bytemine manager - OpenVPN administration reloaded!
The bytemine manager is a platform independant, open source Java Desktop application manage easily and intuitively your OpenVPN concentrators and bytemine openbsd appliances.
Released under the BSD-license the bytemine manager source code is available on github.
Further downloads, such as binary packages for Windows systems, can be downloaded on our download page.
Commercial support for OpenVPN as well as the bytemine manager are available from bytemine. Of course we offer customization of the bytemine manager for your needs as well.
The product sheet for the bytemine manager as pdf.
The bytemine manager offers the following functions:
- OpenVPN certificate and user management
- platform independent, multilingual Java desktop-application
- synchronisation of multiple OpenVPN servers
- import of users and certificates from existing OpenVPN or from LDAP directories
- reporting of detailed connection information per OpenVPN server
- realtime view of the OpenVPN logfiles
- individual termination of OpenVPN connections
- secure OpenVPN server administration via SecureShell (ssh) tunneling
- OpenVPN server platform independent - any OpenVPN server can be managed
- Available as source-code, licensed under the bsd-license
Modular bytemine manager architectur
The bytemine manager consists of two modules, which can be used independently from each other.
- User- and certificate management
- Control center
User- and certificate management
Traditionally one states, that user- and certificate management of a VPN should be detached from the network. Thinking of this statement this module of the bytemine manager has been implemented. User and certificate data can be either copied to the concentrator via SCP or exported to filesystem.
Existing user and certificate data can easily be imported using a wizard, either from filesystem or LDAP directory.
Control center
The Control center module is able to display current connection of OpenVPN concentrators. For each, in the bytemine manager configured, OpenVPN server the Control center module can be started seperately. Despite of displaying connection data (data transfer in- and outbound per user) status and log information of the OpenVPN concentrator are accessible.
Secure administration
Communication with the OpenVPN server is done via the Unix domain interface, which has been introduced in version 2.1RC13 of OpenVPN. Therefor the bytemine manager is calling a socket wrapper (shipped with the bytemine manager) using a Secure Shell connection. As a result the whole communication with a OpenVPN server is encrypted and using a secure authentication method (SSH with key-based authentication).
The socket wrapper is available for different Linux and Unix variations and is a component of the bytemine openbsd appliance. You can download it from our download page.
OpenVPN is a registered trademark of OpenVPN Technologies, Inc.
