The EmpowerID Cloud Gateway Client is a lightweight application that can be installed on a Windows desktop or server machine within your on-premise network to enable . This client enables your EmpowerID Cloud SaaS tenant to inventory and manage manages your on-premise systems without requiring network infrastructure changes or the introduction of firewall holes. The EmpowerID Cloud Gateway uses Azure Hybrid Connections, which allows for the relaying of data between different networks that can be “scoped to a single application endpoint on a single machine” using HTTP(S) and WebSockets. In this This way, services, and applications can access resources safely in the cloud and on-premise with a single host: port combination.
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What is Azure Relay & Azure Relay Hybrid Connections? Azure Relay is a message service provided in the Azure Service Bus platform, which can expose services that run in premises to the public cloud. The services can be exposed without opening a port on the firewall with the use of Azure Relay. Azure Hybrid Connectionsis a protocol feature provided by Azure Relay which is open standard secured web sockets enabling multi-platform scenarios for HTTP and WebSockets. |
How does the Cloud Gateway Client allow EmpowerID to interact with systems in the local network?
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