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The Myrmex platform, through the Hydra agent, is designed to be your unified command center for managing multiple security and infrastructure assets. Hydra acts as an integration management and execution specialist, utilizing the Myrmex Endpoint Agent (in Collector Mode) as its essential gateway to interact with a wide range of devices and services across your ecosystem. To manage multiple assets, Hydra uses the following approaches:
Myrmex platform managing multiple security and infrastructure assets

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Specialized Integration Tools

For specific assets like Fortigate, pfSense, GCP, AWS, Office365, Trendmicro, Wazuh, Wazuh Indexer, Elastic Security, and Unifi, Hydra has dedicated tools (e.g., hydra_fortigate, hydra_gcp, hydra_aws). These tools allow you to execute complex and specific actions for each platform, leveraging the native APIs of each service. You can ask Hydra to perform operations such as:
  • Configure security policies on firewalls.
  • Manage cloud resources (virtual machines, storage buckets).
  • Monitor security events in SIEMs.
  • Administer users and services in Office365.

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SSH Network Operations

For network devices that support SSH access (such as switches, routers, generic firewalls, or for direct CLI access to Fortigate/pfSense), Hydra can establish interactive SSH sessions. This allows for the execution of command-line interface (CLI) commands directly on the devices, offering granular control and the ability to automate tasks that require direct terminal interaction. Hydra’s SSH tools include:
  • ssh terminal to initiate an SSH session.
  • ssh terminal to send commands.
  • ssh terminal to capture terminal output.
  • ssh disconnect to terminate the session.

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How to Manage Multiple Assets in Practice

For Hydra to manage a specific asset, you need to provide the integration_id corresponding to that asset. Each integration configured in the Myrmex platform has a unique integration_id. The process generally involves:
  1. Asset Identification: You specify which asset you want to manage (e.g., a Fortigate, a GCP instance, a Linux server via SSH).
  2. Providing the integration_id: You provide the integration_id of the target asset.
  3. Defining the Action: You describe the action you want Hydra to execute (e.g., “list network interfaces”, “create a new VM”, “check the status of a service”).
Hydra will then select the appropriate tool (specialized or SSH) and execute the action on the specified asset. To manage multiple assets, you can instruct Hydra to perform a sequence of actions on different integration_ids.