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Title: Server Administration with InfraGuard
Keyword: Word Count: Instructions: Client: Tobias Abdon - InfraGuard
Server Administration with InfraGuard
Server administration at the core, in the simplest form, can be defined as:
“The overall control of servers. Designing, installing, administering, and overseeing their
performance and condition. Ensuring availability of client applications, configuring new
implementations, and developing procedures and processes for management of server
environment”
Suffice to say that there is a lot more to server administration than just a core concept.
The Challenge Of Server Administration
Utilizing cloud providers is comparatively simple for a veteran to set up a server, but providing
administration to the said servers is an entirely different concept that requires skills, expertise,
and time. To be exact, a lot of time. There is also a long list of nuances that come with server
administration:
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User Server Access (SSH/RDP) is mostly uncontrolled and unrestricted.
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Keys, once shared, are not audited. Key Management policies are absent.
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Patch Management solutions are complicated and intensive and separated from other
operations.
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Repetitive tasks take up a lot of time but implementing automation runs into hurdles. The
platforms of cloud providers are challenging to automate even simple tasks.
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SOPs are defined manually, and application-specific tasks take up a lot of time.
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Most enterprises have a mix of cloud providers, leading to engineers switching between
different platforms. It comes with training and efficiency costs.
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User management is far too intricate. A comparatively simple interface would solve both
management and security problems.
And these are only a few of the major points of concern. On top of all this, there are different
server types, each with its distinctive monitoring concept, server management practices, and
server administration roles.
Server administration with all these constraints is intensive, difficult, time-consuming, and
expensive.
In Search Of A Solution: InfraGuard
The final solution to all these problems is InfraGuard: a secure Server Management Application
that works with all cloud providers (including on-prem servers) to automate managed services &
standard processes, use policy controls to regulate access, and deliver a single interface to
manage your entire server infrastructure.
The four major services InfraGuard Offers and specializes in are:
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Patch Management
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Privileged Access Management
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Script Executions
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Application Management
These four solutions, provided by InfraGuard, are among those the implementation of which
constitute the biggest challenge faced by any organization.
As an Operating System and Cloud Provider agnostic solution, InfraGuard provides a fully
functional dashboard on top of your existing infrastructure from where you can visualize your
instances, take bulk actions, run scripts, manage updates and ensure policy compliances such
as key & password rotations.
The InfraGuard Process
InfraGuard starts by grouping servers in easily manageable projects, that allows the regulation
of who can access which server, and also what functions that person can perform there.
From that point onwards, you have two complementary flows to manage your service
operations:
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Manage Servers Individually or by Projects using:
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A Complete Admin Dashboard
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A Full-Featured Project Listing for Bulk Actions
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Detailed Individual Server Pages for more Direct Actions
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Script Inventory for managing scripts/commands
Policy-Driven Server Management extending:
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Key Management
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Patch Management
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Instance State Management
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Script Management
And this just the tip of the iceberg. InfraGuard is being used by large enterprises and Managed
Services Providers to manage hybrid infrastructures. New features are being added in the
roadmap continuously based on client feedback & requests.
Here is a heartwarming message from “Cloud Comrade” one of the many enterprises that use
InfraGuard for Server Administration.
“InfraGuard allows us to comply better with ISOcertification requirements and cloud platform
provider best practices by giving us greater control over compliance and process automation.
InfraGuard builds trust between our customers and Cloud Comrade as we are able to deliver
managed services in a far more secure manner on Cloud than many companies could ever
dream of having on-premise.”
~Andy Waroma, Cloud Comrade Pte Ltd
