Accessing KHIKA Gui

Login

In this section we assume that your VM is ready. You can login into the GUI using the Web Browser (Google Chrome) for further configuration of KHIKA. Note: KHIKA does not support any browser apart from Google Chrome.

Open the Google Chrome browser and enter IP address of KHIKA server. The URL is in the format : "https://IP_address_of_KHIKA_App_Server"

Note that the certificate for the web server is self-signed and hence the browse will warn you at this. You may ignore this warning and proceed.

Click Advanced to proceed to get below message

Following landing page for user login appears.

If you wish to install your own certificate, please perform below steps

Login to the appliance using ‘khika’ user using your favourite ssh client
cd /opt/KHIKA/kibana/config
Open kibana.yml in ‘vi’ editor
Locate section ‘server.ssl.enabled’. It looks like below

The default self-signed certificates are installed in following directory: /opt/KHIKA/3rdpartyUnix/Apache24/conf/

Note that KHIKA supports PEM-Format SSL certificates. Please refer to the documentation of your certificate vendor to convert your certificates into the PEM format, if they are in any other format.

After you have the .crt (i.e. the certificate) and the .key (i.e. private key) files, copy them in /opt/KHIKA/3rdpartyUnix/Apache24/conf/ directory.
Change the filenames (and directory paths if you have copied the certificate and key anywhere else) if required in kibana.yml file
Make sure that the ‘server.ssl.certificate’ stanza points to the full path of the certificate and ‘server.ssl.key’ stanza points to the full path of the private keys.
After editing and saving kibana.yml, come to the command prompt. Enter cd /opt/KHIKA and fire command “./khika_appserver.sh stop”
Wait for some time (2 to 3 minutes)
Fire command ‘./khika_appserver.sh start’ from /opt/KHIKA directory
Connect using the fresh session of the browser
Login using default credentials (i.e. username = admin, password = admin).