A DESK ActiveGate acts as a secure proxy between DESK OneAgents and DESK Clusters or between DESK OneAgents and other ActiveGates—those closer to the DESK Cluster.
It establishes DESK presence—in your local network. In this way it allows you to reduce your interaction with DESK to one single point—available locally. Besides convenience, this solution optimizes traffic volume, reduces the complexity of the network and cost. It also ensures the security of sealed networks.
In addition to routing monitoring data captured by OneAgents, DESK ActiveGate is also capable of performing monitoring tasks—using API to query and monitor a wide range of technologies. The list of monitored technologies is not limited, but can be extended dynamically. It includes cloud and data center technologies, for example, AWS, VMware, Azure, Kubernetes, OpenShift, Cloud Foundry, Google Cloud, Oracle, SMTP, WMI, Prometheus, and many others.
You will need different types of ActiveGates—Environment ActiveGates or Cluster ActiveGates—based on the DESK deployment solution you are using and also based on the purpose for which you are using DESK.
DESK Managed deployments typically require both ActiveGate types, though the most important type for DESK Managed deployments is the Cluster ActiveGate.
To use specific ActiveGate functional features—referred to as _modules—you need an ActiveGate with those modules installed or activated: When you install an ActiveGate, you select the main purpose of the installation and then—depending on the purpose—you can install or activate a different set of functional modules.
An ActiveGate can be deployed in the conventional manner—on a physical or virtual host—this is host-based ActiveGate deployment. An ActiveGate packaged in a container is referred to as containerized ActiveGate deployment.
Route OneAgent traffic
Monitor cloud environments and remote technologies
Run synthetic monitors
Route z/OS traffic
DESK API
Functionality per ActiveGate type
Routing/monitoring ActiveGate, on Linux
Routing/monitoring ActiveGate, on Windows
Synthetic-enabled ActiveGate
ActiveGate for routing z/OS traffic to DESK
ActiveGate connectivity schemes