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Do real work

You have a running backplane and a connected client. This section is the bridge from "connected" to "operating real infrastructure": each guide is a task-shaped, start-to-finish walk you can execute against a fresh deploy.

Work through the first three in order — each builds on the previous one:

Guide What you will have at the end
Register targets and secrets Your systems registered as targets, credentials staged in your secret store, and a green probe proving MEHO can reach and identify each one.
Run your first operations The discover → groups → search → preview → call ladder, exercised end to end against a real target, including how to page large results and what the safety flags mean.
Watch your estate with sensors A sensor evaluating a real check on a schedule, a dashboard rolling it up, and a triage walk of the five-state vocabulary when something breaks.

Then, when an operation needs a second pair of eyes:

Guide What you will have at the end
Approvals and break-glass A clear path through the four-eyes rule, including the two ways a single operator clears a gated write — the recommended agent-requester pattern and the audited emergency break-glass — and how to prove to an auditor which one your deploy runs.

Go deeper

Once the core loop is second nature, these guides cover the rest of the backplane — reach for whichever the task in front of you needs:

Guide What it covers
Topology The dependency graph: blast-radius (dependents), reachability (path), and how a resource gets into the graph.
Broadcast The cross-operator activity feed — read it, announce intent, watch it live, and the read-before-start discipline.
Memory and knowledge Two durable stores: scoped, TTL'd memory and the tenant knowledge base, and which belongs where.
Audit forensics Reconstructing "who did X to Y and when" from the append-only ledger, and tracing an agent session end to end.
Flight recorder The redacted per-dispatch record of the vendor traffic behind an audit row — what it captures, and who can read it back.
Runbooks Authoring versioned, multi-step procedures and running them one gated step at a time.
Scheduler Firing agent runs on cron / one-off triggers, and the durable-credential behavior that keeps them running unattended.
Event ingestion Firing a governed agent run from an authenticated external webhook — a monitoring alert or a registry action.
Satellite gateway Remote check execution for networks the central instance cannot dial.
Windows estate and in-guest execution Governing Windows Server, Active Directory, DNS, failover clustering, SQL Server, and Hyper-V, and running an approval-gated program inside a VM's guest OS.
Add-ons How a separate product pairs with the backplane and stays under its policy, approvals, and audit.

When a guide and your deploy disagree

These guides are written against the product version this site version documents (see the version selector). If a command or error message differs on your deploy, check that your CLI and backplane versions match the docs version you are reading — then file a docs issue: a guide a fresh user cannot execute verbatim is a bug.