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Vantage documentation
Vantage manages a fleet of servers from one place: SSH keys, scripted workflows, service monitoring, a secrets vault, browser consoles and OS updates. Run it yourself, or let us run it for you.
A central server drives a lightweight agent installed on each managed machine. The agent connects outbound only, so managed servers need no inbound firewall holes.
Where to start
| If you want to | Read |
|---|---|
| Understand what the pieces are | What is Vantage |
| Decide who should run it | Cloud or self-hosted |
| Run it on your own hardware | Self-hosted install |
| Licence a self-hosted install | Claim a Free licence |
| Enrol your first machine | Add your first server |
| Manage your account, licence or billing | Vantage HQ |
| Look something up | Reference |
The two products
Vantage is the control plane, the thing you sign in to in order to manage servers. It runs either on your own infrastructure or as a cloud instance we run for you.
Vantage HQ is the portal at vantage-hq.hostxtra.co.uk where you manage the
account behind those instances: who is on your team, which instances exist, what
licence each one holds and how it is billed. HQ never manages your servers, and
a Vantage instance never depends on HQ being reachable in order to run.