Distributed Network Configuration Management for MSPs and Large Operators
rConfig Vector gives MSPs, telcos, and large enterprises a modern, distributed NCM platform for managing thousands of devices across many customers and regions. Centralise control, keep customers isolated, and run configuration backups, compliance, and automation at scale.
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What is multi-tenant NCM?
Multi-tenant network configuration management is an NCM platform where one deployment serves many isolated networks at once. Each tenant has its own devices, jobs, audit trail, and access scope. rConfig Vector is built this way for MSPs, telcos, and large enterprises that manage configurations for many customers or regions from one place.
Why MSPs and large operators choose rConfig Vector
Vector is designed for teams managing many networks, not just one. It gives you clean tenant separation, distributed collectors close to devices, and a single place to enforce standards, compliance, and automation for every customer.
Multi-tenant by design
Segment customers, regions, or business units with clear boundaries and RBAC. Each tenant gets isolated inventories, jobs, and audit history, and your NOC keeps one console for the whole estate.
Distributed, close to the edge
Deploy lightweight Vector collectors into customer sites, POPs, and regions. Run backups, checks, and scripts next to the devices, not across the WAN, to keep things fast, resilient, and predictable.
Centralised governance, simple ops
Use one central manager to search, report, and prove compliance across every customer. Standardise policies once, reuse them everywhere, and keep your NCM story consistent for audits and QBRs.
A modern NCM control plane with collectors everywhere you need them
rConfig Vector separates the control plane from execution. The central manager sets the rules; collectors handle work where the devices live, giving you low-latency NCM and clear governance at MSP scale.
Tier 1: Central Manager
One central UI and API to manage tenants, policies, jobs, and compliance. Inventory, history, and audit trails live here, giving your NOC and engineering team a trusted source of truth.
Tier 2: Vector collectors
Stateless, horizontally scalable engines you deploy per customer, per region, or per network zone. They handle backups, config retrieval, command execution, and policy checks close to the devices.
Tier 3: Devices and services
Routers, switches, firewalls, CPEs, GPON/FTTH kit, DC networks, wireless, IoT, and OT. Vector gives you one consistent way to back up, validate, and report on configuration state for all of them.
Built to keep MSPs and customers safe
Vector is self-hosted and designed for regulated environments. You control where collectors run, which networks they can see, and how credentials are managed. Each site runs the rConfig Vector Agent, the distributed Go collector. Tight RBAC, tenant isolation, and full audit data make it easier to answer hard questions from security, regulators, and customers.
âś“Deployment flexibility
- →Deploy central manager on-prem or in private cloud
- →Run collectors in DCs, branches, POPs, or customer sites
- →Support for HA patterns and regional failover designs
- →No SaaS dependency. Data stays inside your own perimeter.
Components of the Vector Suite
Vector ships as three pieces that work together: a central control plane, a Go collector at every site, and a white-label portal for the customers you serve.
Control plane · this page
rConfig Vector
The control plane and the rest of this page.
Data plane
rConfig Vector Agent
The Go-based remote collector at every site.
rConfig Vector AgentFront office
rConfig Vector Prism
The white-label customer portal.
rConfig Vector Prism
Why operators replace SolarWinds, ManageEngine, and script-based NCM with Vector
Vector is not another monolithic NCM bolt-on. It is a distributed, self-hosted control plane designed for MSPs and operators who need multi-tenant control, predictable performance, and a clean security story.
| Capability | rConfig Vector | SolarWinds NCM / ManageEngine | Cisco Prime / vendor stacks | Oxidized / RANCID / scripts |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Multi-tenant by design | yessupported | nonot supported | nonot supported | nonot supported |
| Distributed collectors close to devices | yessupported | partialpartially supported | nonot supported | partialpartially supported |
| Hierarchical RBAC for MSPs | yessupported | nonot supported | partialpartially supported | nonot supported |
| Self-hosted, no SaaS dependency | yessupported | yessupported | yessupported | yessupported |
| Modern, API-first architecture | yessupported | nonot supported | nonot supported | partialpartially supported |
| Built-in compliance & drift control | yessupported | partialpartially supported | partialpartially supported | nonot supported |
| Search, diff & history across tenants | yessupported | partialpartially supported | partialpartially supported | nonot supported |
| Aligned to NIS2 / DORA / ISO 27001 | yessupported | partialpartially supported | partialpartially supported | nonot supported |
| Active roadmap & commercial support | yessupported | partialpartially supported | partialpartially supported | nonot supported |
If you run a single small network, a vendor-bundled NCM module is probably enough. If you operate many networks across customers, regions, or business units, a distributed multi-tenant control plane is the only approach that scales without bolting on more firewall rules and more spreadsheets.
