The EmpowerID Cloud Gateway enables your EmpowerID Cloud tenant to inventory and manage your on-premise systems without requiring ports to be opened on your firewall. The Cloud Gateway is a lightweight client that can be installed on a Windows desktop or server machine in your on-premise network. The Cloud Gateway client then makes a secure and encrypted outbound HTTPS connection to an EmpowerID queue in Azure as a bridge for communication between the EmpowerID Cloud servers and your on-premise network. You can install multiple Cloud Gateways on-premise for fault tolerance and increased performance.
Prerequisites
Access to your Azure Tenant ID and other Azure sign-in values. For Microsoft help on this, see:
If you are not connected, you can click Connect, or you can change the EmpowerID Tenant DNS and click Connect.
A dialog appears to let you know that registration is complete.
The EmpowerID Cloud Gateway Setup dialog displays the DNS of the server that you are accessing remotely, a Connected! message, and the name of the remote machine from which you are connecting.
The Cloud Gateway adds the following values to your registry under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE > SOFTWARE > TheDotNetFactory > EmpowerID > RemoteAgent
ApiKey
ApiPath
ClientID
ServerGUID
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To verify that the Cloud Gateway is working
Open Services on the cloud gateway machine.
Locate the EmpowerID Remote Agent Service and start the service.
On the EmpowerID Server that you are connected to, run the following workflow in your browser (replacing sso.empowersso.com with your server's FQDN) to ping the cloud gateway: