UA Dashboard on IIS?

dcherry88 · January 22, 2020, 6:17pm

Wondering if anyone else has attempted and maybe got the UA dashboard up and running via IIS instance with windows auth.

I startup my UA server, and then i setup my dashboard.ps1 for the IIS instance to Connect-UAServer , then follow the basic idea of the sample scripts in the documentation for UA Dashboard

variable for New-UADashboard
setup my authpolicies and methods
create New-UDLoginPage, store in $dashboard.loginpage
Start-uddashboard etc.

When this starts I go to the page for the UA Dashboard and it just goes to a blank page.

adam · January 23, 2020, 8:21pm

I haven’t tried to setup UA in IIS yet. I don’t see why a UA dashboard wouldn’t work like any other dashboard. Can you press F12 in your browser to see if there are any errors in the page? It’s weird it’s just blank

dcherry88 · January 23, 2020, 9:11pm

Seeing this on console tab.

Failed to load resource: :10001/api/interal/dashboard:1
the server responded with a status of 500 ()

adam · January 23, 2020, 9:12pm

Can you enable logging for UD?

In the dashboard.ps1, just plop Enable-UDLogging -FilePath

We should be able to see what’s causing that 500.

dcherry88 · January 23, 2020, 9:32pm

I’ve got udlogging enabled but no logfiles has created for the page, so i have no data to look at.

adam · January 23, 2020, 9:33pm

Make sure the AppPool user has the permission to write to the location you’ve defined

dcherry88 · January 23, 2020, 9:51pm

server name changed to protect the innocent :)


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dcherry88 · January 24, 2020, 10:18pm

Wanted to put an update on this that I made progress. The issue I was having were tied to the fact that I had the page setup for Windows Auth, but still had anonymous auth setup on the IIS page itself. I discovered this when i turned all of the auth and login page code off just to see if I could access it on IIS without any login.

Unfortunately, I am still having an issue on the page when i attempt to set it up to use Windows Auth properly. All that occurs is the login prompt continues to pop back up with Authorization Failed showing in the UD log. Based off the sample script on the UA Docs page, this was how I had my login page code setup:

Connect-UAServer -ComputerName http://localhost:10000
$dashboard = New-UADashboard

$auth = @()
$auth += New-UDAuthenticationMethod -Windows

$AuthPolicies = @()
$AuthPolicies += New-UDAuthorizationPolicy -Name "Admin" -Endpoint {
    param($ClaimsPrincipal)
    $id = ($Cache:AuthPolicyData | Where-Object {$_.groupname -eq 'admin'}).groupid         
$ClaimsPrincipal.HasClaim("http://schemas.microsoft.com/ws/2008/06/identity/claims/groupsid", $id)if($ClaimsPrincipal.HasClaim("http://schemas.microsoft.com/ws/2008/06/identity/claims/groupsid", $id)){
        $user = $ClaimsPrincipal.identity.name
        $identity = Get-UAIdentity -name $user
        if($identity -eq $null){
            $role = Get-UARole -Name "Operator"
            New-UAIdentity -Name $username -Role $role
        }
        $Session:AppToken = Grant-UAAppToken -Identity $Identity
    }
    $true
}
$LoginPage = New-UDLoginPage -AuthenticationMethod $auth -PassThru -AuthorizationPolicy $AuthPolicies
$dashboard.LoginPage = $LoginPage
Enable-UDLogging -FilePath .\udlog.log
Start-UDDashboard -Wait -Dashboard $dashboard -HttpsPort 10001 -AdminMode -AllowHttpForLogin

adam · January 26, 2020, 5:08am

Hmmm I know I’ve run into this before and it’s likely an IIS configuration setting and not necessarily a UD issue. I just can’t for the life of me think what the problem was. Do you have forward auth token set in the web.config?

dcherry88 · January 26, 2020, 10:23pm

Progress! I guess when i pulled in the 2.8.2 files i overwrote my web.config and erased the forced auth.

Login is now working, I load the dashboard without issue. I even see my domain/user name added under Identities.

