total memory.

DNS Resolver

The DNS Resolver submenu contains the following commands:

  1. Start: Start the DNS Resolver.
  2. Stop: Stop the DNS Resolver.
  3. Restart: Restart the DNS Resolver.
  4. Check status: Display DNS Resolver service status.
  5. Reset: Reset the DNS Resolver service.