All CacheGuard appliances run under an appliance oriented OS called CacheGuard-OS. CacheGuard-OS is open source and free of charge in its BYOL version for up to 10 protected users and/or 5 simultaneous users of protected Web applications. The OS has been rigorously and securely built from scratch around a Linux kernel and strictly embed programs that are actually needed. While more than 100 000 lines of open source code had been developed to build CacheGuard-OS, the OS embeds very well-known and open source technologies provided by the open source community. CacheGuard-OS is a consistent merge of multiple technologies in order to offer a powerful, robust and easy to handle solution.

If you are a system administrator looking for a powerful, but easy to handle solution to secure and/or optimize your networks, CacheGuard Gateway is for you. CacheGuard Gateway can be configured and managed with the help of a CLI (Command Line Interface) and/or a Web GUI (Graphical User Interface). CacheGuard products are provided with full online and offline documentation. Our active and responsive technical forum https://help.cacheguard.net/, allows you to find answers to your questions as quickly as possible. Learn more at https://www.cacheguard.com/.

You can manage your CacheGuard Gateway via its Web GUI at https://[cacheguard-public-ip]:8090
or via SSH. By default, CacheGuard Gateway on Azure uses two distinct public IP addresses: one external public IP used for outgoing traffic to the internet and one internal public IP used for incoming connections to its embedded Web proxy on the TCP port 8080. If from the same local public IP address you manage AND use your CacheGuard Gateway (as a Web proxy), your CacheGuard Gateway will be accessible only on its internal public IP address from that local public IP address.

CacheGuard Gateway is provided with full online and offline documentation that include a User’s Guide and a Command Line Manual. You can find the CacheGuard Documentation via CacheGuard administration interfaces (Console, SSH and HTTPS) or online on the Web.

You can monitor the health of a CacheGuard Gateway either by inspecting the reports that are made available via its Web GUI or by using the “system report” command line. In addition, CacheGuard Gateway supports SNMP and the syslog protocol.