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Determine if you require a firewall gateway

For most environments, using the firewall gateway is not required when deploying the Tivoli Monitoring software. However, in some cases, the firewall gateway is the only way to traverse the complex firewalls in a network.

The following section describes the scenarios when the firewall gateway is required. In addition, the section outlines the optimal locations for the firewall gateway.

Use the firewall gateway for any of the following scenarios:

Network address translation (NAT) alone is not a reason to use the firewall gateway, which is content-neutral and can proxy any TCP connection. In most cases, NAT processing can be handled by the PIPE protocol (IP.PIPE or IP.SPIPE) without the firewall gateway.

For detailed information on installing and configuring the firewall gateway, see Firewalls.


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