# Forest Admin IP Addresses to Whitelist **URL:** \ **Category:** Help me!\ **Tags:** setup, datasource\ **Created:** [April 7, 2023, 6:50pm UTC](https://community.forestadmin.com/t/forest-admin-ip-addresses-to-whitelist/6171 "2023-04-07T18:50:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![hsheldon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8491ac/32.png) [@hsheldon](https://community.forestadmin.com/u/hsheldon)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2023, 6:50pm UTC](https://community.forestadmin.com/t/forest-admin-ip-addresses-to-whitelist/6171/1 "2023-04-07T18:50:03Z")
## Feature(s) impacted I’m new and trying to add my first datasource which is a sql server daabase that has a firewall in front of it. Because it’s a production server, we do not want to open up the ports for all IP Addresses. ## Observed behavior I do not know the IP Addresses of Forest Admin to Whitelist so we can let them through. ## Expected behavior ## Failure Logs ## Context - Project name: … - Team name: … - Environment name: … - Agent (forest package) name & version: … - Database type: … - Recent changes made on your end if any: … ---
**Author:** ![Enki](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.forestadmin.com/enki/32/6004_2.png) [@Enki](https://community.forestadmin.com/u/Enki)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2023, 8:34am UTC](https://community.forestadmin.com/t/forest-admin-ip-addresses-to-whitelist/6171/2 "2023-04-11T08:34:40Z")
Hi @hsheldon 👋, During the onboarding, did you click on the “instant setup” (cloud hosted) or the advanced one (agent hosted by you)? ---
**Author:** ![hsheldon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8491ac/32.png) [@hsheldon](https://community.forestadmin.com/u/hsheldon)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2023, 6:01pm UTC](https://community.forestadmin.com/t/forest-admin-ip-addresses-to-whitelist/6171/4 "2023-04-11T18:01:18Z")
Instant Setup. Cloud hosted. I have an ip address to connect to. Just need to know what IP Addresses I should whitelist for it to go through. ---
**Author:** ![anon39848301](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9e5f3/32.png) [@anon39848301](https://community.forestadmin.com/u/anon39848301)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2023, 7:18am UTC](https://community.forestadmin.com/t/forest-admin-ip-addresses-to-whitelist/6171/5 "2023-04-12T07:18:09Z")
Hey @hsheldon, We currently don’t support database IP whitelist in a cloud context. The IP that will connect to your database is dynamic at the moment. I would suggest to switch to self-hosted/Advanced setup for now if the database IP-whitelist is a strong requirement on your end. **However** , this topic is planned on our roadmap, so be sure we will update this thread once this feature is available for cloud-based architecture. ---
**Author:** ![hsheldon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8491ac/32.png) [@hsheldon](https://community.forestadmin.com/u/hsheldon)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2023, 1:08pm UTC](https://community.forestadmin.com/t/forest-admin-ip-addresses-to-whitelist/6171/6 "2023-04-12T13:08:33Z")
If we went to Self-hosted, do you have an EXE installation for Windows? We run Windows based servers. ---
**Author:** ![anon39848301](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9e5f3/32.png) [@anon39848301](https://community.forestadmin.com/u/anon39848301)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2023, 1:28pm UTC](https://community.forestadmin.com/t/forest-admin-ip-addresses-to-whitelist/6171/7 "2023-04-12T13:28:49Z")
All of our self hosted integrations should be compatible out of the box with windows servers. Our agent either are attached to an existing app, or can run as a standalone process using our microservice/nodejs architecture. Let me know if that helps.