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Learn how to install the different product components, set up overlays, and configure device trust in six simple steps.
Tempered Networks™ client solutions let you securely connect managed endpoints, such as laptops, PCs, tablets, and smartphones.
Tempered Networks components require that certain conditions exist on your network before proceeding with installation and configuration.
Everything you need to know about licensing your Conductor and HIPservices.
To set up a Conductor for the first time, you need to configure a few basic settings. After completing the following, you can connect the Conductor to your underlay.
The Settings page contains many configurable options to help you customize Conductor behavior to support your environment.
Before you begin installing your HIPswitch, ensure that you already have the Conductor installed and configured. After you are finished installing your HIPswitch, you can begin connecting devices.
A cloud-based HIPswitch provides host-to-host peering between Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Plaform (GCP), and on-premises assets and simplifies the process of managing them.
High Availability (HA) HIPswitches provide hardware redundancy in a hot-standby mode. HIPswitches installed in an HA configuration maintain a heartbeat on a dedicated Ethernet link where only the current primary HIPswitch is participating in overlay network communications. If the primary HIPswitch fails to send heartbeat messages to the secondary, the secondary takes over overlay network communications for the HA pair.
HIPswitches that have a console port can accept several login names as commands. This can be either a serial console on the virtual console, cloud platform, or VMWare.
You can configure a HIPswitch to use a single network connection in cases where you want to prevent common routing errors caused by multiple interfaces.
Network Address Translation (NAT) translates an IP address in one network to a different IP address in another network. The two IP addresses are referred to as the External IP address and the Internal IP address. The External IP address is the IP address of the device in the overlay network and the Internal IP address is the actual IP address of the device.
You can change the encryption or compression of HIPswitches.
You can configure static routing for protected devices with IP addresses not directly connected to a HIPswitch.
You can enable and configure different types of routing between a HIPswitch and a protected device. The guidance here tells how to use DHCP.
Each HIPswitch has a Stateful Packet Inspection (SPI) Firewall that can be configured in the Conductor. Communications from remote devices behind remote HIPswitches are incoming connections. When the HIPswitch firewall is enabled, all incoming communications coming from remote HIPswitches are blocked by default, unless they are related to an already established session from a local device behind the local HIPswitch.
The HIPswitch firewall operates on the principle of network whitelisting. Once the firewall is enabled, custom rules determine what communications are passed by the local HIPswitch as incoming connections to local devices. If a local device is a server, and the firewall is enabled, custom rules are required to allow incoming connections to the local server.
As you prepare to connect devices to HIPswitches, you may want your HIPswitch product guide available to identify the ports reserved for connecting devices you want to protect.
The steps to create an overlay network are simple, but there are a few tasks you need to validate are complete before you begin.
Only users with system administrator privileges can configure device trust for an overlay network. From Overlays, select the overlay network you want to set up communications policies for, which brings up the list of devices and device groups that belong to the overlay in the Devices tab.
Learn how to use the different product features, such as Smart Device Groups, HIPrelay, or events and alerts.
There are various tools available on our platform to help you diagnose problems you may encounter.
Get printable PDF copies of various topics included in the online documentation. New documents are added periodically, so check back often for additional downloads.
Advisories and Bulletins provide important information, such as security vulnerabilities, end-of-life notices, and other product updates.
Release notes track incremental improvements and major releases for the Tempered Networks Solution, software applications, and our physical, virtual, and cloud platforms.
Links to our firmware, software, hotfixes, and hardware installation guides.
