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Customer Portal

Key Advantages

Total User Control

The Customer Portal gives you direct access to SoftLayer infrastructure, providing total system and connectivity access and control that complement direct server management tools.

Higher Efficiency for IT Operations

The Customer Portal reduces the need for human intervention inside the data center, simplifying and accelerating system management and reducing total cost of operations.

Secure, Flexible Access

The Customer Portal leverages SoftLayer's industry-leading Network-Within-a-Network topology. It provides complete and secure access via SSL Web-based administration over the Internet using any common Web browser.

Convenient Technical Resources

The Customer Portal puts technical resources at your fingertips, with extensive Adobe® Flash® tutorials for software packages, including Parallels® Plesk Panel, cPanel®, Helm, and IPMI View.

The SoftLayer® Customer Portal is our easy-to-use Web interface for remotely managing your SoftLayer services and account. The Portal gives you complete access to more than 200 backend actions, giving you control over everything in your SoftLayer environment, including the ability to:

  • View performance details and control all functions of your SoftLayer dedicated servers and CloudLayer Computing Instances, easily turn a server off or on, view bandwidth graphs, ping servers to test network availability, reboot, and much more.
  • Manage your account, set up billing information, change monthly billing methods, reset your password, or add new users to your SoftLayer account.
  • Deploy servers, firewalls, new backup solutions, and anything else you’d like to add to your environment on demand.
  • Get support in real time by chatting with our support team, submit support tickets, and view valuable technical tutorials and information.

The Customer Portal is built on our robust API. If you have your own portal or server control system, you can integrate any of our portal features into your own system using our API as well.

For more detailed information and help using the Customer Portal, visit KnowledgeLayer.

The Customer Portal provides remote access and control for all of SoftLayer’s services and automated solutions.

Features

System Management

  • FTP Management
  • IPMI Management & Stats
  • Hardware Configuration
  • Reboot & Reload
  • Monitoring Configuration
  • CloudLayer Management
  • Anti-virus / Spyware
  • Free PCI Scan
  • Vulnerability Scans & IDS
  • Image Management
  • Spare Pool
  • Software Updates
  • Storage & Backup
  • Content Delivery Network
  • DNS Management
  • IP Management
  • Network Console & Tools
  • Bandwidth Graphs
  • Port Control
  • Firewall Management
  • Load Balancing
  • SSL Certificates
  • VPN Access
  • SWIP & RWhois

Account Management

  • User Administration
  • External Authentication
  • Accounting Information
  • Real-time Notification History
  • Lockbox Management
  • Secure Private VLAN

Ordering & Deployment

  • Dedicated Servers
  • Public Cloud Instances
  • Private Clouds
  • Object Storage
  • Content Delivery Network
  • Storage & Backup
  • Firewalls & Load Balancers
  • Upgrades
  • Other Services & Software

Support

  • Open & Monitor Tickets
  • Tutorials
  • KnowledgeLayer