Accessing the Enterprise Connector Grid Management UI remotely

When you deploy the Enterprise Connector on a Linux host, this step is required. For a Windows host deployment, this step is optional because you can also open the Grid Management user interface locally.

To access the Grid Management user interface from a remote browser:

Enable client certificate authentication.

Fresh installations of 2026.05 and later require this step. Older installations have this setting enabled by default.
1. Open the Grid Management user interface. See Configuring Enterprise Connector.
2. Open Configuration > Routers.
3. Enable Show Host Routers.
4. Select the host router, and click Edit.
5. Set HTTPS Authentication Type to 'Clients may authenticate with certificate'.
6. Repeat these steps for each host router.
  
  If you scale out the Enterprise Connector to multiple hosts, multiple host routers are available.

Create a client certificate for authentication.

For Windows, create a copy of this sample script:

rem Create Grid client certificate for provisioning
								set INSTALLDIR=C:\Program Files\Infor\ION Enterprise Connector
								set CLI=%INSTALLDIR%\tools\grid-cli.jar
								set CLIENTDIR=C:\Temp
								java -jar "%CLI%" -dir "%INSTALLDIR%" certificate clientCreate
								-clientname="Grid Management UI access" -keystoreType="PKCS12"
								-roles="grid-admin" -fileDir="%CLIENTDIR%" -fileName="myclientcert"

For Linux, create a copy of this sample script:

# Create Grid client certificate for provisioning
								INSTALLDIR=/var/infor/IONEnterpriseConnector
								CLI=${INSTALLDIR}/tools/grid-cli.jar
								CLIENTDIR=/tmp
								java -jar ${CLI} -dir ${INSTALLDIR} certificate clientCreate
								-clientname="Grid Management UI access" -keystoreType="PKCS12"
								-roles="grid-admin" -fileDir=${CLIENTDIR} -fileName="myclientcert"

Update the script.
- Set INSTALLDIR to the Enterprise Connector installation folder.
- Set CLIENTDIR to the folder where you want to create the keystore and password file.
Run the script.

Prepare your browser.
1. Import the client certificate keystore that you generated in the previous step into your browser personal keystore.
  
  The procedure depends on the browser.
2. Open this URL in your browser:
  https://<hostname>:<host router https port>/grid/ui/soho
3. If a warning indicates that the Grid SSL certificate is not trusted, accept the exception.