Managing User Locations

Check Point Harmony Connect is a globally distributed service. When a user with secure Internet Access or Network Access connects to the network, Harmony Connect selects the best service location (PoPClosed Point of Presense (PoP) is the network interface between communicating entities.) from the list of locations approved by the administrator.

  • If the user's location and the service location are in the same country or state, then it is selected.

  • If there are multiple service locations in the user's continent or if there are no service locations in the user's continent , then the service location with the lowest latency to the user's location is selected.

Note - This functionality is irrelevant for Application-Level accessClosed Clientless access to specific corporate applications, such as web, SSH, RDP, tunnel, and database applications., as an overlay network is formed from the user location into the corporate data center, and there is no need to specify the location of the cloudClosed An administrator approved Harmony Connect cloud location that processes the internet and corporate traffic. service in this page.

You can select a number of cloud service accounts locations limited to the license entitlement.

Note - Customers can connect to the locations allowed by their license terms. During the Harmony Connect free trial period, customers can use one cloud service location.

To set the initial cloud service user location:

  1. Go to the Users & Devices page.

  2. Click Cloud Locations> Manage Locations.

  3. In the Manage Cloud Locations window that opens, read the instructions and follow them.

  4. To make changes, click Update.