Initial Configuration

Agent Initialisation Key

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When you first run the Agent, after a new installation, the Agent will be in an ‘Initial Startup’ mode. In Initial Startup mode the client asks you to enter an ‘Initialisation Token’ before allowing you to continue.

The Initialisation Token is a generated code that Paygate uses to identify individual customers, and Agent will not function if it is absent.

Visit https://app.paygate.local/admin/customers/details and copy the “Agent Initialisation Token” for your customer. This is a one-time process required to begin using the Agent.

You will need to be logged into Paygate on an account with the Roles: “Customer Administrator” and “Configure Agent”. For security purposes, Paygate employee accounts cannot access this on your behalf.

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The format of the initialisation key is a long sequence of text consisting of a mixture of upper and lower case letters, numbers and the special characters - : . | / = +, ending with a ISO date-time (E.g. 2020-07-01T14:16:36.0504415Z)

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Once the initialisation token has been entered, the user will be presented with the home dashboard, although by default no watched folders will have been configured (shown by notification on the page).

Note the Service Status indicator on hte right hand side of the page. There are several indicators that the service is running successfully or not. Once folders have been configured, the correctly configured dashboard should match the image below.

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Error States

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Shown above is how the dashboard will show that the current configuration does not match the expected configuration, indicating that changes have been made to the configuration database outside of Agent. To fix this, ensure that the configuration settings are correct and save the settings again.

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Shown above is how the dashboard will indicate that it cannot communicate with Paygate. If this error occurs, check that the network connection on the user machine is configured correctly, and if the issue persists contact Paygate Support.

Initial Settings

By default, the Agent will be able to connect to Paygate without any additional configuration, although it is possible to configure the Agent to go through a proxy or transfer data using secure FTP.