Preparing for a MultiPress Dedicated or Hybrid Cloud environment

Before installing or migrating MultiPress to a Dedicated or Hybrid Cloud environment, Dataline schedules a technical preparation meeting. During this meeting, we collect the information required to configure the cloud environment correctly and plan the installation or migration.

Please prepare the information below before the meeting.

Project contacts

• Responsible person
  Who is responsible for the MultiPress installation and follow-up within your company?
  Please provide the contact details of the project manager or main contact person.

• External IT partner
  Do you work with an external IT partner?
  If so, please provide the contact details of the person we may contact when technical assistance is required.

Users and workstations

• Operating systems
  Do your employees use Windows computers, Mac computers or both?

  Access to the MultiPress Cloud environment is provided through Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) and/or through the MultiPress Web Client.

  Mac users may need to install a Windows Remote Desktop application.

• Concurrent users
  How many users will work in MultiPress simultaneously?

• User list
  Please provide a user list, preferably as an Excel file, containing the following information for each user:

  • First name
  • Last name
  • Email address
  • Language and country

Modules and external applications

• Modules and integrations
  Which MultiPress modules or external applications are used within your environment?

  Examples include:

  • API integrations
  • Financial links or converters
  • Dashboards
  • Webshops
  • Other external applications or integrations

Authentication

• Authentication method
  Do you use Active Directory and/or Single Sign-On (SSO)?

VPN and network information

• VPN configuration
  Is a VPN connection required for one or more locations?

  If so, please provide the following information:

  • The brand and type of VPN used.
  • Whether the VPN supports site-to-site tunnelling.
  • Whether VPN tunnels already exist between different locations.

• WAN IP addresses
  Please provide the WAN IP address or IP range for each location.

• Local resources
  Please provide a list of local resources that must remain accessible from the cloud environment through the VPN.

  For each resource, include the internal IP address, IP range or a network diagram if available.

  Examples include:

  • NAS devices or file servers
  • External hard drives
  • Local printers
  • Other network resources

Web server connections

• Internal web servers
  Do you use the MultiPress web server for one or more of the following services?

  • Time registration
  • Dashboards
  • Production applications
  • Connectors
  • Other MultiPress web applications

  Please also indicate whether the web server is used for:

  • Internal access only.
  • External access secured with an SSL certificate.

External web access

If external access to an internal web server is required, Dataline will configure a reverse proxy within the MultiPress Cloud environment.

To complete this configuration, please provide a subdomain that can be used for the connection. This subdomain must point to your web server and the appropriate port.

Create a CNAME record that points to:  web-shared.multipress.cloud  . Dataline will connect this subdomain to the reverse proxy and securely forward the traffic to your internal web server.