The icom Connectivity Suite - VPN is a service of INSYS icom for the simple and secure network connection of locations, plants, control centers and mobile devices via a Virtual Private Network.
What is a VPN?
A VPN is a communications environment in which access is controlled to permit peer connections only within a defined community of interest. It is constructed though some form of partitioning of a common underlying communications medium, where this underlying communications medium provides services to the network on a non-exclusive basis.
Test the VPN service from INSYS icom and proceed as described below. Two free licences allow you to test it in practice without obligation.
Register with the portal of the icom Connectivity Suite
Just follow this Configuration Guide.
Register your devices
Register all devices that are supposed to participate in your VPN network in the icom Connectivity Suite – VPN. The Devices of the VPN participants are differentiated between INSYS icom routers with icom OS, with INSYS OS and other third-party devices. These can be PCs, controls, cameras, other routers, etc. that support OpenVPN and are referred to as PC in summary in the icom Connectivity Suite – VPN.
In order to register an INSYS Router with icom OS, just follow this Configuration Guide.
In order to register an INSYS Router with INSYS OS, just follow this Configuration Guide.
In order to register a third-party device (e.g. Windows PC), just follow this Configuration Guide.
Configure your devices
In order for a device to act as a participant in the icom Connectivity Suite – VPN, it must first be configured for this purpose.
In order to configure an INSYS Router with icom OS, just follow this Configuration Guide.
In order to configure an INSYS Router with INSYS OS, just follow this Configuration Guide.
In order to register a Windows PC, just follow this Configuration Guide.
Order additional licences
Using the icom Connectivity Suite – VPN is bound to the purchase of VPN licences. The licences can be purchased directly in the icom Connectivity Suite - VPN.
Assign your licences to your devices
Each device that is supposed to participate in the icom Connectivity Suite – VPN requires a licence. Proceed as follows to assign a licence to your device.
Open the portal of the icom Connectivity Suite.
Click on the VPN → Licences page on the ID of the licence you want to assign to a device to open the detailed information regarding this licence.
Click under Assigned Device on Change licence device, select the device to which you want to assign this licence and click on CONFIRM.
The licence will be assigned to the selected device.
Change the name of your licences
The Licence Name is assigned by icom Connectivity Suite - VPN and can be changed for better distinguishability or clarity.
Click on the VPN → Licences page on the ID of the licence you want to rename to open the detailed information regarding this licence.
Click under Licence name on Change licence name, enter the desired name for this licence and click on CONFIRM.
The name of the licence will be changed.
Monitor the activities related to your licences
All activities, i.e. changes related to a licence, are logged.
Click on the VPN → Licences page on the ID of the licence of which you want to view the activity log to open the detailed information regarding this licence.
All activities related to this licence, are listed in the Activities field. For details in the table refer to Activities.