However, i’m noticing that I cannot copy my apptoken ID to clipboard: “Cannot bind argument to parameter ‘Data’ because it is null”. Attempting the commands manually in Admin Terminal do not seem to be returning any data.

and the user is not added to respective Role nor will it let me add it to the role: “Cannot index into a null array”

Obie · January 29, 2020, 6:20pm

Hey @dcherry88 , I am interested in this as well but running into some issues. I am going to attempt it again today when I get some free time. Let me know if you get it working, I am sure others will want to do this as well.

Thanks
-Obie

adam · January 29, 2020, 6:38pm

These are probably bugs…

I’m seeing issues with roles. Looking into that now.

I think we still have an issue with the clipboard in UD as well. We reopened that issue.

alaaelmahdy · February 3, 2020, 6:39pm

I am having the same problem here after upgrading to 2.8.3
i have 2 dashboards with enterprise license both on iis and both worked nice before the upgrade
now one of them is working and the other one is not.

the working one start code:

$Dashboard1= New-UDDashboard -Title “Dashboard1” -NavbarLinks $NavBarLinks -Pages $pages -Navigation $Navigation -EndpointInitialization $EndpointInit -Theme $theme
Start-UDDashboard -wait -Dashboard $Dashboard1

the nonworking one start code is:
$Dashboard2= New-UDDashboard -EndpointInitialization $EndpointInit -Title “Dashboard2” -NavbarLinks $NavBarLinks -Pages $pages -Theme $Theme

Start-UDDashboard -Wait -Dashboard $Dashboard2-PublishedFolder $Folder

i just installed the enterprise license moving out from community edition but i don’t think it’s license related i think it relates more to the issue above.

alaaelmahdy · February 3, 2020, 7:09pm

I have narrowed the search path as i tested all the parts of the code
and i kept only this

#region DynamicPages
$pages += New-UDPage -DefaultHomePage -Name 'Login' -Content { New-UDHeading -Text "Hello, World!" -Size 1}
#region DynamicPages

$Dashboard2 = New-UDDashboard  -Title "Dashboard2"  -Pages $pages 
Start-UDDashboard -Wait -Dashboard $Dashboard2

i think there is a bug related to dynamic pages on this version

adam · February 3, 2020, 8:30pm

Nothing changed around dynamic pages in 2.8.3. It was mostly theme changes so I’m surprised this is happening. When you say it isn’t working, what’s your issue?

alaaelmahdy · February 4, 2020, 5:39am

it gives a blank page only on IIS but when i do a normal start using
Start-UDDashboard -Dashboard $Dashboard2 -Port 1999
it works perfectly.

alaaelmahdy · February 4, 2020, 6:34am

alaaelmahdy · February 4, 2020, 7:52am

you are right it’s not dynamic pages or any thing else i Found the issue ,
$pages += New-UDPage -DefaultHomePage -Name ‘Login’ -Content { New-UDHeading -Text “Hello, World!” -Size 1}

-Name ‘Login’ is not allowed when i change it to home it worked with me.

Obie · February 6, 2020, 4:39pm

Hey All,

I must be missing something because I am having trouble getting the UA Dashboard to start up.

So i have 2 Sites in IIS, one bound to port 8080 and one bound to port 80
Site names are ITA(8080) and ITAutomation(80)

ITA is pointed to the web directory with a
web.config (same as example on Docs)
universal-automation.ps1
Import-Module UniversalAutomation

New-Item "C:\02-PowerShell\ita" -ItemType Directory -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
Start-UAServer -InProcess -ConnectionString "C:\02-PowerShell\ita\database.db"  -RepositoryPath 'C:\02-PowerShell\ita'

ITAutomation same thing
web.config (same as example on docs but updated to reference dashboard.ps1)
dashboard.ps1

Import-Module UniversalAutomation.Dashboard
Connect-UAServer -ComputerName http://ita.domain:8080
$Dashboard = New-UADashboard -ComputerName http://ita.domain:8080
Start-UDDashboard -Dashboard $Dashboard -Wait

When I load up the itautomation page (dns is ita ita.domain/) it loads the default UDDashboard page with all the tutorials/examples.

Been struggling with this for a few days now Any help will be appreciated.

adam · February 6, 2020, 5:22pm

This can happen if the $Dashboard is null so maybe New-UADashboard isn’t working correctly. Can you enable stdout logs in the web.config to see if there is anything interesting in there? I would also use Enable-UDLogging to see if there are exceptions being shown.

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