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Region Selection

SocketXP Cloud Gateway is hosted in the following regions:

  • us-central (Iowa, U.S.) Default Region
  • eu (Frankfurt, Germany)

By default, SocketXP agent connects to the SocketXP Cloud Gateway located in the us-central region.

Note

The country, state or province where the SocketXP Cloud Gateway is hosted in a region may change without notice based on the cloud resource availability in that region.

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Authentication Token

Sign up in the region specific SocketXP Portal page to get a region specific authentication token to login/connect your devices with the SocketXP Cloud Gateway in that region.

US-Central (Default Region)

Sign up at https://portal.socketxp.com.

Europe Region

Sign up at https://portal.eu.socketxp.com.

Region Specific Auth-Token

You cannot use the authentication token provided by a SocketXP IoT Cloud Gateway in one region (say, for eg: us-central) to login or connect a device to a SocketXP IoT Cloud Gateway in another region (say, eu). You need to sign-up in the region specific portal page to get a region specific authtoken. Use the region specific authtoken to login/connect a device to the gateway in that region.

Command Examples:

To select a specific region, use the "--region" option as shown below:

Login

$ socketxp login [authtoken] --region "eu"

Connect

SSH Service: 

$ socketxp connect tcp://127.0.0.1:22 --region "eu"

Connected to SocketXP Cloud Gateway.
Access the TCP service securely using the SocketXP agent in IoT Slave Mode.
HTTP Service: 
$ socketxp connect http://127.0.0.1:8080 --region "eu"

Connected to SocketXP Cloud Gateway.
Public URL -> https://abc123.eu.socketxp.com

Sample Config.json file:

$ cat /etc/socketxp/config.json

{
"region" : "eu",
"tunnels" : [
  {
      "destination": "tcp://127.0.0.1:22"
  },
  {
      "destination": "http://127.0.0.1:8080",
      "subdomain": "techron-abc123456789",
      "custom_domain": "dev.example.com"
  }
]
}