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Scheduling an automated file transfer for files matching a regex

One of the reasons why our clients love Triggers is because this feature makes it so easy to set up unmanned, automated file transfers that run overnight or over the weekend. But sometimes, you'll want to specify more than just a schedule. One particular client, for example, wanted to restrict a scheduled download to a certain set of files, which he wanted to specify using a regular expression or regex. This post details the steps we recommended for him to achieve that.

Topics: JSCAPE MFT, Managed File Transfer, Business Process Automation, Tutorials, Triggers, FTPS

How to apply a digital signature on AS2 MDNs

To ensure non-repudiation of AS2 receipts, you need to affix digital signatures to your AS2 Message Disposition Notifications or MDNs. We'll teach you how to do that in this post.

Topics: JSCAPE MFT, Managed File Transfer, Business Process Automation, Secure File Transfer, AS2

AS2 message tutorial on applying digital signatures

Overview As promised in our last post, we'll be teaching you how to set up your AS2 Server to use digital signatures when sending AS2 messages. Let's dive into the digital signature tutorial now.

Topics: JSCAPE MFT, Managed File Transfer, Business Process Automation, Tutorials, AS2

Setting up client certificate authentication on an AS2 server

Overview Not all AS2 servers authenticate trading partner clients through usernames and passwords. Many use digital certificates. If you want to know how to set up this kind of authentication on your AS2 server, read this post.

Topics: JSCAPE MFT, Managed File Transfer, Business Process Automation, AS2

How to address the IT skills gap in manufacturing

While the IT skills gap is sometimes exaggerated, there are some industries where the tech talent shortage is really a major issue. One of those industries is manufacturing. Despite growing adoption of advanced technologies like artificial intelligence, analytics, robotics and automation, which are often perceived to eliminate jobs, manufacturers are actually faced with a widening skills gap. Meaning, there are actually more jobs to fill.

Topics: JSCAPE MFT, Managed File Transfer, Business Process Automation, SFTP, Triggers, FTPS, AS2

Monitoring reverse proxy services

Overview When a node in your reverse proxy service cluster goes down, you might want to be notified right away. This will allow you to take immediate action and bring your cluster back into optimal condition before something else goes wrong. In JSCAPE MFT Gateway, you can get an email notification through its built in Health Monitor. If you want to learn more about this particular feature, read on.

Topics: JSCAPE MFT, Reverse Proxy

Configure a High-Availability cluster for TCP/UDP services

Overview [Last updated July 20, 2019] When your server downtimes start becoming more frequent, that probably means it's time for some major changes. One option would be to set up a high availability cluster. If you want to know how to do that, you've landed on the right place. In this tutorial, we'll guide you in setting up a high availability cluster for FTP, HTTP, SFTP, SMTP, and other TCP/UDP services.

Topics: JSCAPE MFT, Reverse Proxy

Excluding passive IP for internal FTP/S connections to your reverse proxy

Overview Last time, we tackled the problem system administrators encounter when their passive FTP or FTPS connections have to pass through a NAT firewall or router. A similar problem can happen when you're dealing with the same type of connections and a reverse proxy. It gets even more complicated when you have to deal with both external and internal users. Let me show you how to deal with that.

Topics: JSCAPE MFT, Tutorials, FTPS, FTP, Reverse Proxy

Setting up an FTPS server behind a firewall or NAT for PASV mode data transfers

It’s never easy to set up an FTP server the moment firewalls get involved. But it gets even more complicated once you start using the secure version of FTP, known as FTPS. In this post, we’ll talk about the problem you’ll usually encounter when your FTPS server is behind a firewall and your client attempts to perform a file transfer using passive mode or PASV.

Topics: JSCAPE MFT, Secure File Transfer, FTPS, FTP

How to install MFT gateway agent on windows

In this post, we'll walk you through the steps of installing the JSCAPE MFT Gateway Agent on a Windows machine and adding that agent on MFT Gateway. Delegating network requests to an agent can come in handy if the Windows box running a service you want to create a reverse proxy for is located behind a firewall that doesn't allow any connections from external sources.

Topics: JSCAPE MFT, Secure File Transfer, Reverse Proxy