Provider appliance

Key features

The regify Provider Software Appliance can get described with the following key attributes:

1. Software appliance, based on a special CentOS 6 version, one of the most stable Linux distributions (comes as an ISO image).
2. Supports database replication (Master-Slave, Cross-Master) for full redundancy and high availability.
3. Offers easy SSL certificate generation and usage.
4. Fully supports all Sub-Provider features (handles multiple IP addresses).
5. Included database (MySQL and MariaDB as alternative).
6. Included Apache Webserver with PHP environment.
7. Included MTA (Mail Tranfer Agent) which is also usable as relay with a SmartHost.
8. Automatic time-synchronisation using NTP.
9. Fully supporting NAGIOS monitoring.
10. Supports external loadbalancers and SSL offloading.
11. Installs in less than 10 minutes.
12. Allows easy and automatic updates.
13. Does not need any andvanced Linux knowledge.

Real hardware or virtualized

The regify Provider Software Appliance can get installed on real hardware (given it is supported by CentOS6) or virtual machines.

Virtualization compatibility:

• VMWare ESX(i) servers (V4 to V5.5 and vSphere Hypervisor)
• VMWare Workstation (V5 and newer)
• Citrix XEN Server V6
  • Only supporting Hardware-assisted virtualization (HVM) mode
  • No Paravirtualization (PV) support
• Parallels Server V6 (Bare Metal)
  • Customers reported successful installation and running on Parallels server.

We have multiple success reports for the most recent version of Hyper-V. But currently it is not officially supportet.

We do not promise the compatibility to any virtualization technique available on the market. There is a good chance that it runs fine on many virtualization solutions, but there is no guarantee on that.

Hardware requirements

You can find the hardware requirements at the Hardware page.

Monitoring support

The regify provider software appliance offers you two kind of monitoring:

Nagios support

The regify provider software appliance gives you access to the standard NAGIOS client plugins. Here is a list of the plugins that are contained (regify provider V4 - 02/2015):

• nagios-plugins-cluster
• nagios-plugins-dig
• nagios-plugins-disk
• nagios-plugins-dns
• nagios-plugins-dummy
• nagios-plugins-file_age
• nagios-plugins-http
• nagios-plugins-icmp
• nagios-plugins-ide_smart
• nagios-plugins-ifoperstatus
• nagios-plugins-ifstatus
• nagios-plugins-linux_raid
• nagios-plugins-load
• nagios-plugins-log
• nagios-plugins-mailq
• nagios-plugins-memcheck
• nagios-plugins-mysql
• nagios-plugins-nrpe-2.14-5.rf.i386
• nagios-plugins-ntp
• nagios-plugins-perl
• nagios-plugins-ping
• nagios-plugins-procs
• nagios-plugins-smtp
• nagios-plugins-ssh
• nagios-plugins-swap
• nagios-plugins-tcp
• nagios-plugins-time
• nagios-plugins-users

The supported protocol is NRPE. The access is only available from the internal IP addresses.

Built-in monitoring script

The regify provider software appliance offers a dedicated HTTPS call to get information about the health of the regify provider. By calling this prepared URL, it returns either

• "OK"
• "WARNING: description"
• "ERROR: description"

This allows you to generate basic monitoring with no big efforts. This call is testing the following things:

• Clearing connection health?
• Is free disk space bigger than 300MB?
• Do we have working cryptography?
• How is internal database connectivity?
• Is the provider in maintenance mode?