Cloud
On-premise & data center
Active Directory, vCenter/vSphere, WinRM, networking, tunneling and hybrid.
- 0113 minActive Directory and LDAP in practiceintro
The basics of Active Directory: domain, forest, OU, groups and the LDAP protocol — and how ZEUS queries the directory with a paged search.
- 0212 minvCenter / vSphere — machine inventorycore
The basics of VMware virtualization: ESXi, vCenter, clusters and resource pools — and how ZEUS inventories machines through the vSphere API.
- 0312 minWinRM and managing the Windows fleetcore
How WinRM (Windows Remote Management) works, secure authentication and querying machines — and how ZEUS reads the state of Windows hosts.
- 0412 minOn-prem networking, VPN and tunnelingcore
Data center networking basics: VLANs, segmentation, site-to-site VPN, and SSH tunneling — the foundation of ZEUS's secure access.
- 0512 minHybrid: Azure Arc and connecting environmentsadvanced
How Azure Arc extends cloud management to on-prem machines and other clouds — and how hybrid fits into ZEUS's single security view.
- 0614 minZEUS on-premise: reverse-SSH tunnel + scanning AD/ADFS and LDAP, vCenter, WinRMadvanced
The full anatomy of the ZEUS on-prem connector: an outbound reverse-SSH tunnel, a paged scan of the full AD/ADFS and LDAP domain, vCenter and WinRM — all read-only.
Check your knowledge — quiz
5 questions · pass mark 80%. Score saved locally.
1.Why must the ZEUS connector use a paged search when reading an Active Directory domain?
2.Which LDAP protocol/port does ZEUS report as a security finding?
3.What role should the svc-zeus account have in vCenter to inventory the VM fleet?
4.Which SSH tunnel mode lets a collector behind NAT/firewall initiate the connection itself without opening an inbound port?
5.ZEUS reads the state of Windows hosts over WinRM — how does it guarantee no modifications?