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Chapter 1 Introduction : Gateway Server Overview

Gateway Server Overview
TIBCO BusinessConnect Gateway Server is located in the demilitarized zone (DMZ) outside of the company firewall. It receives B2B communications directly from the Internet and performs SSL validation. The firewall between the Gateway Server and the rest of your system protects against the threat of malicious communications.
TIBCO BusinessConnect Gateway Server does not depend either on TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks or on TIBCO Runtime Agent installation; however, it still needs TIBCO Enterprise Message Service™ to communicate with the Interior server.
The Gateway Server installation already includes gateway services such as FILE and HTTP. You can assign more gateway services such as SSHFTP, FTPS, TCM, PartnerExpress, and so on if you also have these plug-in products installed and configured. TIBCO BusinessConnect Gateway Server is also installed by TIBCO Universal Installer using the same TIBCO BusinessConnect release package, from which you can choose only the Gateway Server component to be installed on a machine located in DMZ. See TIBCO BusinessConnect Installation and Configuration.
TIBCO BusinessConnect Gateway Server requires a Gateway Token to start. The Gateway Token contains initial information to start Gateway Server, including the management and data ports, the TIBCO Enterprise Message Service transport configurations, which are required for communication between the Gateway Server and Interior Server. For more information, see TIBCO BusinessConnect Concepts.
You can create a Gateway Token in BusinessConnect > Gateway > Gateway Tokens in TIBCO Administrator. After the token is created, you can export it and import this token to the Gateway Server machines where you start the Gateway Servers.
Figure 1 depicts a diagram of the Gateway Server and Interior Server communications.
Figure 1 Gateway and Interior Server Communication
The Gateway Server has the following features:
The Gateway Server uses secure TIBCO Enterprise Message Service connection or secure or plain streaming DMZ Data Transfer Protocol (DDTP) to transfer data received from trading partner to the Interior network. No direct connection is initiated from DMZ to the Interior network.
After the Gateway Server is shut down, all the data and configurations in memory is vanished. Therefore, there is no more data and configuration existing on Gateway Server machines.
Gateway Servers are manageable from TIBCO Administrator through secure JMX management protocol. You can assign different gateway services, such as HTTPS, SSHFTP, FTPS, PartnerExpress, TCM, and so on, to different Gateway Servers, and start or stop these services independently from TIBCO Administrator.
After a Gateway Server instance restarts, all gateway services already assigned to this Gateway Server restart automatically, with all the relevant services configurations being pulled from the Interior Servers automatically.
For more details about the Gateway Server, see "Interior Server and Gateway Server Architecture" in TIBCO BusinessConnect Concepts, Chapter 2, "TIBCO BusinessConnect Architecture."

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