Managing User Locations

Check PointHarmony 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 (PoP 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 access 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 cloud 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 page or Devices page.

2. Click Cloud Locations.

3. In the Manage Cloud Locations window, follow the instructions.

   

4. Click Update.