On the Network tab, you can specify preferences such as source and destination port ranges, relays, and tunnels.
To add or edit Agent network settings:
Note: Clustered or high-availability (HA) Manager installations is no longer supported for Manager software installations. For information about converting from a clustered installation to a single Manager installation, see Removing Clustered Installations.
The Port Options tab allows you to specify a source UDP port range and a destination UDP port range. This option allows customer networking equipment to pass response UDP packets. You can specify separate source and destination port ranges.
If you do not configure the Base Port and Port Range Size, both the origin and destination are set to off and the host operating system allocates the port numbers for session-originating sockets.
To configure port options:
On the Network tab, select Port Options.
Note: Values below 49152 generate a warning when saved, indicating that the port number is low and may conflict with other services.
In the Port Range Size field, specify a port range. This value is required and must be at or above the default of 100.
A relay allows you to create application layer routing rules that map Agent names to IP addresses. By default, relays are not enabled. If Agents cannot communicate directly with one another, a relay directs the Agents to contact an IP address and TCP port that can in turn direct the communication to the appropriate Agent. For example, Agents may need to communicate through a firewall or another Agent that is able to communicate with both Agents, or you may need to resolve an Agent name to an alternate IP address when you cannot resolve the Agent's fully qualified domain name locally.
You can add data transfer system relays to Agents either by creating common relays that are included with all Agent software installations, as part of the installation information file, or by adding relays to an individual Agent using the Configure menu. You can run a UDP connection through a relay, unless the relay uses a tunnel, as UDP does not work with tunnels.
To configure Agent relays:
On the Network tab, select Relays.
Select Enable this agent to act as a relay.
To specify the target Agent for the relay, click Add Destination.
Select a destination Agent, or select Any Destination.
Click Add Relay.
Specify up to four relay Agents in the Relay Address field, or choose the Agent(s) from the drop-down menu.
* or \* to apply the relay definition to all remote Agents, except the local Agent itself.*.subdomain (e.g. *.example.com) to apply the relay definition to all remote Agents within the specified subdomain, except the local Agent itself.Via this Hostname/IP field, use 0.0.0.0 to refer to the relay host itself. Use 0 for the Via this Port to use the default port.After saving and closing the dialog, the Agent name displays as an IP address.
Accept the default port number for the TCP port of the relay Agent, or specify a different number in the Port field. To run a UDP connection through a relay, specify the UDP port number. You can specify only one UDP relay per connection path.
To remove a relay rule from an Agent, select the relay rule to remove and click Delete.
Note: Including relay rules can impact file transfer performance.
Flight can be used with an Agent relay when the Signiant Flight client server does not have direct access to the Internet. In this configuration, the Flight client connects to an Agent relay deployed within the organization's perimeter network, which connects to Signiant Cloud Services. No data is written to disk on the relay. The content is only sent through Signiant Cloud Services.
When an Agent is only used for relaying, 30 simultaneous connections are available, and Flight uploads and downloads can occur simultaneously. If the Agent is a relay and a transfer endpoint, the Agent's relaying capacity is reduced.
By default, outbound UDP connections from the Agent relay use the 49221-49421 port range. To use the Agent relay with Flight, you must restrict the outbound UDP traffic to a single port (49221). This change impacts all UDP traffic, sending both Flight and non-Flight traffic over a single port, regardless of destination.
To configure an Agent relay:
Flight Gateway
Flight CLI
Specify one or more Agent relays in the configuration file or on the command line:
sigcli --relay <relay_URL>
In your Manager, enable the Web Transfer API with default settings and set an authentication method for the Agent relay.
A tunnel allows remote Agents located behind uni-directional firewalls to securely communicate with Agents outside the firewall. A tunnel is established between specified Agents in the sigsetup.inf file by default during Agent installation. Usually the Manager is one of these Agents, although users can specify other default tunnels applied to all Agents by editing the default Agent configuration during installation. Only TCP transfers are supported when using tunnels.
To configure Agent tunnels:
To add a tunnel to an Agent through the command line:
You can specify an HTTP protocol server and an external port when communicating outside a firewall. Select Enable HTTP Protocol Server and Register External Port and specify the port number for each on the proxy Agent.
Note: You cannot set the port number to 80 or 443 as these ports must remain available to the Manager.
The Manager Event Broker is a Signiant service that allows the Manager to monitor non-native jobs among a set of specified Agents. A message broker running on each Signiant Agent enables communication between the Event broker and the Agent on which the event broker is enabled: Agents publish events to the message broker (that the Event broker is monitoring) and receive commands from the Manager. The primary Agent and the secondary Agent will both publish events to the Agent message broker service, but only the secondary will receive commands via the Agent message broker.
By default the Event Broker is enabled and configured with default values.
On the Events tab you can define the Event Time to Live (hours), which specifies the number of hours the event message is kept.
To view Managers connected to the Agent, click Show.
To disconnect a client from the Agent, select an Agent in the list, and click Disconnect. Enable the option in the Disconnect dialog to remove the Manager as a permitted Agent in the Access Entity on the Agent's Remote Access tab.
Job monitoring allows you to check the status of external Agent to Agent jobs, and Content Transfer Engine jobs via the Agent list. Specific monitoring can be enabled for one or both job types to monitor external jobs associated with an Agent.
Monitoring is available for all job types, except jobs that have been initiated by the monitoring Manager, or jobs that do not have the necessary details in the job event and statistics record to generate a job record on the Manager.
An Agent's external job monitoring status is displayed on the Agent list:
If the External Job Monitor column is empty, the Agent is not configured to monitor external jobs.
When Agents are configured for monitoring, you can enable monitoring in the View menu at Administration > Agents > List. Select Disconnect to disable monitoring. You can only disable monitoring for clustered Agents on the Agent's Network tab at Administration > Agents > List.