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Overview & concepts

Auditix is a platform to audit, inventory and monitor network equipment. You install it on your own server, give it a licence, and describe the equipment you work with: who makes it, which models exist, and how Auditix reaches each of them (SNMP, SSH or Telnet, with the right credentials). Packages from the Auditix marketplace can bring that knowledge ready-made, as plugins.

This page explains the few ideas the rest of the guide relies on.

Tenants

Section titled “Tenants”

A tenant is an isolated organization inside one Auditix installation: a company, a customer, a site. Each tenant has its own members, roles, settings, audit log and data. What happens in one tenant is never visible from another.

  • Accounts are global. One person has one account and can be a member of several tenants, with different roles in each.
  • You work in one tenant at a time. The tenant switcher of the top bar shows where you are and lets you move to another tenant (see The interface).
  • How many tenants an installation may hold depends on its licence. With a single-tenant licence (Community, Enterprise), there is one tenant and no tenant switcher at all.

The platform view

Section titled “The platform view”

Platform administrators manage the installation itself: its settings, every account and every tenant. They can enter any tenant, and they also have a place of their own outside any tenant: the platform view, shown as Platform at the top of the tenant switcher.

The dashboard of the platform view, listing every tenant of the instance

In the platform view, the menu is short: the platform Dashboard (every tenant, with a Manage button for each) and Node management, where platform administrators manage the manufacturers, models and profiles shared with every tenant. Inside a tenant, the menu shows everything the tenant holds.

The menu inside the tenant Northwind Traders

Where an item comes from: its origin

Section titled “Where an item comes from: its origin”

Manufacturers, models and profiles carry an Origin, shown as a column in every list and on the page of each item:

Platform

Created in the platform view by a platform administrator. Shared with every tenant, which sees it read-only beside its own items.

Tenant

Created inside a tenant. It belongs to that tenant only, and its members with the right permissions can change or delete it.

Plugin

Installed by a marketplace package. The column shows the package and its publisher (“Network vendors by Auditix”). It follows its package and cannot be changed by hand.

Models seen from a tenant: shared by the platform, installed by a package, and the tenant’s own

An item you cannot change opens read-only, with a message saying why, for example:

  • Shared by the platform with every tenant: it can only be changed from the platform view.
  • Installed by the package Network vendors by Auditix: it follows its package and cannot be changed here.

For SNMP and CLI profiles and for profiles you cannot change, a tenant can still set its own credentials and values: see Shared items & overrides.

Next steps

Section titled “Next steps”
Signing inSign in, choose your password and sign out.
The interfaceMenus, tenant switcher, language, theme, notifications and assistant.
Installation & upgradesRun Auditix on your own server and activate its licence.
Node managementManufacturers, models, SNMP and CLI profiles.