Users Guide

Additionally, you can now archive your repository data to the cloud using Microsoft Azure, Amazon S3, Rackspace Cloud Block
Storage, or other OpenStack-based cloud services.
Alerts and event management
In addition to HTTP REST API, your appliance also includes an extensive set of features for event logging and notification using
e-mail, Syslog, or Windows Event Log. email notifications can be used to alert users or groups of the health or status of
different events in response to an alert. The Syslog and Windows Event Log methods are used for centralized logging to a
repository in multi-operating system environment. In Windows-only environments, only the Windows Event Log is used.
License portal
The License Portal provides easy-to-use tools for managing license entitlements. You can download, activate, view, and manage
license keys and create a company profile to track your license assets. Additionally, the portal enables service providers and re-
sellers to track and manage their customer licenses.
Web console
Your appliance features a new web-based central console that manages distributed cores from one central location. MSPs and
enterprise customers with multiple distributed cores can deploy the central console to get a unified view for central
management. The central console provides the ability to organize the managed cores in hierarchical organizational units. These
organizational units can represent business units, locations, or customers for MSPs with role-based access. The central console
can also run reports across managed cores.
Service management APIs
Your appliance comes bundled with a service management API and provides programmatic access to all of the functionality
available through the Central Management Console. The service management API is a REST API. All the API operations are
performed over SSL and are mutually authenticated using X.509 v3 certificates. The management service can be accessed from
within the environment or directly over the Internet from any application that can send and receive an HTTPS request and
response. This approach facilitates easy integration with any web application such as relationship management methodology
(RMM) tools or billing systems. Also included is an SDK client for PowerShell scripting.
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Introduction to DL Appliance