Agilicus AnyX requires modern cryptography with a strong chain of trust. This is achieved using Let’s Encrypt.

Some older Microsoft Windows systems are not updated to have the proper cryptographic trust information installed. You should upgrade your Windows installation, but, if this is not possible, you can manually install the certificates.

First, download the .der file from https://letsencrypt.org/certificates for each of ‘X1 & X2‘.

For the X1 der and X2 der, open these on your desktop. You will be prompted to open the certificate manager. From here, Install, and pick the “Trusted Root Certification Authorities”.

Now we must import these to the Machine trust as well (above we did your user). To do so, open ‘mmc’

Now press ‘Control-M’.

Select the X1 (and repeat for X2) certificate from earlier.

At this stage you should be able to install the Agilicus Connector.

See “Theming“

See “Firewall Configuration“

Some customers have issues with their outbound or next-generation firewall. It might block their new domain name they use with Agilicus AnyX (e.g. connect.mydomain.com). We recommend configuring your firewall by hostname if possible. If it must be by IP, this could theoretically change in the future.
See “Firewall Configuration” for the specific rules.

If you have a user who has signed in with one identity provider (e.g. Google) and you wish to change them to another (e.g. Microsoft Azure), or, the user’s email has been changed, use the ‘Update User Identity’ feature. This will disconnect the user from their existing identity provider, and, on their first new sign in, they will be adopted by the new one. Once you have selected thhis option you may change the user’s Email or switch them to a different identity provider.

On the “Access/Resource Permissions” menu in your administrative web interface you can control which users or groups have which permissions on a resource. See “Permissions” for more information.

By default you will have a ‘Shared’ Microsoft Identity Provider enabled. This allows anyone to sign in with any Microsoft account: Azure, Office 365, Outlook.com, etc. This is useful for 3rd parties, vendors, etc.
If you wish to force your users to sign in with your own Azure tenant (e.g. to enable auto-create), you may create a ‘Custom Authentication Issuer’.

You may use Time-Based One-Time Codes (TOTP) (e.g. Google Authenticator, Microsoft Authenticator, Authy, etc), or, any of the standards from the WebAuthn standard set (e.g. USB-based like YubiKey, Passkeys, TPM-based, biometric, etc).

Agilicus AnyX joins together (federates) a set of Identity Providers (IdP). As an end user, you will see this as e.g. ‘Sign In With Google’ or ‘Sign In With Microsoft’. The AnyX platform in turn presents these federated IdP as a new IdP. The Upstream Identity Provider is it original one that the user interacts with (e.g. Microsoft, Google, Active Directory Federation Services, etc).

The connector and the launcher both might observe this error on a Microsoft Windows platform when trying to refresh credentials.

The normal operation of the Launcher is to be automatically refreshed via Profile when the desktop integration is installed. However, if the user does not have the desktop integration, or, the credentials have timed out, they will see the Launcher open a browser to facilitate a refresh.

As part of this flow, the Launcher will open a local TCP port (e.g. port 53210) on localhost.

Normally the Windows firewall will allow this since the port is localhost only. However, some environments require the Agilicus Connector & Launcher to be explicitly allowed in the Microsoft Windows firewall. In this case, you might see a message “bind: an attempt was made to access a socket in a way forbidden by its access permissions.”

The Agilicus Connector supports running in an Active/Active mode, with up to four instances running at a time.

Note that if the Connector exposes a Share, then it cannot run in Active/Active mode. Instead, consider an approach like a Agilicus Connector Windows Cluster.

Yes. First, you need to enable connector logging in Organisation -> Audit Destinations by clicking the Access and Authorization check-boxes. Your connectors will shortly start streaming their logs to Agilicus. You can see the logs in Applications->Diagnose. Fill in the time range you are interested in, then click View Logs. Note that you may see other logs related to your Organisation here. The relevant ones will have source_type equal to agent-connector

No it does not. However, given that it will use TCP/IP to connect to them, it needs to be able to route to the IP it determines for the network, and any firewalls in between must allow access to that IP and the target TCP port.