Everything from rConfig V8 Pro, baked into Vector
Vector inherits the full rConfig V8 Pro feature set. Automated multi-vendor backups, fast search, diff and rollback, real-time change detection, and compliance checks, now scaled out across collectors and customers.
Explore V8 Pro featuresAutomated multi-vendor backups
Scheduled, policy-driven configuration backups across routers, switches, firewalls, wireless, DC, and edge devices, now orchestrated across many collectors.
Search, diff & history
Global search, per-device history, and line-by-line diffs across tenants. Quickly answer what changed, where, and when, even in busy MSP environments.
Safe rollbacks & change windows
Use structured change workflows and rollback plans to support maintenance windows across many customers without relying on one-off scripts.
Compliance & drift control
Apply baseline standards and compliance policies consistently, then reuse them per tenant. Detect drift before it becomes an incident or audit finding.
Built specifically for MSPs, telcos, and multi-region enterprises
Vector takes everything from rConfig V8 Pro and extends it with multi-tenant controls, distributed collectors, and MSP-grade governance features. It is the NCM platform you can standardise on across all customers.
Multi-tenant segmentation
Isolate customers, regions, or business units with dedicated inventories, jobs, and audit trails. All governed from one central manager.
Per-customer & regional collectors
Deploy Vector collectors per customer site, POP, or region to run jobs close to devices, reduce latency, and keep changes inside the right network zone.
Hierarchical RBAC for MSPs
Give your NOC global visibility while granting customers scoped access to their own devices, reports, and compliance status.
Collector health & job observability
Monitor collector health, job queues, and per-tenant performance so you can see where work is running and where to add capacity.
Global policies, local enforcement
Define standard policies, templates, and compliance rules once, then apply them selectively across tenants and regions.
Enterprise & MSP ready compliance
Support NIS2, DORA, ISO 27001 and customer-specific frameworks with centralised reporting, drift detection, and per-tenant evidence.
Hybrid & multi-region deployment
Run your central manager in a core DC or private cloud while placing collectors in customer sites, country zones, or regulatory jurisdictions.
Standardised runbooks & workflows
Turn proven change and rollback procedures into reusable NCM workflows that your engineers and customers can trust.
Ready for AI & automation pipelines
Vector’s API-first design makes it easy to plug into your existing tooling, from ITSM and observability to AI copilots and automation engines.
How rConfig Vector is used in production today
Vector is built for operators that live in the real world: SLAs, audits, outages, and growth. These are the patterns we see most often across our MSP, telco, and enterprise customers.
MSPs consolidating NCM across dozens of customers
Managed Service Providers often inherit a mess of tools: RANCID here, Oxidized there, Python scripts on someone's laptop, and a few legacy commercial platforms. Vector replaces that patchwork with a single, distributed NCM control plane.
Onboard new customers by deploying a dedicated collector and assigning a tenant
Apply baseline standards, policies, and compliance rules consistently across all customers
Give selected customers read-only or admin access to just their devices and reports
Use global search and reporting to prepare for QBRs and security reviews
European Tier-2 MSP
14 customers, 4,200 devices
Replaced a mix of Oxidized and per-customer scripts with one Vector deployment and tenant-scoped collectors, cutting customer onboarding from days to hours.
Regional ISP and FTTH operator
3 POPs, 11,000 access devices
Moved CPE and access-layer backups onto regional collectors, giving NetOps a single inventory and removing nightly WAN traffic spikes from the old centralised pull model.
Multi-region enterprise, regulated sector
6 regions, 1,800 devices
Standardised NCM across business units with per-region collectors and global compliance policies, producing the evidence pack their NIS2 audit needed in one export.
Related products
rConfig Vector Agent: distributed Go collector
The Go-based collector that runs at every site, talks SSH, SNMP, and HTTP to your devices, and ships results back to the central manager over outbound TLS.
rConfig Vector Prism: white-label customer portal
Give every customer their own branded, MFA-secured portal scoped to their devices. Tags map to teams, teams map to customers, and the whole thing runs on your own infrastructure.
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rConfig Vector – Frequently Asked Questions
Standardise NCM across every customer, site, and region
rConfig Vector is the distributed control plane for MSPs, telcos, and multi-region enterprises. Deploy collectors close to your devices, keep tenants cleanly isolated, and run one consistent NCM story across the whole estate.