1. Log in to your UTunnel account (Organization/Personal) and navigate to the CREATE button in the Create an Access Gateway section.
2. If your billing address details aren’t already saved in your account, you’ll be prompted to provide them. This step is optional—you can either enter the details and click Proceed, or choose Skip to add them later from the Billing tab in your dashboard.
3. Enter the required details to configure your on-premise VPN server. Provide the information in the fields below:
- Package: Select your preferred package – Basic and Standard
- Access Gateway Type: Select the VPN Access Gateway type as On-Premise
- Access Gateway Name: Enter an easily identifiable name for your On-Premise VPN gateway.
- IP address: Enter your server’s public IP address. Ensure it is a static, public IPv4 address. The server can be located either within your on-premise infrastructure or in a cloud VPC where your business network resources are hosted.
- Access Gateway User Licences: Choose the number of user licenses you would need on this on-premise VPN gateway. This depends on the number of users in your organization requiring secure remote access via VPN.
4. You will reach the Order Summary page, which displays the details of the Access Gateway configuration and the billing amount. Click on the Proceed button to make the payment.
5. If this is your first subscription, you will be asked to enter your credit card details. In that case, enter your payment details and click the Start Your Trial button.
6. You will be directed to the Access Gateway Overview page, where you can check the VPN server creation status.
7. You will be directed to the Access Gateway Overview page, where the registration token is displayed. Please copy the registration token as it is required when you deploy the access gateway
8. Connect to your server via SSH:
ssh root@SERVER_IP
9. run the following commands:
# replace YOUR_REG_TOKEN with the registration token you copied from the Access Gateway Overview page.
sudo utnservice register YOUR_REG_TOKEN
sudo utnservice start
10. Make sure that inbound connections to the following ports are allowed to accept VPN connections.
- Ports used for OpenVPN connections: TCP 443, UDP 443, and UDP 53 (if scramble VPN is enabled)
- Ports used for IPSEC connections: UDP 4500 and UDP 500
- Ports used for managing UTunnel services like live sessions, firewalls, and site-to-site tunneling: TCP 38081
11. Now your VPN Gateway will be ready to accept VPN connections. You can now manage user access to this VPN gateway through the Access Control section on the left pane.