Go to the Connector->Overview screen. Each connector reports an overview status here. “Good” means all instances of the connector are running, and that they are fully connected to Agilicus.

Go to the Connector->Overview screen. Your connectors will shortly begin to publish statistics. You can see a summary
of successful/failed connections in the overview table. Click Actions -> View Detailed Statistics for a breakdown of these stats.

Check that the connector itself is up (the ‘Good’/green in below). After you open the detailed statistics screen, reproduce the problem, and look at which counters increment.

As part of maintaining its connection to Agilicus, the connector reports some system information. In the Connector->Overview screen, click on the connector in which you are interested. The resulting expanded table shows each instance of the connector and the hostname of the machine on which it is running.

When establishing a connection to a Network, the connector first determines an IP with which to communicate with. If an Override IP is present in the Network’s configuration, it will use that. Otherwise, it will use the local system’s DNS configuration to do a DNS lookup of the network’s Hostname. It then establishes a connection to that IP using the local system’s standard TCP/IP stack.

You may have a local firewall which is blocking outbound communication. See ‘Firewall Configuration‘. Check the connector logs (on Windows, using EventViewer, on Linux typically with journalctl -fu agilicus-agent)

Your Network for the HTTP server may be incorrectly configured. The connector proxies HTTP requests at the application layer. If the HTTP server runs HTTPS/TLS, the Network must be configured to initiate an HTTPS/TLS connection, and it must trust the certificate presented by the server. Conversely, if the HTTP server is plaintext (unencrypted), but the connector is configured to expect TLS, it will fail to establish the connection.

In some cases, Agilicus Support might be more effectively able to assist you with a packet capture from the machine running your connector. To do this, we can use Wireshark as below.

Install Wireshark

Open a browser to https://www.wireshark.org/. Select ‘Download’.

Open Wireshark, Start Capture

Double-click the primary/default network connection.

Now, reproduce the problem, usually a few times. For example, if you have a NVR which is not working, attempt to use it from the Agilicus profile interface.

Now, stop the capture:

Send the Capture to Agilicus

Depending on how long you have captured, this file can be large. Contact Agilicus via the ‘Chat’ interface in the web interface if you need a location to put the file.

Please describe what you were doing, what you observed, what was incorrect, and information about the network.

The end-user receives this message on sign-in:

Message: upstream connection failed
Action: The upstream host could be down

This indicates the Agilicus Connector is up, and the user was able to sign in correctly, however, the customer-supplied application is either down, or unreachable from the Agilicus Connector.

A common issue is a change in IP/port of the application, you may change this as below.

To diagnose the issue, use the detailed stats from the connector overview page:

Microsoft has discontinued support for Windows 7 and Windows 2012. The Agilicus connector continues to run on these machines, however, it is important to have KB2533623 installed.

If the Windows 7 machine is missing KB2533623, the connector may fail to start. The update can be manually installed from:

https://web.archive.org/web/20200412130407/https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=26764

Note: it is possible a superceding KB might be installed, e.g. KB3063858 or KB4457144 or KB3063858.

In some cases your air gapped environment does not allow Certificate Revocation List checking. This can occur if you have a server which has never been able to fetch the CRL. This can cause an issue installing, but not running, the Agilicus Connector.

If you see an error like “The revocation function was unable to check revocation for the certificate” when you paste the installation command for the Agilicus Connector, add the parameter “–ssl-no-revoke” to the curl component. This will vary a little bit depending on your platform, but below is an example for a Windows platform:

curl --ssl-no-revoke -sSL -o "%TEMP%\aa.exe" https://www.agilicus.com/www/releases/secure-agent/stable/agilicus-agent.exe && "%TEMP%\aa.exe" client --install --challenge-id XXXX --challenge-code XXXX && del "%TEMP%\aa.exe"

Once installed, this will not be a problem again.

If you wish to verify the Agilicus Connector executable, it is digitally signed.

We discuss this problem a bit more, and a generic solution for other components in “Locked-Down Networks Certificate Revocation“. If you are looking for a general purpose secure firewall solution that can forward Certificate Revocation, and only Certificate Revocation (including OCSP) without fixed IP address lists, please contact us, we have a full solution in this area.

