Managing remote access in offline environments, and doing so in a truly secure way, comes with its own set of challenges and headaches. You will need tight control of who connects to what, device visibility, and simple licensing. And you will need all this without outside connectivity. The On-Prem Management Console gives you a centralized place to manage your on-premises deployment of RealVNC Connect that runs entirely within your network.
As mentioned above, the RealVNC On-Prem Management Console runs on your network only. It is a centralized place to manage your RealVNC deployment. We’ll be looking at a few scenarios in which this new tool will prove invaluable. Not only that, but we’ll also provide you with a useful video walkthrough, allowing you to easily turn them into a reality.
A Quick Health Check of the Environment
Is it ever only that? Of course it’s not, but that’s how things generally start. It’s a Monday morning and you just want to check what the environment looks like. Rather than piecing together all the information from various sources, the Dashboard gives it all to you on a single screen.
You can see license usage, devices which are active and dormant, session counts, as well as how used your subscription is. If you are an IT admin that manages thousands of endpoints, this is priceless, and it means faster decisions, with fewer surprises. Also, should usage be creeping close to your usage limit, you’ll know it, and you’ll be able to act on it before it becomes a problem.
A Staff Member Left, We Need to Tidy Up
Access needs to keep up with things like people moving on, or roles changing (together with their permissions and required resources). Either way, the last thing you want is for their credentials to remain there and become a security issue. You also don’t want to have their machine holding on to a license you could assign elsewhere, saving costs in the process.
The console makes it easy to sort these things out. You can remove users if they don’t need access anymore; you can also de-license a device quickly, without uninstalling anything.
You can even create new users in bulk, via CSV upload, instead of one by one. It all leads to cleaner administrations and less manual work.
Who Accessed That, and When?
In sensitive environments, visibility is a must-have. And security incidents, or just basic human mistakes, happen. To prevent them from happening again, or if an auditor or your security team ask who connected to the CNC machine and changed the settings on Tuesday night, you need an answer quickly.
Audit logs give you real-time records of key activity: when connections started, whether authentication succeeded, and when sessions ended. You can search the history by date or event type, drill into individual events, and export records as a CSV file when you need to share them or file them for compliance. As users sign in with individual credentials, every connection ties back to a named person.
Zones, for Segmented Networks
Not every network is flat. Not every organisation wants all their devices talking to each other. And not all topologies are simple.
If you have stricter rules for how traffic flows, or if the topology is a complex one, you can use Zones with the On-Prem Management Console. You can create these as needed and edit them as you go along and your network evolves. This allows you to deploy on your own terms.
Lots of Licenses and Endpoints
When you have lots of endpoints in an offline environment, licensing tends to be a tedious task. It often means that you have to deploy a license across every RealVNC Server. And the more you have, the more complex the task becomes.
Licensing is held centrally with the On-Prem Management Console, so you just upload the license key in one place. Devices then get their information when they check in. If you renewed the license, just deploy it centrally and you’re done.
Bringing Things Together
The On-Prem Management Console is a centralized control layer that gives you visibility, accountability, deployment flexibility, and simpler licensing, all within your own network. For IT admins and decision-makers running secure or offline deployments, that’s less overhead and stronger control.
Want to see it in action? The video walkthrough above takes you through the console step by step. When you’re ready to explore what it could do for your environment, request a demo or get in touch with our team.
