Basic Gateway Settings

The basic gateway settings are found under Configuration > Gateway Settings. They define high-level settings that apply to the entire gateway.

A unique name for this Ignition installation. It is used to distinguish between this server and others on the network when working with multiple Ignition installations.

The authentication profile used to secure access to the Gateway, as well as to the Designer.

A comma-separated list of roles, one of which will be required in order to log into the Gateway's configuration section. These roles roles should be defined in the System Authentication Profile.

Required roles to access the Gateway's status section. Leave blank to remove security restrictions for this section.

Required roles to access the Gateway's home section. Leave blank to remove security restrictions for this section. Note that this is only used to limit access to the homepage itself, each project will have its own authentication profile for limiting access to the runtimes.

Forces the clients to use SSL encrypted communication when talking to the gateway. It is recommended that you purchase and install a genuine SSL certificate if you use this option. See the guide in the Deployment section of this manual.

Whether or not alert properties such as acknowledgment should be persisted across Gateway restarts.

Controls how the HTML that launches Clients and Designer functions. If set to JavaScript, the links will use javascript to attempt to launch directly using the Java browser plugin. If set to Direct, the links will be direct links to the *.jnlp files that launch the Client or Designer.

Which versions of the Java Runtime Environment will be allowed to web-launch clients and designers.

These advanced properties affect launched Clients and Designers on Windows OS only. These flags control whether or not the Java Swing windowing subsystem may use Direct3D and/or DirectDraw. Disabling these features may incur a performance penalty, but might be required for some video cards that have faulty DirectX drivers.

These 4 properties (enable, backup folder, backup times, and retention count) control the Gateway's scheduled backup system. This system is capable of automatically making a Gateway backup and storing it to a folder path, which may be a network path. When you enable this system, you must specify a destination folder. This may be a local folder, for example "C:\backups" or "/var/backups" or a network path such as "\\fileserver\backups".

The scheduled backup system works on a schedule that is specified using UNIX crontab syntax. This is a standard format for specifying a basic schedule. The format consists of five space-separated fields, one for minute, hour, day-of-month, month, and day-of-week. The special character * means "all". Slashes can be used to indicate that values should be stepped, for example, */5 in the minutes field means "every 5 minutes", or 0:00, 0;05, 0:10, etc. Some examples:

5 * * * *	Once an hour, on the :05 minute. 0:05, 1:05, 2:05, etc.
/15 * * *	Every 15 minutes, on the quarter-hour. 0:15, 0:30, 0:45; 1:00, 1:15, etc.
30 5 * * Mon	Every Monday at 5:30am
* 6-14 * * *	Every minute, but only between 6am and 2pm
/5 8-17 * 1-5	Every 5 minutes between 8am and 5pm but only during the week (1-5). 0=Sunday, 1=Monday, etc.
0 1 5 * *	Once a month, on the 5th day at 1am

If something is wrong with the scheduled backup system it will store error messages to the Gateway logs.