Agilicus AnyX requires modern cryptography with a strong chain of trust. This is achieved using Let’s Encrypt.

Some older Microsoft Windows systems are not updated to have the proper cryptographic trust information installed. You should upgrade your Windows installation, but, if this is not possible, you can manually install the certificates.

First, download the .der file from https://letsencrypt.org/certificates for each of ‘X1 & X2‘.

For the X1 der and X2 der, open these on your desktop. You will be prompted to open the certificate manager. From here, Install, and pick the “Trusted Root Certification Authorities”.

Now we must import these to the Machine trust as well (above we did your user). To do so, open ‘mmc’

Now press ‘Control-M’.

Select the X1 (and repeat for X2) certificate from earlier.

At this stage you should be able to install the Agilicus Connector.

The connector status can be found by checking the systemctl service status:
$ sudo systemctl status agilicus-agent

The Agilicus Connector runs as a Windows Service. Open the Windows ‘Services’ app and look for ‘Agilicus Connector’. The ‘Service Status’ will show the current status.

Navigate to your organization’s Agilicus Admin console. Under Resources -> Connectors -> Overview, the column named ‘Status’ reflects the real-time status of the connector.

The overall status is shown as ‘GOOD’, ‘DEGRADE’, ‘DOWN’.

Accurate globally synced time is critical to the proper operation of many modern cryptographic tools. It affects certificte allocation/revocation, sign-in audit logs, etc. See https://www.agilicus.com/anyx-guide/time-synchronisation/ for further details to ensure the local machine time synchronization is setup.

Connector logs on Linux are via journalctl -fu agilicus-agent

Connector logs on Windows can be found in the Windows Event Viewer. Inside Event Viewer (Local) -> Windows Logs -> Application, See “Agilicus Connector – Microsoft Windows“.

The Agilicus Connector needs to be able to reach any service it is used to expose. For a share, this means running on a machine with access to the files. For a Desktop, it means being able to reach via TCP (port 3389 or port 5900 for RDP or VNC typically) the destination system. This might mean running on the same system, this might mean running on a device on the same network segment or inside the same firewall.

Microsoft has discontinued support for Windows 7 and Windows 2012. The Agilicus connector continues to run on these machines, however, it is important to have KB2533623 installed.

If the Windows 7 machine is missing KB2533623, the connector may fail to start. The update can be manually installed from:

https://web.archive.org/web/20200412130407/https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=26764

Note: it is possible a superceding KB might be installed, e.g. KB3063858 or KB4457144 or KB3063858.

End users interact with AnyX via Profile (at https://profile.MYDOMAIN). Each resource is represented by an icon. There are 3 ‘tabs’ (mine, requested, all). If an icon does not show in the ‘mine’ tab, but does show in ‘all’, the user is missing permission. If the icon does not show at all, try refreshing the browser.

In some circumstances it is more efficient to diagnose a web application issue by generating a HAR file and sharing with Agilicus Support.

Google Chrome (And Derived Browsers Like Microsoft Edge)

In Google Chrome (and other Chrome-derived browsers such as Microsoft Edge), you can enter the developer mode (ctrl-shift-I or F12), and then select the ‘Export HAR (sanitized)…)’ button.

1. Open a new incognito window.
2. Click the more actions menu (…) to the right of the toolbar and select More tools – Developer Tools (or press F12 or CTRL-SHIFT-I)
3. Select the Network tab.
4. Ensure that Google Chrome is recording. A red button indicates that a recording is already in progress. Otherwise, click Record network log.
5. Select Preserve Log.
6. Clear any existing logs by clicking Clear network log ().
7. Go to the page where the issue occurred and reproduce the issue.
8. Click Export HAR (the down arrow icon) to export the file as HAR.
9. Save the HAR file.

Firefox

• To open the developer console in Firefox, click on the Firefox Menu in the upper-right-hand corner of the browser and select More Tools > Browser Console. You can also use Option + ⌘ + E (on macOS) or Shift + CTRL + C (on Windows/Linux).
• Refresh the page.
• Go to the Network tab and, click the settings icon (upper right side of the panel), choose Save All As Har.

