1.2 How the OpenText Cloud Bridge Agent Works

Your OpenText Cloud Bridge data center is configured as part of your OpenText SaaS product licensing (for example, OpenText Identity Governance) based on the information you provide in the technical questionnaire. Data centers are a conceptual representation of your OpenText Cloud Bridge Agent instance. You install one or more Agents on your local systems, then configure data sources and data source connections as needed to connect to your on-premises data sources. If you want to collect data from multiple data centers, you must install an OpenText Cloud Bridge Agent in each on-premises data center.

The following diagram illustrates the standard OpenText Cloud Bridge Agent configuration in your on-premises environment, regardless of the other components you might have installed.

Figure 1-1 Overview of OpenText Cloud Bridge Agent Configuration On Premises

For the numbered components on the above diagram, see the following additional information:

  1. Requires access to the AWS™ (Amazon® Web Services™) download site to download the Agent package on port 443. The customer runs a custom curl/bash command. The curl portion downloads the container image and the main part of the installation script and then executes it.

  2. DataCenter.json file – Contains customer-specific data center information. Defines the connection information between the OpenText™ Cloud Bridge Client and a single Agent instance.

  3. bridge-agent.yml file – Contains configuration settings for the OpenText Cloud Bridge Agent.

  4. Host server – OpenText™ Cloud Bridge Agent runs in a Docker® or Podman container on this server.

  5. Secure communication components – Configurable on the Agent host server.

  6. Port 9092 – Facilitates the secure outbound data transfer from the on-premises Agent to the OpenText Cloud Bridge API in the OpenText AWS™ cloud (*.aws.confluent.cloud).