Account Setup & Verification

This section shows you how to get started using Eightwire by following this process to self-register for an Eightwire Account. The Account is created as a trial which is in place for two weeks, so you can get familiar with Eightwire and set up some test data transfers. Your Account switches to a full license after two weeks or when you are ready to work with production data.

Account Settings

Account settings are where you maintain contact details for your account, setup two-factor authentication for your users and manage the time zone that your account uses.

User Security

Learn how to tailor access for each member of your Account. Using Role-based security, each user is assigned a combination of account and project-level permissions. This page details the permissions assigned by Account and Project Role.

Create Users

Learn how to invite and manage members of your organization. This section details the creation of a User with the appropriate account level permissions., through to their verification and first sign on.

Sign In for Users

This page shows how a User logs in to Eightwire — to log in following these steps they must first have verified as a user — details are shown in the section about verification in Create Users.

Project Setup

A Project is a workspace for Datastores and Processes. It provides the business or use case separation within your Account. Assign Users to a Project in the capacity they need by assigning them Project Roles.

Assign Project Users

To assign a user to a project you must have the role of Account Administrator. Each user that is added to a project is assigned a Project role which provides them with specific Project permissions. Refer to our page about managing users for a full description of the roles and their capabilities.

Agent — Architecture for Data Access

Data Access The Agent requires access to your data, otherwise it can't do its job. You should allow specific permissions to the data that you want the Agent to work with and deny access to anything you don't want the Agent to be able to access. It is good practice to only allow access to resources that you want access to and broadly deny access to everything else. You also have full control over detail about the data the Agent accesses through the web portal, please refer to Data Sharing Principles for a summary of object, column, and row level filtering.

Agent System Requirements

Many data repositories are on internal networks behind corporate firewalls. To allow access to that data an Agent installation is required. An Agent is a small piece of software that runs inside a customer's network and provides both read and write data access capability and a secure communications channel to Eightwire's cloud services. If a Data Store uses an Agent, the connection information given should be relative to that Agent, because it is acting on Eightwire's behalf. An Agent does not usually require any modification to your firewall rules in order to operate and is very easy to install and get connected.

Install an Agent

Before installing an Agent, make sure you have the following ready: local administrator privileges on the computer or server where the Agent is to be installed a service account that the Agent will use - created specifically or use the Default NT AUTHORITY\System. Internet access for outbound communication with the Eightwire cloud service.