Manual enrollment using UI or CLI

Enrollment may be initiated using the Lighthouse Web UI, or the Opengear Node Web UI or CLI. Manual methods are suitable for enrolling a small number of Nodes into Lighthouse, for an overview of all methods refer to this article.

Create an Enrollment Bundle

• Login to the Lighthouse 5 Web UI as a Lighthouse Administrator
• Click Manage -> Configure Nodes -> Node Enrollment -> Enrollment Bundles
• Click + to add a new Bundle:

Bundle name: Enter a name of your choice, for example ManualNodes
Token: Enter a password of your choice, for example my-secret-token
Auto-approve node: Check

• Click Apply

Node Web UI

• Login to the Opengear Node Web UI as root or an admin group user
• Click Serial & Network -> Lighthouse

Server Address: address.of.lighthouse
Enrollment Bundle: ManualNodes
Enrollment Token: my-secret-token

• Click Apply Settings
• To check progress, click Serial & Network -> Lighthouse – enrollment is complete when Status is Connected

Node CLI

• Login to the Opengear Node CLI root or become the root user with: sudo -i
• Run the commands:

config -s config.lhvpn.callhome.address=address.of.lighthouse
lhvpn-callhome address.of.lighthouse my-secret-token ManualNodes

• To check progress, run:

ifconfig lhvpn1

• Enrollment is complete when lhvpn1 is configured with an address on Lighthouse VPN

lhvpn1    Link encap:UNSPEC  HWaddr 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
          inet addr:192.168.128.7  P-t-P:192.168.128.7  Mask:255.255.224.0
          UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:57 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:46 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:100

Lighthouse Web UI

Note: This method does not support Enrollment Bundles.

• Login to Lighthouse 5 as a Lighthouse Administrator
• Click Add Node in the top right section of the screen

Name: Enter the Node's hostname (as shown in System -> Administration -> System Name in the Node Web UI, or by the hostname command from the Node CLI)
Network Address: Enter a network address where this Node is currently reachable
Username / Password: Enter the credentials of an admin-group user or the root user on the Node
Auto-approve node: Check

• Click Apply
• Monitor enrollment as the Node progresses from Configure Nodes -> Node Enrollment -> Pending Nodes to -> Enrolled Nodes