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Welcome 0:00 0:00 Welcome to Optanik Personal, the free account for your home lab and your own computers. It's free for up to thirty endpoints, with no time limit and no credit card.
0:09 In this tour we'll sign up, go through every item in the menu and what a Personal account includes, then look at settings, and how to switch to a Business account.
Signing up 0:17 0:17 Go to app.optanik.com, and choose Register.
0:22 First, pick your account type. Business is for your company or your clients, with one endpoint free. Personal is for your own computers, free for up to thirty.
0:31 Choose Personal, and Optanik shows the Personal use terms. Personal is only for your own computers and your household's, like a home lab, a media server, or the family's computers.
0:41 It can't be used to manage customers' or clients' devices, or your employer's computers, or to run an MSP or any other IT services business. For any of that, you need a Business account.
0:52 Tick the box to agree to use it only for your own and your household's computers. A Personal account can't be created without it.
0:59 Then add your name,
1:01 and pick your workspace address. This becomes your own sign-in page.
1:05 Enter your email,
1:08 and choose a password,
1:11 then type it once more to confirm it.
1:15 Click Create account, confirm your email, and set up two step sign in. Your Personal workspace is ready straight away.
Your Personal workspace 1:22 1:22 Here's Jamie's brand new workspace. Under Logged in as, you can always see who you are and which workspace you're in.
1:29 Up top, the counter shows how many of your thirty free endpoints are in use, and the Personal tag tells you this is a Personal account.
1:36 A Personal account has exactly one workspace. On Business, there's a plus button next to Workspaces to add one for every client. On Personal there isn't, because it's just for you.
1:47 Workspaces is home. It's where you open full desktops and web apps from your computers, right in the browser. These tabs split them into all endpoints, VDI desktops, and URLs.
1:58 The bell at the top opens Notifications, for computers that go offline, updates falling behind, or CPU, memory, or disk running high.
Keyring, Ticketing & OptaMeet 2:07 2:07 Under Workspaces are the companion apps. Keyring, the password vault, is included free on Personal: your own vault, plus a vault for this workspace.
2:16 Sharing passwords with other people is a Business feature, so on Personal your vault stays yours.
2:22 The Ticketing System and OptaMeet are not included in a free Personal account, but you can add them whenever you like. Ticketing is ten dollars a month per technician,
2:31 and OptaMeet video meetings are five dollars a month per user. On Personal, your own seat is paid too.
Add New 2:37 2:37 Add New is where you add things. New URL puts any web page on your Workspaces page, opened directly or through one of your computers.
2:45 New VDI adds a full remote desktop from one of your computers, or an SSH terminal on Linux and Mac.
2:52 And Agent Install is how you add a computer. Pick Windows, Linux, or Mac, copy the one line command, and run it on the machine.
3:00 Your workspace code is already in the command, and with auto update on, Optanik keeps every agent current for you.
Remote Assist 3:07 3:07 Under Workspace admin, Remote Assist is greyed out. It lets a technician help someone who calls in, and it needs a Ticketing technician license.
Endpoints 3:15 3:15 Endpoints lists every computer in your home lab. Once the agent is installed, each one shows up here, online, with live CPU, memory, and disk.
3:26 From each row you can take remote control of the screen, open PowerShell or SSH, restart or update the agent, and see who's signed in.
3:34 When you go past thirty computers, Add endpoints adds more, at one dollar each per month. There are no bulk tiers on Personal: it's a dollar for every endpoint beyond thirty.
Group Objects 3:46 3:46 Group Objects is included. Every computer is grouped by its operating system automatically.
3:51 Make your own groups too, like servers, media boxes, or the kids' laptops, and nest them inside each other.
Business-only items 3:58 3:58 Some items in the menu are greyed out with a lock. They're Business features. Click one, and Optanik explains what it is and what a Business account adds.
4:07 Group Policies push settings like firewall rules to whole groups of computers.
4:12 Device Configuration sets up printers and mapped drives for a company's computers.
4:17 And Optanik Domain runs a company's domain, DNS, and domain users. These are built for businesses, so they're not part of Personal.
Networking 4:25 4:25 Networking is included. Optanik Network gives each of your computers a private address, so they can reach each other securely from anywhere, with no VPN to run and no ports to open.
