SSH Tectia Manager has the following main features and benefits. For a detailed list of new features and enhancements in the latest version, please read the release notes.
Tectia Software Management
| Centralized SSH Tectia software deployment and upgrades | Perform mass installations, upgrades, and uninstallations of SSH Tectia software over distributed and heterogeneous server and workstation environments. |
| Software installation status reporting | Receive real-time detailed reports of software deployment progress over a heterogeneous distributed environment. |
| SSH Tectia binary and documentation library | Import installation packages and documentation for SSH Tectia software for effective software deployment operations. |
Tectia Configuration Management
| Centralized SSH Tectia software configuration management | Create, maintain, assign, and deploy sets of SSH Tectia software configurations with the powerful configuration management GUI. Monitor your environment for local configuration changes for auditable policy enforcement. |
| Configuration status reporting | Receive real-time detailed reports of configuration deployment progress and configuration versions. |
| Centralized configuration of PKI settings for the SSH Tectia client/server solution | Leverage the built-in Certification Authority or your existing third-party PKI solution (e.g. Entrust Authority) for SSH Tectia authentication by managing and deploying PKI configuration settings and CA certificates throughout your environment. |
Centralized Key and Authentication Management
| Built-in Certification Authority for host identity management | Manage your server host authentication with the built-in robust public-key infrastructure (PKI) with full certificate lifecycle management features for enrolling, renewing, and revoking X.509v3 host certificates. |
| Centralized (server) host public key distribution | If plain public key authentication is used instead of a full PKI, SSH Tectia Manager can be set to automatically distribute the server host public keys to the client hosts. This will avoid unnecessary "Host key has changed" notifications upon server installations and rebuilds. |
Auditing, Reporting and Environment Monitoring
| Administrator audit trail logging | Maintain an audit log of your administrator actions for troubleshooting and accountability. |
| Centralized SSH Tectia Server log gathering and viewing | Audit and troubleshoot your environment and operations with centralized gathering and archiving of SSH Tectia logs (user logins, unsuccessful login attempts, file transfer activity etc.). |
| Logging and alert support to third-party monitoring systems | SSH Tectia Server logs and SSH Tectia Manager logs can be pushed to syslog, for export to existing third-party monitoring and log analysis systems. |
| Flexible host views and grouping | Create multiple free-form host views and hierarchies, based on how your environment and IT operations are organized. |
| SSH Tectia Client for Windows tunnel statistics | Maintain an up-to-date view into the application tunnels configured in your SSH Tectia Client for Windows environment. |
| Automatic detection of SSH Tectia and other Secure Shell products | Detect, monitor and create reports of your installed Secure Shell products and versions. |
High Security and Scalability
| Role-based administrator right management | Assign and maintain granular administration privileges for your SSH Tectia Manager administrators, based on administrator and host groups. Enforce maker/checker policy for configuration management and deployment. |
| Administrator account authentication from LDAP and Active Directory | Retrieve SSH Tectia administrator authentication information from an existing directory and avoid maintaining passwords in several overlapping systems. |
| Encrypted and authenticated web-based administration interface | Use standard browsers to access SSH Tectia Manager administrator interface securely, with no Java or plug-ins required. Authenticate administrators with passwords or TLS client authentication. |
| Secure management connections | Upon installation, the Management Agent automatically contacts the Management Server and sets up an authenticated and encrypted management connection for host registration and management operations. |
| Host and configuration data stored in a built-in SQL database | The built-in SQL database provides easy installation and maintainability of SSH Tectia Manager, and a storage facility for host information, log archives, and SSH Tectia client/server configurations. |
| Distribution Servers for very large environment | Easily deployable small-footprint Distribution Servers can be set up for load sharing of management operations in large and distributed environments. |
