¶ Login
Admin interface using Defend-O-Tron DNS: https://defend-o-tron.protected.lan:9090
Admin interface without DNS: https://X.X.X.X:9090 (X.X.X.X represents the management IP address of the device)
Configuring the built-in DNS is the preferred method to browse securely to the Defend-O-Tron.
¶ First time login
The default username and password are: admin/admin
- You will be required to change your password before continuing.
Upon sucessful logon you'll proceed to the overview section.
¶ System Section
¶ Overview
The Defend-O-Tron administration interface is a customized version of Cockpit. Only the necessary packages have been installed to manage the device.
Installing additional Cockpit modules on the dashboard is not recommended, as it consumes extra resources and may cause your Defend-O-Tron to run into performance issues.
This overview allows you to preview system health, system information, usage statistics, and basic configuration. You can Reboot and Shutdown the device from the Overview page as well, this is the recommended way to safely restart the device.
¶ Panels
Each panel gives you overview information on various system components.
- Health provides information on software updates and authentication
Click the View login history for additional information - Usage provided information on hardware and network statistics
Click the View Metrics and history link for additional information - System information provides the uptime and your unique Defend-O-Tron identifier
- Configuration reports on hostname, timezone and cpu performance governor.
Secure shell fingerprint keys are unique to each device.
The performance profile is pre-configured for the best device performance, and it is not recommended to change this setting.
Changing the Hostname or installing Realmd will break certain functionality of the Defend-O-Tron. You've been warned.
¶ Timezone
- The default timezone for the Defend-O-Tron is UTC +00
You can set the local device timezone by clicking on the System time link in the configuration panel and choosing a timezone.
Click the Change button to finish the timezone change.
¶ Metrics
Provides a realtime and detailed overview of CPU, Memory, Disk and Network activity.
The Performance Co-Pilot is not pre-installed, please dont. This option will be removed and is now replaced with comprehensive system statistics in the dashboards
¶ Logs
¶ Accounts
¶ Services
¶ Tools Section
¶ Root CA
The Defend-O-Tron has a built in CA public certificate that you can export for use in the following:
- Fully secure web interface HTTPS with DNS
- Fully secure Crowdsec API for remote bouncer
- Fully secure syslog forwarding (in next version)
Setup instructions are here.
¶ Software Updates
The Defend-O-Tron has built in automatic software update notifications. There will be a 
symbol beside the Software updates menu item if there urgent updates you need to process.
¶ Terminal
The built in terminal provides command level shell access to the Defend-O-Tron similar to an SSH session without the need to leave the administration interface. The default Linux shell for user admin is ZSH, an open source shell alternative that allows intuitive input and command completion.
This interface is primarily used to access the Crowdsec CSCLI commands until they are incorporated into the web interface.
You can access Linux commands here as well, such as nano, sudo and htop
Using the cscli command with no parameters will by default display the Crowdsec Metrics
¶ Extra Status Pages
The extra system status interfaces along with the Grafana dashboard can only be accessed with use of the Defend-O-Tron DNS either on your LAN or workstation.
¶ Traefik Status Dashboard
Located at https://traefik.protected.lan
¶ Timeseries Metrics Web UI
Located at https://dashboard.protected.lan