4:36 It's off until you turn it on. Then you choose which computers can talk to each other with policies, and everything else stays isolated.
4:43 LAN Sharing lets a Windows or Linux computer share its local network over Optanik Network, so you can reach things like a printer or a NAS at home from wherever you are.
File Management 4:52 4:52 File Management is included too. Browse the disks of any computer, open files without downloading them, and copy, move, or delete them.
5:00 Branches shows what's using the space on a disk, and Bulk jobs copies files to many computers at once.
Patch Management 5:07 5:07 Patch Management keeps your Windows, Linux, and Mac computers up to date, and shows which ones are behind.
5:13 Scan every computer for missing updates, then install them all with one click, or set a policy for each operating system.
Security 5:21 5:21 Security gives your home lab a score, and checks each computer's firewall, open ports, and disk encryption, with recommendations for anything that needs fixing.
Software, Automation & Reports 5:30 5:30 Software, for pushing installs to many computers, is a Business feature.
5:35 So is Automation, which fixes problems on its own,
5:38 and Reports, which emails scheduled reports to a team.
Settings and account type 5:42 5:42 Now Settings. Open Settings, then General. Right at the top is Account type, which shows this is a Personal account, and how many endpoints are in use.
5:50 It lists every Business-only feature, so you always know what's locked.
Hiding Business-only items 5:54 5:54 Don't want to see the locked items at all? Turn on Hide Business-only menu items.
5:58 And they're gone. The menu now only shows what your Personal account can use, including Remote Assist, which disappears too.
6:05 Turn it off again, and they come back, greyed out. It's off by default, and only Personal accounts have this switch.
Switching to Business 6:12 6:12 If your home lab turns into a business, or you start looking after other people's computers, switch to a Business account right here.
6:18 Click Convert to Business. Optanik asks you to confirm, because Business features unlock, and endpoints are billed at Business pricing.
6:26 Business has one free endpoint, and then two dollars per endpoint each month, getting cheaper at large volumes. In return you get everything, including client workspaces and free technicians.
6:37 We'll cancel and stay Personal. You can also switch the other way, from Business to Personal. The Business-only features are paused, and nothing is deleted, so it all comes back if you switch again.
General settings 6:47 6:47 Further down General are your workspace's appearance, dark or light,
6:52 your workspace name and sign-in address,
6:55 the time zone used for patch windows and timestamps,
6:58 and your two step sign in methods, with an authenticator app, Telegram, or email.
7:03 You can send alerts to a Telegram chat. Branding, email notifications, and a custom mail server are Business features, so Personal doesn't have them.
Billing 7:12 7:12 Billing and Users shows your licenses. Endpoints shows zero of thirty used, with every endpoint beyond thirty at one dollar a month.
7:19 Add endpoints shows exactly what you'd pay. Your thirty free endpoints come first, and paid ones add to them.
7:26 So thirty one endpoints is thirty free, plus one at a dollar a month.
7:31 Ticketing technicians and OptaMeet users are added here with Modify seats, and you pay for your own seat too.
7:37 Keyring is included, for your own vault, with no sharing.
7:41 And your plan is Personal, with thirty free endpoints and no time limit.
Users 7:45 7:45 A Personal account is for one person, so on Users you only see yourself.
7:50 To add other people, give them a Ticketing or OptaMeet license. The invite buttons only appear once you have one, here and in Keyring, Ticketing, and OptaMeet.
REST API, MCP & Webhooks 7:59 7:59 The REST API is included, so you can script your home lab with keys you control.
8:03 MCP Access lets an AI assistant check on your computers or run tasks, with exactly the permissions you give it.
8:09 And Webhooks send your alerts to other tools, like your own home automation.
Personal or Business 8:14 8:14 So which one is right for you? Personal is free for thirty endpoints, then a dollar each, for your own and your household's computers, with one workspace.
8:23 It includes remote control, patching, files, networking, security, the API, and Keyring for you. Ticketing and OptaMeet are paid add ons.
8:32 Business is for companies, IT teams, and MSPs. It has one free endpoint, then two dollars each, with every feature, client workspaces, and free technicians.
That's it 8:42 8:42 That's Optanik Personal: free for your home lab, up to thirty endpoints, with no time limit.
8:49 Sign up free at app.optanik.com, and choose Personal.
