Overview

TSecureGateway provides a secure way to manage communication between multiple systems. It enables both one-to-one and one-to-many connections, ensuring that only authorized traffic passes between designated points. For installation instructions, refer to the Installation-WebGateway section of the manual. After installation, start the WebGateway service and monitor log messages in the Windows Event Viewer for connection details.

Our Secure Multi-Port Gateway ensures secure communications between multiple projects, nodes, or other systems you want to communicate with.

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How to Use

Ensure secure communications between multiple projects, nodes, or other systems you want to communicate with via our Secure Multi-Port Gateway.

Set up 1-to-1 communications to a single site or set up 1-to-many communications for multiple sites running into the same "master" project.

In the example below, we created a business-level project that can send requests to any site in a group, and all the traffic is handled via our Secure Multi-Port Gateway.

Our Secure Multi-Port Gateway ensures safe data communications by only allowing the traffic that is supposed to go from point A to point B, point A to point E, and so on, all while keeping the sites separate from each other.


Installation

o install the “WebGateway,” run the “InstallTWebGatewayService.exe” application. All the information for the WebGateway is in the TWebGatewayService.exe.config. This will create a Windows service, and all output will be sent to the Windows Event Viewer. After any modifications to the .config file, the Windows service must be stopped and restarted.


Using Additional Ports

When using additional ports (ExtraCount parameter), you need to configure the TWebGatewayService.exe.config file and then execute the WebGateway installation. The executable “InstallTWebGatewayService.exe” will verify the TWebGatewayService.exe.config and install the additional ports on the Windows routing table. After you make modifications to the related additional ports, you must follow the steps below:

  1. In the command prompt, run the application: InstallWebGateway /uninstall
  2. Modify the file: TWebGatewayService.exe.config
  3. In the command prompt, run the application: InstallWebGateway


Available Parameters

The available WebGateway parameters can be found below:

LocalPort : WebGateway listening port. If you are ONLY using Windows Authentication, set the parameters to zero (0) and the port will not be opened

LocalPortWA: WebGateway listening port using Windows Authentication. If you are not using Windows Authentication, set the parameters to zero (0) and the port will not be opened

RemoteIP : Computer IP that runs the runtime server (TServer.exe)

RemotePort : “TServer.exe” listening port without Windows Authentication

RemotePortWA: “TServer.exe” listening port using Windows Authentication

WA:  Must use either RemotePort or RemotePortWA. It does not matter which port the data arrives in (LocalPort or LocalPortWA)

     True = Use only Remote Port WA

     False = Use only Remote Port

RuntimeUsersProject: [optional] Set which project (tproj) has the RuntimeUsers data table that will validate the users from SmartClient/RichClient

CheckRunTimeUsersWA: [optional] Set to validate the users from SmartClient/RichClient using Windows Authentication

     True = Enabled (Runtime Using Project parameter cannot be used when True)

     False = Disabled

TargetCF : [optional] This enables a project to be deployed in a Compact Framework environment (WindowsCE).

     True = Enabled

     False = Disabled.

ExtraCount: [optional] Number of additional ports. These ports will only route the incoming data in the LocalPort<#> to the RemoteIP<#> and RemotePort<#>.

LocalPort2: WebGateway listening port. It must start with #2.

RemoteIP2:  Computer IP that is running the runtime service

RemotePort2: “TServer.exe” listening port

LocalPort3: WebGateway listening port

RemoteIP3: Computer IP that is running the runtime service

RemotePort3: “TServer.exe” listening port

.....

RemoteIP<n>: Computer IP that is running the runtime service

RemotePort<n>: “TServer.exe” listening port

Notes:

You can find any default values in the “TWebGatewayService.exe.config” located in the product binaries folder.

When editing directly the config files, the line ”<! − −” and ”−− >” would create a comment block, so  it needs to be removed.

When using Windows Authentication, the multiport functionality cannot be enabled

Starting the Service

When the WebGateway service is started, log messages appear in the Windows Event Viewer.

Below is a message similar to the log messages:

First redirect :: LocalPort: 3101, RemoteIP: localhost, RemotePort: 3101,RemotePortWA: 3102 
Extra Redirection Table:
Listen on ipv4:	Connect to ipv4:

Address	Port	Address	Port
---------------    ----------	--------------- ---------- 0.0.0.0	3100	192.168.80.129	3100
0.0.0.0	3102	192.168.80.129	3101

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