This KB provides guidelines on how to log in to the BitRaser Cloud Console to download ISO files for Drive, Mobile, Hardware Diagnostics, Drive Verifier, etc., create users, and manage various reports and certificates.
The cloud console provides functionality of ISO customization that helps organizations automate the data erasure process, boost efficiency, and maintain a centralized repository of erasure and diagnostics to meet compliance. The secure cloud console helps businesses standardize the erasure process across locations with minimal effort. Moreover, admins can create and edit users, assign roles, and manage them to perform data erasure or diagnostics tasks. It also allows round-the-clock access to a centralized repository of erasure reports and certificates for audit purposes.
How to Login to BitRaser Cloud Console?
Post purchase, log in to https://www.bitrasercloud.com/.
You will receive login credentials for BitRaser Cloud Console on your registered email ID. Follow the link to change your password, and you are ready to start using the BitRaser Cloud Console. The cloud console supports Email Authentication via OTP. By default, it is set as 'Inactive', but as an admin, you can change it to 'Active' via 'Settings' (Refer to Image 1).
Image 1: Email Authentication - Settings Screen
How to Use BitRaser Cloud Console?
There are various tabs on the left pane of the BitRaser Cloud Console. These are My Dashboard, Users & Licenses, Reports, Download BitRaser, Create Custom ISO, Autopilot/MDM, Help Manual, and Settings. Let us discuss the functionality of each one.
My Dashboard
This is the default option of your BitRaser Cloud Console home screen. ‘My Dashboard’ contains information about your last recharge of licenses for various BitRaser products and shows available and consumed licenses. There is an option to edit the dashboard and to add or remove widgets. By default, the cloud console shows a ‘Graph’ view. However, you can change it to a ‘List’ view per your requirement. In the List view, consumed and available licenses are shown product-wise, and recharge history is shown date-wise. You need these licenses to erase data from a device or run mobile diagnostics. These licenses are consumed when the user performs an erasure or diagnostic task; 1 license per device is deducted for every task (Refer to Images 2a & 2b).
Image 2a: My Dashboard - BitRaser Cloud Console (Show Graph View)
Image 2b: My Dashboard - BitRaser Cloud Console (Show List View)
New Dashboard
You can create your dashboard and show only the details you want on every login.
Users & Licenses
Under this option, you can see four sub-headings: Licenses, Groups & Users, Roles, and Users Monitoring.
Licenses
It contains the license details for all your purchased products. It provides the total available licenses & consumed licenses. Recharge history is available user & date-wise. Each user's license activity report is available according to the product type (Refer to Images 3 & 4).
Image 3: Product License Tab BitRaser Cloud Console
Image 4: Recharge History License Tab BitRaser Cloud Console
Groups & Users
In this tab, you can view, manage, edit, and delete the ‘Groups’ & ‘Users’. This feature is only available to the Admin to create users and groups for assigning licenses to them for performing data erasure, diagnostics, or verification tasks. You can assign licenses to users in the following manner:
- Pool Licenses: The licenses are assigned to the users in a Pool Group. Only the Admin or Manager has the right to create and distribute the licenses to a pool of users. This functionality's main advantage is making licenses available to a pool of users rather than one user to perform uninterrupted data erasure.
- Individual Licenses: The licenses are assigned to a specific user. Individual users can be found under the default group tab.
The admin can assign licenses, view users, and change their roles (Refer to Image 5).
Image 5: Group and Users License Tab BitRaser Cloud Console
Roles
This tab only provides information about the various user and their rights - Admin, Manager, Standard User, Pool User, and Auditor (Refer to Image 6).
Roles are assigned when creating a user under the Groups & Users tab. Organizations typically assign the Auditor role to users who require read-only access to erasure reports and certificates for auditing, verification, and compliance purposes.
Image 6: Roles License Tab BitRaser Cloud Console
User Monitoring
This functionality helps the Admin view each user's activity, including their ‘Login’ and ‘Logout’ times (Refer to Image 7).
Image 7: Users Monitoring License Tab BitRaser Cloud Console
Reports
BitRaser Cloud Console allows easy access to reports & certificates of erasure, diagnostics, and verification across various BitRaser products purchased by the user. These can be accessed via the reports tab and are bifurcated according to BitRaser product type (Refer to Image 8).
Image 8: Reports Tab BitRaser Cloud Console
The report can be searched according to multiple criteria, making finding an old report or certificate easy. For Example, for an audit inquiry, a particular disk serial number’s report is required to be fetched; you can simply search by the ‘Disk Serial Number’ (Refer to Image 9).
Image 9: Report Search Criteria BitRaser Cloud Console
Furthermore, you can access the certificates from the save certificate tab.
Download BitRaser
By clicking on the 'Download BitRaser', you see the complete portfolio of BitRaser with its downloadable ISO files. This includes:
- BitRaser Drive Eraser ISO for Cloud, Offline, and Network variants
- BitRaser Detector For Autopilot
- BitRaser MSI Package for Remote Wiping of Endpoint Devices
- BitRaser Hardware Diagnostics ISO file for Cloud, Offline, and Network variants
- BitRaser Mobile Eraser & Diagnostics for Barebone and Windows variants
- BitRaser Drive Verifier ISO for Cloud, Offline, and Network variants
- Previous old BitRaser ISO files
You can download the BitRaser ISO file as per the licenses purchased and get started.
Create Custom ISO
Users can create a custom ISO to standardize and automate data erasure processes across locations as per organizational requirements. Standardization helps eliminate human errors and negligence. Automating erasure tasks helps save time and ensure consistency in the data erasure process (Refer to Image 10).
Image 10: Customize BitRaser Drive Eraser ISO
Apart from the above components, the BitRaser Cloud Console left pane shows Autopilot/MDM Recheck, help manual for each product, and Settings option for Email Authentication, and for configuring the Mobile Diagnostics app.
