For many SmartSense users, outbound internet access from the HST server is not readily available. For those users, the HST Gateway has been created to simplify the process of uploading bundles to Hortonworks. The Gateway allows customers with complex network environments to deploy a single Gateway that supports multiple internal HST Server deployments. With this deployment, direct outbound internet access from the HST server is not required for uploading bundles, only access from the HST Server to the Gateway. The Gateway is the only component that requires outbound internet access and will take on the responsibility of uploading all bundles to Hortonworks Support, or the SmartSense SFTP environment for SmartSense Analysis.

The following section will outline how the Gateway is deployed and used with HST.