Gateway Cluster Connections (UI)
The Gateway UI can connect to multiple Gateway clusters. Use the Connections UI to manage connections to each cluster.
There are several different UIs displayed, depending on which part of the left pane is selected. To edit the connection information, click the title area of the corresponding cluster.
Here you can change the internal host and port which the UI uses to connect to the Gateway server.
Each icon within the connection block will display a different UI. The Remote Agent icon displays a dashboard for each connected Remote Agent. In the image below, the 2 / 2 indicates that 2 Remote Agents are currently connected, out of the 2 Remote Agents which have this Gateway marked as the primary. Since Remote Agents can connect to any Gateway within the cluster, these numbers will change when more than one Gateway server is deployed.
The Firewall icon displays public connection information (which the RAs use to connect to each Gateway). It also displays the required NAT entry to route RA traffic to the Gateway server.
The Gateway icon displays some state information about the Gateway we’re connected to. You can also choose to Disable the gateway, which will stop the Gateway from participating in the cluster. If you mark the Gateway as Default, it will be the default Gateway for each newly created Remote Integrator (but can be overridden when the RI is created).
Gateways support the concept of a Named Cluster. You can join many Gateways to a logical cluster (for example, 8 Gateways all connected to the same database), and then partition those Gateways within the logical cluster. You can choose to specify one of Development, Production, Validation, and Test. If we had 8 Gateways in the logical cluster, we could specify 4 as Production, 2 as Validation, and two as Development. Each named cluster operates as though it is distinct from other named clusters, yet Remote Integrators can easily be moved between them (so an RI can be created in Validation and then promoted to Production when ready).
The final icon represents any connected Connexion instances.