Unidirectional gateways

A unidirectional database, helpdesk, or other gateway allows alerts to flow from a source ObjectServer to a destination application. Changes made in the source ObjectServer are replicated in the destination application, but changes made in the destination application are not replicated in the source ObjectServer.

A simple example of a unidirectional gateway is the Flat File Gateway, which reads alerts from an ObjectServer and writes them to a flat file. This example architecture is shown in the following figure.