Adding servers
A server in SHTERA is an address, a port and a protocol, stored inside a folder. That is where it inherits credentials and VPN from.
Three ways to load them
One at a time, when there are few. By CSV file, pasting the list you already have. Or by network range, when you want a whole segment at once.
When you add it you enter its username and password, stored encrypted against THAT server. If another server in the folder already has its own, the "Use credentials from…" dropdown copies them over so you do not type them twice.
The port is declared, not scanned. SHTERA does not probe ports on your network: if your SSH lives on 2222, you type it.
Automatic pairing
You sign in once with the server password. SHTERA generates a key pair, installs the public half on the server, verifies it works and stores the private half encrypted in the folder. After that nobody types that password again.
Pairing is what enables the SFTP file explorer and Ansible runs against that server.
A real name for each server
Every paired server gets a real domain name: server.yourcompany.shtera.com. It works inside the panel and from outside too, with whatever client you normally use.
Moving a server between folders
You can, and it is more than relabelling: the pairing private key and any saved control panels are encrypted with the source folder key. When the server moves, all of that is re-encrypted with the destination folder key, entirely inside your browser. If anything could not be decrypted, the move is not even attempted.
