Oracle VirtualBox (OVB) deployment tasks
Okta Access Gateway only supports using Oracle VirtualBox for development and test use. Okta doesn't support deploying Access Gateway to Oracle VirtualBox for production use.
Oracle VirtualBox deployment tasks
Task |
Description |
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Download the latest OVA image | Download current version of the Access Gateway OVA. |
Deploy OVA to Oracle VirtualBox | Import the downloaded OVA into Oracle VirtualBox. |
Post deployment tasks
Task |
Description |
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Set Access Gateway instance hostname | Set a hostname for Access Gateway. |
Optional. Set Access Gateway instance IP address | Configure a fixed IP address for Access Gateway. |
Optional. Set Access Gateway DNS Servers | Configure Access Gateway to use a split DNS process where multiple DNS servers are used. |
Optional. Set Access Gateway proxy server | Configure Access Gateway to use with a proxy server. |
Determine Access Gateway IP address |
Determine Access Gateway IP address for non-AWS instances. Configure required admin entry in local hosts file. Configure required DNS entries. |
Initialize the Access Gateway Admin UI console | Initialize the cookie domain and instance hostname. |
Configure your Okta org as an Identity Provider | Configure Okta tenant as an identify provider. |
Reset Access Gateway and verify configuration | Initialize Access Gateway after first boot. |
Configure SAML access to from your Okta tenant | Configure Okta tenant to allow access to Access Gateway using SAML. |
Review security best practices | Examine and execute a set of common Access Gateway security best practices. |
Ensure that you appropriately name your Access Gateway nodes when you create them for use in a high availability cluster. These names must be resolvable between Access Gateway instances before you configure high availability.