About Target-Initiated Distribution Paths

Target-initiated paths for microservices enable the Receiver Service to initiate a path to the Distribution Service on the target deployment and pull trail files.

This feature allows the Receiver Service to create a target initiated path for environments such as Demilitarized Zone Paths (DMZ) or Cloud to on-premise, where the Distribution Service in the source Oracle GoldenGate deployment cannot open network connections in the target environment to the Receiver Service due to network security policies.

If the Distribution Service cannot initiate connections to the Receiver Service, but Receiver Service can initiate a connection to the machine running the Distribution Service, then the Receiver Service establishes a secure or non-secure target initiated path to the Distribution Service through a firewall or Demilitarized (DMZ) zone using Oracle GoldenGate and pull the requested trail files.

The Receiver Service endpoints display that the retrieval of the trail files was initiated by the Receiver Service.

You can enable this option from the Configuration Assistant wizard Security options, see Add a Deployment.