About this User Guide

This user guide covers the Opengear Operation Manager products, including the OM2200 family of rack-mountable appliances (available with combinations of up to 48 serial ports and 24 Ethernet ports) and the OM1200 family of small form-factor appliances (available with combinations up to 8 serial and 8 Ethernet ports). This manual is up to date for the 20.Q2.0 firmware release. When using a minor release there may or may not be a specific version of the user guide for that release. The current Operations Manager user guide can always be found here.

GLOSSARY

Terms used in this guide to define elements and concepts are listed below.

Term	Definition
AAA	Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting is a framework for intelligently controlling access to computer resources, enforcing policies, and auditing usage.
Dark Mode	Changes the user interface to display mostly dark colors, reducing the light emitted by device screens.
Enrollment	Connecting a node to Lighthouse
Enrollment Bundle	Used to assign a number of tags to a set of nodes when they are enrolled. During enrollment, the bundle is specified using its name, and a bundle-specific enrollment token.
Enrolled Node	Node that has been connected to Lighthouse and is ready for use.
Enrollment Token	A password that authorizes the node with Lighthouse. Used when performing Node-based, or ZTP enrollment.
Light Mode	Changes the user interface to display mostly light colors. This is the default UI setting.
Lighthouse	System for accessing, managing and monitoring Opengear console servers.
Lighthouse Enterprise	Offers an elevated centralized management solution with additional functionality. It supports growing trends such as edge computing and SD-WAN with High Availability and Remote IP Access.
Lighthouse VPN	The OpenVPN based connections that the Lighthouse instance has with the nodes it is managing
LocalAuth (Radius/LDAP/AAA)	When this authentication option is selected, if local authentication fails, the unit tries to authenticate the user using a remote AAA server.
Node	A device that can be enrolled with Lighthouse, allowing it to be accessed, managed, and monitored. Currently, Opengear console servers are supported on a standard license, with support for other vendors Console Servers available as an add-on.
Pending Node	A node that has been connected to Lighthouse and has been configured with a VPN Tunnel, but which has not yet been approved for access, monitoring, or management. The approval operation can be automated by configuring Lighthouse to auto- approve nodes.
Role	A set of access rights for a particular group.
Smart Group	Dynamic filter used to search for particular nodes, or for defining the access rights of a group of users. Smart Groups use node properties, as well as tags defined by users.
Tag	User-defined attribute and value that is assigned to one or more nodes. Tags are used when creating Smart Groups for filtering views or access to nodes.