Apple Safari

Ensure the ”Show Develop menu” in the menu bar is checked under Safari > Settings > Advanced tab.

• Visit the web page from where you want to export the traffic.
• Click Develop on the Menubar, then select Show Web Inspector. Refresh the page.
• Go to the Network tab and click Export on the upper right side of the pane.

See “Organisation/Billing” in your admin portal (https://admin.MYDOMAIN). From here, select ‘VIEW/UPDATE PAYMENT INFORMATION”

See “Organisation/Billing” in your admin portal (https://admin.MYDOMAIN). From here, select ‘VIEW/UPDATE PAYMENT INFORMATION”

See “Organisation/Billing” in your admin portal (https://admin.MYDOMAIN). From here, select ‘VIEW/UPDATE PAYMENT INFORMATION”

When you initially signed up to the Agilicus AnyX platform, you choose a domain (either your own DNS name with a CNAME, or, an Agilicus-supplied domain). Your domain looks something like ORGNAME.agilicus.cloud. You will have received a welcome email with this information, as well as have been automatically signed-in in your browser to e.g. https://admin.ORGNAME.YOURDOMAIN.

Open the admin web user interface at https://admin.YOURDOMAIN/

In the Google Play store, install Microsoft Remote Desktop. Once installed, use the Agilicus profile (https://profile.__MYDOMAIN__) and launch the remote desktop icon for your resource.

The first time you run this, you may be asked to grant permission, as below.

RealVNC® by default uses a proprietary authentication mechanism, rendering it inoperable with standard clients. You can enable standard authentication as shown in the below image (enable VNC Password as an authentication mechanism).

You may also wish to see more detail about how to use the RealVNC as shipped with Raspberry PI.

TightVNC via command line allows specifying the specific display adapter number.

TIghtVNC also allows display offsets in the ‘Extra Ports’ configuration. By specifying a specific port (eg. 5091), a display offset can be configured for a monitor. Once the port is configured and known, a new desktop can be configured in the Agilicus Admin portal with the port number.

If you are using an Agilicus Launcher with Rockwell Studio rslinx to reach one or more PLCs, you may see an error “listen tcp 127.74.52.3:44818: bind: An attempt was made to access a socket in a way forbidden by its access permissions.”

This indicates you have another process running which has globally opened this port. You may find this process via:

netstat -an |findstr 44818

If you see a result like:

TCP 0.0.0.0:44818 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING

This means that there is a process running with this port globally, exclusively, open. You can find the process:

netstat -anb

and you will see the named process. Stop this process which has the port open exclusively, and, the Agilicus Launcher should now work.

To avoid this, you can either use a different port, reconfigure the exclusive process to use a specific IP (instead of 0.0.0.0), or, run the Agilicus Launcher first.

The Agilicus Share feature makes use of the Microsoft WebClient. This is an optional component which may not have been enabled at installation time on your Windows Server. Microsoft has a knowledge base entry discussing the WebDav redirector.

Installing WebDAV support on Windows Server 2012 R2

1. Start Server Manager from the Start screen.
2. Click Manage, then click Add Roles and Features.
3. Select Role-based or feature-based installation. Click Next.
4. Select a local server from the server pool. Click Next.
5. The Desktop Experience feature is not a Server Role, so skip the Server Roles page by clicking Next.
6. In the Select Features section, expand User Interfaces and Infrastructure and check the Desktop Experience check box. Probably it will now ask you whether you also want to install the features required by Desktop Experience. Click the Add Features button to proceed. Now, click the Next button to proceed.
7. In the Confirmation section, optionally check the Restart the destination server automatically if required check box as the Desktop Experience feature will need a restart to complete. You can also manually restart the server after the wizard steps are complete.
8. Wait while the features are being installed. You can also close the Add Roles and Features Wizard window – it will continue to run in the background.

Installing WebDAV support on Windows Server 2016, Windows Server 2019, and Windows Server 2022

While installing Windows Server 2016, Windows Server 2019, or Windows Server 2022 operating systems, you probably enabled Desktop Experience. So after you install your Server OS, you have to enable WebDAV Redirector.

