Use the IU Groups VPN with Sitehost

To use an SFTP (Secure File Transfer Protocol) client to connect to an Sitehost server from your personal computer, you must first establish an IU Groups VPN connection. Users are granted Groups VPN access when given owner, proxy, or developer status for a group account. For more about these statuses and how to grant them, see Manage Sitehost accounts with the Enterprise Web Technical Services site.

Notes:
  • The IU Groups VPN is required for all SFTP connections to the Sitehost server, even if you are on campus and your computer's connected to the IU network.
  • The IU Groups VPN is used for accessing group-specific resources (see Use the IU Groups VPN to restrict remote access to your team's administrative resources). For access to most resources that simply require a connection to an IU campus network, such as library resources, use the standard IU VPN.

To use the IU Groups VPN with Sitehost:

  1. Make sure the Ivanti Secure Access (formerly Pulse Secure) client is installed on your workstation. For installation instructions, see Connect to the VPN.
    Note:
    The Pulse Secure VPN client was rebranded to Ivanti Secure Access on July 22, 2022. You may be prompted to upgrade to the new client, but either will work for connecting to the IU VPN, and your existing settings should carry over.
  2. Open the Ivanti Secure Access client. Select the + (plus sign) to add a connection.
  3. Add a connection:
    • In the "Name" field, enter a name that you will remember that indicates the connection is for the IU Groups VPN.
    • In the "Server URL" field, enter https://vpn.iu.edu/groups.
  4. Select Connect to initiate the connection. This will also save the connection in the client so you can reuse it.
  5. Enter your credentials:
  6. Select Connect.
  7. Confirm your identity with Two-Step Login (Duo).
    • Use a Duo client to obtain a secondary password, enter the secondary password, and then select Connect.
    • Alternatively, enter push as your secondary password, and then select Connect to initiate a push request to your Duo-enabled smart device.

    For help using Two-Step Login (Duo), see About Two-Step Login (Duo) at IU.

  8. Select a role. If you belong to multiple VPN groups, you will be presented a list to choose from; select Groups 3833 (IU-Linux-Hosting-Users), and then select Connect.

    If you belong to only one VPN group, this step will be skipped.

You should now be connected to the Groups VPN and have access to the Sitehost servers.

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Last modified on 2023-04-28 08:53:57.