Lighthouse Software
Visibility Across Your Network Resilience Platform
Lighthouse offers simplified initial setup, scalable management, and secure access to your IT infrastructure. Now with a re-architected UI, it delivers a fresh look and an improved user experience.
Deployed across enterprise data centers, campus, branch, and edge locations, Lighthouse serves as the single point of reference and is the control and convenience center of Opengear’s Network Resilience Platform.
Lighthouse enhances your Network and IT Operations with these benefits:
Simplified initial setup and daily operations
Save time and money by enabling configuration remotely with Zero Touch Provisioning.
Increased security, control, and convenience
Create a management network enabling aggregation and reduce the time and administrative overhead.
Interconnectivity and end-point visibility
Gain the flexibility that comes with more interfaces to connect. Lighthouse offers a complete view and access to your connected physical and virtual resources.
Lighthouse is available in Enterprise and Automation Edition.
Lighthouse Enterprise: Automation Edition
This premium edition includes all the features of the Enterprise Edition, plus access to additional advanced capabilities like Smart Management Fabric™ (SMF) and the Connected Resource Gateway (CRG).
It assists network engineers, system administrators, and IT infrastructure teams by streamlining operations of the out of band management network and IT infrastructure.
Smart Management Fabric (SMF):
Taking Out-of-Band Management to the Next Level for Streamlined IT Operations
Smart Management Fabric (SMF) takes Opengear’s Smart Out of Band™ solution to the next level by delivering an overlay network that simplifies your overall IT operations. With seamless access to IP endpoints, SMF breaks down traditional IT silos, empowering the entire IT organization.
Benefits:
Expand your networking capabilities: Elevate your Smart Out-of-Band solution with an overlay network, enhancing value and functionality.
Keep sensitive info safe: Secure access and provision your connected resources while safeguarding sensitive information.
Scale effortlessly: Enable seamless connectivity between users, machines, and third-party resources, allowing for effortless scalability.
Connected Resource Gateway (CRG):
Bringing simplicity, flexibility, and scalability to your IT infrastructure
Connected Resource Gateway (CRG) expands Opengear’s network resilience platform beyond serial connectivity, providing a secure gateway function that acts as a critical entry and exit point between network management tools, users, and third-party endpoints.
Benefits:
Streamline access: Simplified access to your connected resources—serial or IP—through the web using only an internet connection.
Precise Security: Minimize unauthorized access risk and potential access-based security breaches with precise and flexible access management
Boost Productivity: Save time with clientless access, eliminating the need to update or manage software and reducing admin overhead
Lighthouse Service Portal (LSP):
Day 0/1 Made Easy with Zero Touch Provisioning
Zero-touch provisioning helps you move from smart hands and manual processes to smarter, automated capabilities.
The Lighthouse Service Portal (LSP) offers zero-touch provisioning to automate the initial set up of Opengear appliances and establish an out of band management network, bringing connected network resources online, ready to function.
Time and Cost Savings: LSP simplifies the provisioning of Opengear appliances at scale, reducing the time and effort required during initial setup and minimizing the need for manual intervention.
Improved Scalability: As your IT deployments grow, LSP provides a scalable zero-touch provisioning solution that accelerates setup without increasing administrative overhead, ensuring your equipment is ready for use faster.
Secure Deployments: Config files contain sensitive information, and using USB sticks with third-party engineers can be risky. With LSP, you get an end-to-end secure deployment process that keeps your critical data safe.
Navigate Your Network
Get unparalleled visibility of distributed networks through a single pane of control. Designed with security, scalability and automation in mind.
Lighthouse Enterprise
Ready-made for everyday use with multi-instance capabilities providing the resiliency and redundancy needed for evolving networks. Providing presence and proximity to critical devices, engineers can control every aspect of their network through a central hub. Each subscription allows for up to 11 total Lighthouse instances (primary and 10 secondaries), provides IP Access everywhere, for each node and enables access to MessageBus, plug-ins and 3rd party systems.
Lighthouse Enterprise: Automation Edition
This advanced offering provides users with additional functionality needed for automation and operation. The expanded automation edition contains all the features of Lighthouse Enterprise – it also includes Automation Gateway and Secure Provisioning for every node.
“Today’s security conscious businesses simply cannot permit unmanaged OOB access to critical devices. Lighthouse from Opengear provides the perfect solution”
– Network Computing Magazine Product Review
Features
Lighthouse Enterprise: Automation Edition
All the features of Lighthouse Enterprise, now enhanced with new advanced offerings Smart Management Fabric (SMF) and Connected Resource Gateway (CRG).
With these latest innovations, Lighthouse evolves Opengear’s Network Resilience Platform, setting a new standard in out of band management network.
SMF extends the value and functionality of Opengear’s Smart Out of Band solution by enabling an overlay network.
SMF makes Opengear’s network resilience platform valuable for the whole IT organization, from network engineers and system admins to support staff who need access to IP-based resources.
CRG is a secure gateway and a network function that interconnects network management tools, users, and third-party endpoints. It seamlessly integrates with Opengear’s Smart Management Fabric (SMF), ensuring a dependable link between network management tools, users, and managed endpoints.
Awards & Recognition:
Lighthouse Enterprise
- Scalability: Lighthouse is designed with growth in mind, from a few nodes to running “at-scale” in enterprise or hyper-scale environments
- Security: Added security and controls with integrated authentication via SAML and AAA systems.
- Third Party Integrations: Lighthouse uses functionality that allows integrations with 3rd party systems for notifications and alerts
- IP Access: Provides centralized, secure access to remote IP networks reachable by nodes.
How to Purchase
Subscription Details
The new Lighthouse licensing model provides better customer experience, streamlined purchasing, and flexible consumption. With the new model, you can choose between multiple packs of licenses for the managed nodes based on the size and needs of your infrastructure. Buy now from an authorized Opengear reseller.
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Announcement:
Lighthouse supports mixed licensing environments. Our customers can simultaneously use their different Lighthouse licenses and assign them nodes of their choice. Please reach out to your Regional Sales Manager for further information or questions.