Central administration in openFT covers the functions remote administration and ADM traps. On Unix and Windows systems, openFT provides full support for both functions.
These functions offer considerable benefits if you want to administer and monitor a large number of openFT instances. These benefits include:
Simple configuration
The configuration data is maintained centrally on the remote administration server, which means that it only exists once. The creation of roles in the form of remote administrators and the grouping of several instances make it possible to implement even complex configurations simply and in a clearly structured way. Subsequent changes are simple to incorporate and thus make the configuration easy to maintain.
The remote administration server runs on either a Unix or a Windows system.
Simplified authentication procedure
If you wish to use authentication for reasons of security, it is only necessary to distribute a few keys:
For the direction to the remote administration server, the keys of computers from which administration is to be performed must be stored on the remote administration server.
For the direction from the remote administration server to the instances to be administered, it is only necessary to store the public key of the remote administration server on the openFT instances to be administered.
High performance
The remote administration interface allows far longer command sequences than in openFT up to V10.0.
In addition, it is possible to configure the remote administration server in such a way that it is available exclusively for remote administration. In this case, there is no dependency on normal FT operation and hence no mutual impact.
Simple administration
Remote administrators only need one (central) transfer admission. Without central administration, remote administrators have to remember the access data for each openFT instance to be administered.
Central logging of important events
ADM traps can be generated if certain events occur on openFT instances. These are sent to the (central) ADM trap server and stored permanently there. This allows remote administrators to evaluate important events at a later time and for specific instances.
Compatible integration of earlier openFT versions
Instances running versions of openFT as of V8.0 can simply be added to the configuration and administered in the same way as instances as of V11.0. All the administration functions offered by the corresponding openFT version can be used.