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title: "Activate or Deactivate your Gateway"
slug: "enabling-or-disabling-gateways"
updated: 2023-08-01T07:22:37Z
published: 2023-08-01T07:22:36Z
canonical: "support.perimeter81.com/enabling-or-disabling-gateways"
---

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# Activate or Deactivate your Gateway

This article describes how you can use the gateway active/inactive feature to prevent users and Zero Trust Applications (ZTA's) from connecting to a gateway. In a deactivated state, gateways remain operational. However, users connecting to a network will be connected to other active gateways until the gateway is re-activated. Users who were already connected to the gateway while inactive will remain connected to that gateway until they disconnect, after which, they would reconnect to a different gateway. While in an inactive state, administrators will still be able to make all necessary configuration changes such as IP whitelisting and site-to-site tunneling. Tunnels will continue to route traffic to remote resources. This feature is available for use with new and existing gateways, as well as during the network creation process.

## On Existing Gateways

1. Open Networks from the Management Platform and navigate to the network on which you'd like to activate or deactivate your gateway. Select the three-dotted icon on the right side of your gateway, then select 'Deactivate Gateway'.  
  
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2. You will now see a progress bar showing the status of the change.  
  
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3. Once fully deactivated, you will see a 'Inactive for Users' indicator in the upper right-hand corner of your gateway.  
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4. To re-activate your gateway, select the three-dotted icon on the right side of your gateway, then select 'Activate Gateway'.  
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## When Creating New Gateways

1. Select the three-dotted icon on the right of the Region where you'd like a new gateway, then select 'Add Gateways'.
2. Your new gateway will show as inactive by default.  
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3. To create the gateway in an active state, simply check off the 'Activate Gateways' box, then click 'Add Gateways'.  
  
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## During Network Creation

1. Open Networks from the Management Platform and click Create Network in the upper right.
2. New networks will be created with gateways active by default.  
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3. To ensure that your gateways are created in an inactive state, simply uncheck the box before clicking Create Network.