Connecting securely to private endpoints
A private endpoint is an application that is running on premises. Connect your integrations to your private endpoints by synchronizing connection details in the cloud with an on-premises agent.
Before you begin
- Read the concept information in Secure connectivity to private endpoints.
About this task
The integrations that you create in IBM® Integration Bus on Cloud might need to interact with private endpoints on premises, such as a database or IBM MQ. You must enable network connectivity so that your integrations can communicate securely with your private endpoints. You configure your private endpoints in the cloud, then download that configuration. An agent, which is part of IBM Integration Bus version 10.0.0.2 or later, uses that configuration to enable communication between your integrations and private endpoints.
The process of connecting to your private endpoints differs slightly depending on whether you are setting up network connectivity for the first time, creating another endpoint configuration, updating the host name and port for an existing configured endpoint, or deleting an endpoint configuration. When you create your first endpoint configurations, you must create and start the agent, then synchronize the configurations with the agent. If you are creating another endpoint configuration, updating the host name and port of an existing configuration, or deleting an endpoint configuration, you update and synchronize the configurations with the agent.