1. Start Server Manager from the Start screen.
2. Open Manage menu and click Add Roles and Features.
3. Click Features tab.
4. Select WebDAV Redirector feature.
5. Click Next to proceed to the Confirm installation selections window.
6. Click Install. You can close the window while the feature is being installed.
7. Close Add Roles and Features window.

Enabling WebClient Services

On some machines, you also have to enable the WebClient Service to Automatic” Startup Type.

Do the following:

1. Press Windows key (or  + ) to open the search.
2. Type in “Services” and run the Services window.
3. Locate the service WebClient.
4. Double click WebClient to open its properties.
5. In the Startup type combo box select Automatic.
6. If the service is not running yet, click Start button.
7. Click OK.
8. Close Services window.

Enabling Portable Device Enumerator Service

On some machines, you also have to enable the Portable Device Enumerator Service to Automatic Startup Type, when you want to use Microsoft Access or Microsoft Excel data files from the Document Storage.

Admin can enable user requests in the admin portal. This eases the process of giving or denying access of a user, but a user will see all the available resources
From the admin portal, Organisation > Overview (check the Disable User Requests checkbox)
All admin will receive notifications upon a resource request from users
You may refer here for more information on permissions

If you see a List error and the folder exists, often that means that the account the Agilicus Connector runs on cannot see the folder being shared.

This may mean that the connector needs to run as a different account, or you need to follow the above steps for Sharing network mapped drives. See Shares for more information.

No, we do not store anything from your share. All data always lives on your file server. You have the sole data at rest on your system, and, data in motion is encrypted end to end.

When creating a new Agilicus share the Agilicus connector cannot see network mapped drives because it runs as the local system user, and not a logged in user. This means that it cannot see shares which are only typically mapped for logged in users. When this happens, if you browse to the share in profile, you will get a ‘list directory error’ as the connector cannot see the directory. In order to correct this, create a link to the network drive on a local drive eg mklink /D C:\myLink \\127.0.0.1\c$. Then use the link as the path for the Agilicus share, in the example C:\myLink. You may also need to change the user which the connector runs as is in order to access the drive.

If you have an application hosted on a Subfolder/path in your Web Server
You may have an application hosted under a subfolder/path on your web server, possibly because it is better than having another server for it. For example: localhost:port/subpath, localhost:port/support etc.

To enable the subpath hosting for your application,

1. Go to Resources > Applications > Define and select the application from the drop down at the top of the page
2. Then in Security (tab) > Firewall Rules > HTTP Rules, change the / entry under path to your custom subpath (For example, /subpath)
3. Under Proxy (tab) > HTTP Rewrites, inside the Common Path Prefix field, enter your custom subpath again (For example, /subpath)

In some circumstances it is more efficient to diagnose a web application issue by generating a HAR file and sharing with Agilicus Support.

Google Chrome (And Derived Browsers Like Microsoft Edge)

In Google Chrome (and other Chrome-derived browsers such as Microsoft Edge), you can enter the developer mode (ctrl-shift-I or F12), and then select the ‘Export HAR (sanitized)…)’ button.

1. Open a new incognito window.
2. Click the more actions menu (…) to the right of the toolbar and select More tools – Developer Tools (or press F12 or CTRL-SHIFT-I)
3. Select the Network tab.
4. Ensure that Google Chrome is recording. A red button indicates that a recording is already in progress. Otherwise, click Record network log.
5. Select Preserve Log.
6. Clear any existing logs by clicking Clear network log ().
7. Go to the page where the issue occurred and reproduce the issue.
8. Click Export HAR (the down arrow icon) to export the file as HAR.
9. Save the HAR file.

Firefox

• To open the developer console in Firefox, click on the Firefox Menu in the upper-right-hand corner of the browser and select More Tools > Browser Console. You can also use Option + ⌘ + E (on macOS) or Shift + CTRL + C (on Windows/Linux).
• Refresh the page.
• Go to the Network tab and, click the settings icon (upper right side of the panel), choose Save All As Har.

