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Multiple Gateways
Again. If you have one server and one gateway don't install a new one. Just configure it in Power Bi Service with the admin account that installed the gateway. I think you can login in the gateway in case you don't remember that account.
If you want to paralell traffic and administrate all flows in single place it's a good idea to install a new gateway in a different server on the same network. Be sure to read how to install and build the cluster because you need to do stuff before installing. As same as before, you will still need to go in the gateway settings in Power Bi Service to configure the new mysql source.
You can publish your report from any computer besides the gateway servers. The configuration for it is completely out of your environment. That's why I have mentioned to install the mysql driver on the server and restart it to help the gateway understand its conection. If you don't do that you won't be able to configure the source in Power Bi Service.
I hope it's clearer now 🙂
Hi. You shouldn't install two Gateways on the same machine. You can just use that one and configure the new source in Power Bi Service. In mysql case you might need to install a driver to let the computer understand mysql connections and restart it.
Remember, you can add admin accounts on Service in case you want more than one account to manage that.
In addition, just for the heads up, even if you are using a different server, you can create a cluster of gateways instead of building different ones.
I hope that helps,
In other words, I should be able to configure the "new" gateway alongwith the "old" gateway, making a cluster, correct? This won't affect the "old" gateway, correct? Even though the datasets published are from two different sources and people.
Also, does the data needs to be published from the main Server to configure the Gateway or is it possible to do it even though it was published by my User/PC?
