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How To: Install a Dispel Virtual Ubuntu Wicket — Full Auto-Install Wicket Guide
How To: Install a Dispel Virtual Ubuntu Wicket — Full Auto-Install Wicket Guide

This goal of this document is to walk through installing a Dispel Virtual Ubuntu Wicket.

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Written by Maya Shah
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Welcome! Dispel will have provided a custom iso file to the user for the install. This guide is broken down into three sections:

  1. Building the VM

  2. Installing and configuring the image

  3. Verifying success

Pre-Requisite

Before loading Dispel's Wicket ISO onto a VM, please ensure that your downloaded file is not corrupted. To verify the integrity of your downloaded Wicket ISO file, please visit the guide linked below.

How To: SHA256 Checksum Guide

Building the VM

💡 To start this process, you will need a custom ISO file from Dispel. This ISO file will contain everything needed for your Wicket—including the OS, network configurations, and wicket licensing. Simply build the VM to the following specs, attach, and boot.

  1. Create a virtual machine with:

    • Select Ubuntu 64-bit as the Type/Architecture

    • (Min) 4 GB RAM

    • (Min) 25 GB storage

    • 2 vCPU

    • Two network interfaces, one with access to external Internet and the other with access to the target network. For the rest of this guide, eth0 references the external interface, and eth1 references the interface facing the target network.

  2. Attach the custom iso to the virtual machine.

  3. Boot up the machine.

Installing and Configuring the Image

  1. Once you mount the ISO and bootup the machine, the installer will automatically run to completion, and turn off the machine

  2. Please confirm that the machine’s NICs are properly configured, as the wicket will setup its network on its first boot automatically.

  3. The installer attempts to remove the ISO automatically, but some hypervisors do not allow this. Please confirm/remove the ISO and boot up the machine.

  4. The first boot will take a little longer than normal as there are many things that are configured at this time.

  5. When boot up is finished you will be presented with a login screen. Login with the credentials you were provided with the ISO.

Verifying Success

  1. After 2 Minutes: In the command line, type ifconfig. You should see two interfaces called tun100 and tun101 appear.

  2. ping 10.100.1.1 should be successful.

  3. Verify the Network Interface addresses are correct.

  4. A Dispel team member should verify that the Wicket is visible from the Moving Target Defense Region.

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