Application Console
Centralized management for installations/deployments/enhancements of customer security products
Main Features
- Client Tracking
- View actual installations and client-utilized functionality
- View detailed information about any specific installation
- Aggregated summary view of client environments and product features
- Licensing
- Support for multiple types of free, trial, and commercial licenses
- Integrate with eCommerce portals to sell products
- Activate and terminate client installations automatically
- Control execution of licensing terms and conditions
- Messaging
- Distribute notifications to clients that may be of interested to them
- Update client installation parameters
Other Console Features
Below are some of the features of the Application Console:
- Web interface to access the Application Console
- Web services to script frequently used administrative scenarios
- Sophisticated security model with granular permissions that restrict console functions, operations, records
- Audit trail is included for all records for change control
- Flexible security allows clients to work directly via the console to perform centralized administration of their applications
- Remote control with built-in scheduling to allow administrators to manage a client installation remotely (requires an automation interface in the customer product)
- Data collection and data publication to exchange large amounts of information between the console and clients in an efficient way
- A centralized place to work with client contacts that are known to the console
- And many other features
Deployment Options
- Pay as you go, SaaS model
- The Application Console is hosted at supplier side
- Dedicated hosting
- The Application Console is hosted on a dedicated hardware at supplier side
- Isolated hosting
- The Application Console is hosted at a customer side
System Requirements
Server-side application console requirements (for hosted deployments only):
- Main application: Java EE 6 under JBoss Application Server
- Infrastructure components: Python 2.4+ under nginx web server
- Database storage: PostgreSQL 7.3+
- Supported operating systems: i386/amd64 FreeBSD 7-8, Linux 2.6.*
- Hardware requirements for 1,000,000 clients:
- CPU: 4x 2.0GHz (Intel Quad Core XEON is preferred)
- RAM: 16GB
- HDD: 4x 140GB SAS
- Network: 10MBit/sec
Client-side SDK:
- Interface: COM API under Windows, Sun RPC under UNIX/Linux
- Supported operating systems:
- 32-bit Windows XP SP2 and later
- 64-bit Windows Server 2003 SP1 and later
- i386/amd64 FreeBSD 7-8, Linux 2.6.*
Case Study
- Customer: A vendor that has security Windows products distributed world wide via direct, OEM and Internet sales
- Deployment option: Dedicated hosting
- In production: Since 1st quarter of 2009
- # of products: approx. 10
- # of installations: approx. 2,000,000
- # of licenses: approx. 900,000
- Environment: FreeBSD 8, Java 6, Python 2.5, PostgreSQL 7.4
- Resource consumption: 100GB HDD, 2x2GHz CPU, 4GB RAM
- ~25% load of the dedicated hardware
- Network utilization: <1Mbit/sec, 500 requests/second
- System availability: 99.997% for years 2009, 2010, 2011
Further Information
Product demonstrations can be arranged on request. Please contact sales@zorallabs.com for more details
