1.2 How the Cloud Bridge Agent Works

Your Cloud Bridge data center is configured as part of your OpenText SaaS product licensing (for example, Identity Governance as a Service) based on the information you provide in the technical questionnaire. Data centers are a conceptual representation of your 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 need to collect data from multiple data centers, you will need to install a Cloud Bridge Agent in each on-premises data center.

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

Figure 1-1 Overview of 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 download site to download the CBA 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 – Contains customer-specific data center information. Defines the connection information between the CBC and a single CBA instance.

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

  4. Host server – CBA runs in a Docker or Podman container on this server.

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

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