Lighthouse Overview

Lighthouse allows you to centrally access, manage, and monitor a network of Opengear console servers. With the Automation Edition, you can access the Smart Management Fabric (SMF) feature to monitor resources in your network. Lighthouse is a virtual machine that can be hosted on various platforms like VMware or Hyper-V (on customer hardware) or on supported cloud providers (AWS or Azure).

Console servers connect to a central Lighthouse instance over an OpenVPN tunnel, and are accessed, managed, and monitored via services transported over the VPN tunnel. The console server is referred to as the node.