Overview:
AMP (Array Management Platform) provides comprehensive monitoring and management of Array Networks APV/vAPV application delivery controllers and AG/vxAG secure access gateways, providing deep visibility into traffic patterns and user behavior, simplifying management and providing a central point of control. Powered by the service-oriented and usercentric AMP web user interface (WebUI), administrators can easily monitor, manage, configure and upgrade multiple Array Networks products from a single, central console. AMP’s analysis capabilities also enable administrators to collect, audit and analyze user behavior and server usage information to quickly spot trends that can impact performance and security.
Highlights & Benefits
- Monitors and manages up to 100 Array Networks ADC or SSL VPN instances, whether running as dedicated hardware appliances or as virtual appliances (VAs) running in virtual environments
- Graphical and intuitive dashboard offers an at-aglance view of monitored devices, services, tasks and alerts
- Concurrent monitoring of all managed devices, added services and the AMP system for overall device and service status, allowing at-a-glance visualization of trends and performance issues
- Statistics on user accesses to Layer 3 and Layer 7 services, user behavior logs on logins/logouts and session-related statistics for analysis and audit purposes
- Provides single-click access to any managed device’s virtual console link, allowing quick and easy access to the device’s WebUI or Web Console
- Supports device grouping to allow logical organization of managed devices
- Automatic or manual back-up of configurations from managed devices, with version control and roll-back if needed
- Stores software images locally and allows remote updating of a single device or an entire device group, streamlining the update process
- Supports batch processing for AG/vxAG SSL VPN appliances’ common configurations, allowing role, ACL, VPN and custom configurations to be stored and distributed across multiple devices
- Compliance check function allows viewing of differences between selected backup file and target device’s configuration
- Configuration templates can be created, edited and applied to one or more devices, saving time and ensuring consistency
- Asynchronous task management allows upgrades and configuration changes to run in the background, with status reporting and auto-restart if task is interrupted
- Alerts for managed devices based on thresholds, and historical alert view
- Runs as a VA on CentOS in standard virtualized environments
Features:
Comprehensive Monitoring
AMP provides real-time visibility into managed devices and their associated services, as well as AMP itself, with the ability to alert based upon thresholds. Device monitoring displays statistics such as network traffic, CPU usage, and memory usage. In addition, for managed AG/vxAG SSL VPN appliances, AMP can display the number of users currently logged in as well as login time, device type and version, and login method.
Service monitoring displays the real-time statistics of associated services on the devices, including server load balancing and SSL VPN to allow quick identification of performance and security issues.
Through the Alerts module, administrators can set thresholds for CPU, memory and disk usage on managed devices. Previous alerts are stored in a Historical Alerts page for future reference.
Log Audit and Statistics Analysis
For AG/vxAG SSL VPNs, AMP provides extensive logging of user and server statistics. User behavior can be audited based on logs of login/logout time, endpoint information, method, sent/received traffic, and session duration.
AMP also logs information regarding user sessions, including Layer-3 accesses with time, source IP, server IP, port, protocol type and sent/received traffic. For Layer-7 accesses, the time, server, URL and status are recorded. User and system logs can be used for forensic support and root cause analysis.
Simplified and Efficient Management
AMP streamlines and simplifies management, configuration, updating and monitoring of up to 100 combined Array APV Series or AG Series dedicated or virtual appliances in local or distributed data centers. In addition, license management allows viewing and application of licenses to individual managed devices. The AMP dashboard is designed with IT administrators in mind, and features graphical representations of system statistics for easy visualization. In addition, the dashboard provides centralized access to AMP management operations and toolkits, as well as to managed devices for quick access to their respective WebUIs or Web Consoles.
Hardware-based appliances, VAs or a mixture of appliance types can be logically organized into groups for ease of management, monitoring, configuration and updating.
Configure and Update Managed Devices with Ease
As devices are added to AMP, their respective configurations are automatically backed up and stored in local memory. In addition, configuration files can be manually backed up at any time, and multiple configurations for a given device can be stored in a version or history trail.
Configuration templates can be created and edited from stored configuration files. A configuration template can then be applied to one or more devices. For AG/ vxAG SSL VPN dedicated appliances or VAs, AMP supports batch processing of role, ACL, VPN and custom configurations to be applied to one or more SSL VPN services for consistent policy across devices.
AMP also offers software image management with a local store of up to 15 images. Once images have been stored, with just a few clicks in the dashboard administrators can upgrade a single device or an entire device group. Images can also be deleted when they become outdated. Managed devices’ licenses can also be viewed and imported.
For audit and verification purposes, AMP supports compliance checking, which analyzes and displays differences between a selected configuration backup file and the target device’s running configuration.
Task Management
Many operations that administrators perform through AMP, such as software upgrades and application of configuration templates, are performed in asynchronous mode and are completed in the background by AMP.
A task management tab provides done, failed, waiting and ongoing statuses on all scheduled tasks.
If AMP is rebooted for any reason, the system will check for unfinished tasks and if any exist, it will continue processing the tasks to completion.
Specifications:
Supported Hypervisors (64-bit only)
Runs on CentOS on any hypervisor
Virtual Machine Requirements
Requires Minimum:
- 4 Virtual CPUs
- 1 Virtual Network Adapter
- 4GB RAM
- 64GB Disk
