Cloud Overview

iacbox.cloud allows central monitoring and management of any connected IACBOX.

Features

The main feature categories are:

  • Central management
  • Remote access to any WebAdmin
  • Central monitoring
  • Analytics / data aggregation

Feature Packages

There are different packages with different feature sets available and can be licensed separately per system.

PackageDescription
BasicBasic cloud overview with remote access and cloud backup
ProAll features available for managing multiple systems on a central management platform
Central Services TransitionA transitional package assigned to present customers of Central Service which will get replaced by this platform. It offers only the Remote Access feature

Basic

  • Dashboard Overview of all licenses including reachability check and users online chart
  • Tagging System: Organize and group your systems for better management and selection for batch jobs
  • Essential cloud connectivity and monitoring capabilities
  • Remote Access: Allows to connect to a WebAdmin of any connected system without port-forwardings or other firewall changes
  • Automated daily backups of the system configuration for 7 days
  • Audit log: To track all changes, remote access and batch job executions.

Pro

  • Extended backup retention for 14 days including connection tracking logs and application control logs which can get much larger than the regular configuration backup
  • Advanced backup management that shows all backups for each of your systems and allows to start manual backup operations.
  • Batch job execution for mass deployments and configuration rollouts

Feature Roadmap

  • Add more batch jobs for mass rollouts of configuration changes to multiple systems at once like ticket template rollout, application control profile rollout, and many more.
  • Authentication via iacbox.cloud IDP what allows a better SSO experience together with my.iacbox.
  • Support for 2FA / passwordless login
  • Dashboard: show charts with aggregated overall values
  • Collect and show System Health information and send notifications

Central Services Transition

This package is only used to migrate CentralService users to the new platform.

Features

  • Dashboard overview of all licenses including reachability check and users online chart
  • Remote Access to any WebAdmin

Firewall setup

Needed ports to successfully connect to the iacbox.cloud platform:

  • Port 4222 TCP/UDP must be opened for outgoing connections on the firewall to
    • mq1.iacbox.cloud, mq2.iacbox.cloud, mq3.iacbox.cloud
  • Port 1194/UDP must be opened for outgoing connections on the firewall to
    • vpn1.iacbox.cloud, vpn2.iacbox.cloud, vpn3.iacbox.cloud

Security

All connections are secured by mTLS connections, meaning that

  • the server and each IACBOX system do have separate TLS certificates for messaging and VPN connections
  • all connections (messaging and VPN) are using modern TLS 1.3 connections
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