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Managing your Secure Gateway Service

Managing your Secure Gateway Service

Secure Gateway is deprecated. For more information, see the deprecation details.

Secure Gateway Dashboard

From your Secure Gateway dashboard, you can quickly see the following details:

  • The inbound data flow across all your gateways in the past 12 hours.
  • The outbound data flow across all your gateways in the past 12 hours.
  • A graph displaying the past 12 hours of usage on a per gateway basis.
  • Your existing gateways, their current status, and the number of destinations they contain.

Secure Gateway Dashboard with Usage

Service Profile

By clicking the Profile button Profile Button, you can see:

Field Description
Plan Level Your currently selected service plan.
Gateway Limit The number of gateways you can have before being charged for extra gateways.
Client Limit The number of clients you can connect to any single gateway.
Destination Limit The number of destinations any single gateway can contain.
Data Limit The amount of data transfer (in GB) that your plan supports before being charged for a data overage.
Gateway Overages The current number of gateway overages you are being charged for.
Data Overages The number of data overages incurred for the current month's billing cycle.

Gateway Info Panel

By clicking the Settings button Setting Button on any of the gateway tiles, you can see:

  • The security token required to use the API or to connect a client, depending on whether the token is being enforced on client connections.
  • The gateway ID required to use the API or to connect a client.
  • The node your gateway has been created on. This is the server your client will connect to.
  • When the gateway was created
  • When the gateway was last modified
  • A link to regenerate the certificate and key associated with the gateway. These files are only used with legacy destinations that do not contain their own certificate/key pair for mutual authentication on the client.

The following tasks can also be completed from the Gateway Info panel:

  • Edit or view more information about your gateway and security token. A new panel is displayed when you select this option.
  • Disable or enable the gateway.
  • Delete the gateway.

Dashboard for a particular gateway

By clicking on one of the gateway tiles, the dashboard for that particular gateway is displayed. Similar to the main Secure Gateway dashboard, you can quickly see the following details:

  • The inbound data flow across this gateway in the past 12 hours.
  • The outbound data flow across this gateway in the past 12 hours.
  • A graph displaying the past 12 hours of usage on a per destination basis.
  • Your existing destinations, their current status.

Dashboard for a particular gateway

Destination Info Panel

By clicking the Settings button Setting Button on any of the destination tiles, you can see:

  • The destination ID required to use the API.
  • On-premises destinations will have a cloud host and port. This information is required by your application in order to connect to your on-premises resource.
  • Cloud destinations will have a client port. This is the port the Secure Gateway Client will be listening on in order to connect your on-premises application to your cloud resource.
  • The resource host and port this destination is pointed to.
  • When the destination was created
  • When the destination was last modified

The following tasks can also be completed from the Destination Info panel:

  • Edit or view more information about the destination. A new panel is displayed when you select this option.
  • Disable or enable the destination.
  • Delete the destination.