macOS instructions

MacOS NVIS Alert GUI Instructions

Overview

The NVIS App is a dock icon app that allows you to do all NVIS commands without having to use the Terminal shell. CLI. The app is loaded from a disk image (DMG) file.

The mapping to NVIS commands is reflected in this table:

Button

CLI

Privilege

Quickstart

There are two versions of NVIS for Mac. NVIS App is the latest for M1/M2/M3 (arm64), and x86_64 (Universal). Which you could run with Rosetta.

Either can be downloaded from https://nvis-inc.com/downloadas DMG files.

Other than that, the attached instructions are the same for both.

The Quick Start is:

Download the arm64 or x86_64 DMG
Click on DMG and it will mount the Installer. Launch it.
The installer lets you drag and drop NVIS to the Applications folder.
Launch NVIS You will see:

Press Install/Update. It will prompt you for the Admin password.
IMPORTANT: From here, you will have to go to System Settings, Privacy & Security to unblock the device driver.
You will then have to REBOOT to change the policy to load third party drivers. This is described here : https://tunnelblick.net/cKextsInstallation.html .
After rebooting, launch NVIS again. Press “Set Address” for your license. Here’s a demo license:

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Press OK. It will promote you for the Admin password to save it.

9. Now it gets easy. You can press: Settings to see your NVIS IP.

10. If all is well, you can press ON.

11. To test, you can click on this URL http://10.0.1.65/You should still see Paris

App Installation

Download DMG file: “NVIS App Install <arm64, x86_64>.dmg”
From the desktop double click the DMG. You will see:

Double click and you will see:

Drag the NVIS icon to the Applications folder.
You should now see the NVIS icon in your Applications and in the Launchpad

Click the app and you will see:

Setup and Operation

The NVIS App buttons organized in the order of use:

• Install/Update – installs or updates the NVIS CLI and drivers.

• About – to verify the version of the installed software.

• Reload drivers after a power oT or cold-boot.

• Set Address – This is the “who am I “ query to the SDP using the assigned User Address for your node. It also let’s you change your identity.

• Settings – show the Group, NVIS IP for the User Address.

• NVIS IP – just show the secure IP address of your machine.

• ON – connects to your network segment / group

• OFF – disconnect from your group

The normal operation is just ON/OFF.

Install/Update

This button installs or updates the underlying NVIS commands and drivers.

NOTE: First time installation requires you to go to System Settings to enable the app, and Privacy and Security to enable third party driver load, then REBOOT to load the drivers.

About

This returns the version and platform info:

Set Address

You first must do a “who am I” query to get your assigned group, network and security information for your unique address.

NVIS IP

This button shows the current IP

Settings

This command gets configuration. First time shows the NVIS IP on the main window. Clicking it again shows all details.

The details consist of:

• Group name

• NVIS IP

• User (Universal Unique Address)

ON

The ON button connects to the NVIS network. This requires Administrator (sudo) privileges, so a dialog will pop-up:

You may verify this in a Terminal window by pinging your own NVIS IP:

OFF

The OFF button will disconnect from the NVIS network. It also requires Administrator (sudo) privileges. After running it, if you have a Terminal window running ping, you will see that it times out until you press ON.