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On-prem enterprise gateway installation

Hi All,    I have several on-prem tabular/multi-dimensional models and I'm just trying to get my head around the Power BI Enterprise/On-Prem Gateway so that I can automatically refresh this data ni...
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    10 years ago

    Hi Anonymous,

    In your scenario, you can install on-premises gateway on a machine that can be left running all the time. Once the gateway is installed and connected, you are able to make use of it to connect to multiple on-premises data sources on multiple machines. Just make sure that the machine installing on-premises gateway and the machines having multiple data sources are joined into a same domain.

    In addition, as stated in this article, you are able to add third-party data sources such as IBM db2, MySQL and so on to the on-premises gateway.


    Thanks,
    Lydia Zhang

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Anonymous
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10 years ago

Hi Anonymous,

In your scenario, you can install on-premises gateway on a machine that can be left running all the time. Once the gateway is installed and connected, you are able to make use of it to connect to multiple on-premises data sources on multiple machines. Just make sure that the machine installing on-premises gateway and the machines having multiple data sources are joined into a same domain.

In addition, as stated in this article, you are able to add third-party data sources such as IBM db2, MySQL and so on to the on-premises gateway.


Thanks,
Lydia Zhang