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FME Flow Hosted connects to on-premise engines with remote engine service

  • May 1, 2024
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missp29
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Hi All,

We have FME Flow (and Hosted) 2023.2.

I would like to set up a FME Flow Hosted instance. The instance will have engines configured both on Cloud and on-premise. I am not very sure if the FME Flow Hosted instance can connect to the remote on-premise engines through so-called remote engine service. 

I read a discussion of the topic in this Forum below. 

It appears to be negative. But the discussion was 9 months ago. Not sure if it is still valid today. 

As the FME Administrator's Guide states, “Customers of FME Flow Hosted can also connect to Remote Engine Services.”

https://docs.safe.com/fme/html/FME-Flow/WebUI/Remote-Engine-Services.htm#:~:text=Customers%20of%20FME%20Flow%20Hosted,Flow%20installation%20behind%20a%20firewall.

But it is still not very clear and definite. 

Therefore. can anyone shed some light on this?

 

Thanks

-John

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merlinegeorge
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  • merlinegeorgeSafer
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  • October 27, 2025

Hello John,

FME Flow-Hosted connection with the remote engine on either an on-premises or cloud-based virtual machine is supported. The steps for installing the remote engine, creating its connection to the core host, and running job translations remain the same as they would be for an on-premises or in-cloud FME Flow core.

No  access changes need to be made on Core [in this case flow-hosted] because all the requests originate from the core side. However, we should ensure HTTPS port access/whitelist the flow-hosted URL, in case the remote engine is hosted in a restrictive environment.

Also, in this setup, you’ll need to resubmit a license request for the remote engine. Please follow this article https://support.safe.com/hc/en-us/articles/26442329152141-Leverage-Remote-Engine-Service-in-FME-Flow#:~:text=links%20to%20them.-,Installing%20with%20FME%20Flow%2DHosted,-You%20might%20want for steps for licensing


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