Gardience documentation
Install Gardience, enroll your Windows and Linux machines, and run patching, hardening, compliance evidence and automation from one console. Start with the overview, or search with the box above.
Getting started
Installation
Clients
Using Gardience
- Patch and compliance dashboard
- Patching Linux and Windows
- Update cache (WSUS for Linux)
- Security baseline controls
- Vulnerabilities (CVE lookup)
- STIG compliance
- CMMC Level 2
- Connect Microsoft 365 for CMMC
- Command center
- Connect Okta, Active Directory, your HR system, and other systems for CMMC
- Disk encryption
- AI assistant
- Daily briefing
- States
- Runbooks
- Workflows and approvals
- Schedules
- Change windows and locks
- Held work
- Ansible playbooks
- Secrets vault
- Drift checks and event rules
- Reports, evidence and audit
- Inventory
- Monitoring
- Live questions
- Network devices
Administration
- Users and roles
- The console's certificate
- Single sign-on and directory accounts
- Set up sign-in with Okta
- Government sign-in (notice, marking banner, smart cards)
- Set up sign-in with Microsoft Entra ID
- API keys and the REST API
- AI agents (MCP, skills, API)
- The gdn command line
- Forward the audit log to a SIEM
- Monitoring
- Notifications
- Backup and restore
- High availability (warm standby)
- Support bundle and logs
- Licensing