PerspioAgent

PerspioAgent is a self-managed data gateway that provides access to the PerspioData connectors within a private network. This feature facilitates access to data stored in systems with no publically accessible endpoints - such as an ERP hosted within a customer's network. Pesrpio can facilitate easy access to data, even if the system housing the information does not have any publicly available interfaces.

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Is your data available from a public endpoint?

If your data is available through a public internet address, Data Connectors should be able to access it without any need for PerspioAgent.

Private Endpoints: If the target source data is not exposed publicly and is only accessible from remote endpoints (such as within a corporate network), these sources can be consumed by the deployment of PerspioAgent, typically deployed on a dedicated VM within a customer’s DMZ. PerspioAgent is effectively a portable, containerised data relay mechanism that extends the capability of PerspioData into a private environment communicating over a secure tunnel.

How does it work?

PerspioData and PerspioAgent leverage Azure Data Factory services. Azure Data Factory is a cloud-based ETL and data integration service that manages data-driven workflows (pipelines) for orchestrating data movement and transforming disparate data at scale.

PerspioData: For any environment that is publicly accessible, we leverage integration runtime (IR). The IR is the compute infrastructure Azure Data Factory pipelines use to provide data-integration capabilities across different network environments. See Integration runtime overview for details about IRIntegration runtime overview.

PerspioAgent: For any environment that is not publicly accessible, we leverage self-hosted integration runtime (SHIR). The SHIR is a lightweight runtime installed within the corporate network that seamlessly enables the communication between Azure Data Factory and the customer’s private network. A SHIR can run copy activities between a cloud data store and a data store in a private network. It can also dispatch transform activities against compute resources in an on-premises or Azure virtual network. The installation of a SHIR needs an on-premises machine or a virtual machine inside a private network.