Administration & Monitoring

Relevant primarily to registry operators and system administrators.

GUI administration interface

FRED comes with a plugin-based, extensible web administration interface for registry operators called FERDA. It provides access to registry data and audit logs, control over registry processes such as registrant verification, and tools for administering automated reports.

CLI administration interface

FRED includes a command-line administration tool, fred-admin, intended for installation procedures and automation tasks. It provides scripting-friendly access to administrative functions.

Two-factor authentication for administration

FERDA supports two-factor authentication (2FA) and can be configured to require hardware security keys in addition to passwords.

Administrator access and permission control

FERDA supports role-based access control, allowing different administrator accounts to be granted different combinations of read, write, and execute permissions across FERDA modules.

Audit logging

All registry interactions are extensively logged. Logs are accessible through the FERDA graphical administration interface, giving operators a full audit trail of activity of each FRED service across the system.

Object history

In addition to audit logging, every change made to an object in the registry creates a snapshot, which can be reviewed in FERDA.

Registry reports

FERDA includes a reporting plugin that allows operators to generate on-demand reports from SQL queries against the registry database. Reports can filter data based on input from the user and can be exported as csv.

Registrant verification

A FERDA plugin and a companion web portal that allows the registry to request information verification from domain owners. For example via EU NIS2-mandated checks or eID authentication in order to detect and address false, incomplete, misleading, or fraudulent registrant data.

Notifications

FRED provides an interface for sending and monitoring outgoing messages to registrants and contacts, supporting email, SMS, and postal letters. Message content is fully customisable through Jinja2 templates, managed via the Messenger, Secretary, and File Manager components.

Message automation

Registry and registrar operations automatically trigger notifications to the relevant object registrants or technical contacts.