Apple Safari

Ensure the ”Show Develop menu” in the menu bar is checked under Safari > Settings > Advanced tab.

• Visit the web page from where you want to export the traffic.
• Click Develop on the Menubar, then select Show Web Inspector. Refresh the page.
• Go to the Network tab and click Export on the upper right side of the pane.

Web Applications use network resources. You can change where the network resource is accessed (either the connector it is bound to, or the hostname/IP/port that it is internally known as) by navigating to Networks/Overview.

The specific resource(s) will be named similarly to the web application, with -local-service appended.

In some cases, Agilicus Support might be more effectively able to assist you with a packet capture from the machine running your connector. To do this, we can use Wireshark as below.

Install Wireshark

Open a browser to https://www.wireshark.org/. Select ‘Download’.

Open Wireshark, Start Capture

Double-click the primary/default network connection.

Now, reproduce the problem, usually a few times. For example, if you have a NVR which is not working, attempt to use it from the Agilicus profile interface.

Now, stop the capture:

Send the Capture to Agilicus

Depending on how long you have captured, this file can be large. Contact Agilicus via the ‘Chat’ interface in the web interface if you need a location to put the file.

Please describe what you were doing, what you observed, what was incorrect, and information about the network.

No, we are not in anyway affiliated with SpaceX / Starlink.

No, Apple does not provide a server platform since the XServe. The connector is supported on Linux, Windows, various embedded platforms like Synology, pfSense, Mikrotik, etc. To run the connector on an Apple Mac, you may use the Docker instructions (see Install Docker Desktop on Mac).

If you are an enthusiast, consider running the connector under Docker on your Mac.

Yes, via Agilicus AnyX.

No. The Agilicus AnyX is a SaaS solution, cloud based. In order to work with your Starlink network, you will install a small piece of software on a single device you already own.

The Agilicus AnyX platform is almost entirely cloud SaaS. In order to work with your Starlink network, you will be installing the Agilicus Connector on a device you already have. This software will facilitate the incoming network traffic.

Yes, the end user can use the web-based profile as well as the desktop based launcher. The desktop-based launcher requires OSX 11 (last supported version by Apple) or later.

You can see an animated diagram on the Agilicus Connector page. But in general, this works the same way e.g. a Google Nest thermostat works. Something inside your home network makes a persistent outbound connection to our cloud. When you are away, you will connect to our cloud, it will confirm your identity, and bridge you across these two outbound connections.

Agilicus AnyX is an implementation of Zero Trust, a security best practice. You will use single-sign-on authentication via your Google or Microsoft account (there are no passwords). You can optionally enable multi-factor authentication. All traffic is encrypted with TLS 1.3 HTTPS. You can configure firewall rules in this system for e.g. geo-ip based access, as well as other more complex rules. You will have a full audit trail of who used what when.

You can see the pricing here. If you have only 2 users there will be no ongoing cost.

Certainly! Please either open the chat icon in the lower-left, fill in the form, or email us (info @ agilicus.com) and our team would be happy to discuss further with you.

Agilicus AnyX is an industrial, business product. The large set of features may make it too complex for a consumer environment.

Agilicus AnyX is an excellent solution for web applications, for SSH (e.g. command line access), for a Share (e.g. file access), and for remote desktop (Microsoft Remote Desktop, VNC). If you have complex networking needs that require layer-3 routing this is probably not the right solution for you.

The Agilicus Connector supports many device types. Windows, Linux, OpenWRT, Synology. You can see more information on the product guide page. In general, the machine will need about 100MB of storage, 20MB of ram to operate.

It is very unlikely the Agilicus Connector will install on your camera.

We do not recommend using the RTSP feature of your camera with Agilicus AnyX. Instead we recommend using the HTTP interface.

Many security cameras have a web interface. If you have a URL you can use from your browser at home, then you can use it while away with Agilicus AnyX.

In most cases, if you have an NVR, this will work. If your camera supports ONVIF, we have specific support for some NVR with that.

Many people use Synology Surveillance Station or Shinobi NVR with Agilicus AnyX.

Sample setups for generic ONVIF cameras are here.

A sample setup for an older Hikvision is here.