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How to monitor SFTP directories & download files

In this tutorial, we're going to show you how to monitor directories on a remote SFTP server and then download any new files on a periodic basis.

Topics: JSCAPE MFT, Managed File Transfer, Videos, Tutorials, SFTP

Using a remote WebDAV service as network storage for your MFT server

One advantage of using JSCAPE MFT Server as your file transfer server is that it's so easy to extend the storage capacity of your user accounts to one or more remote services and storage solutions. And in this post, we're going to show you how to use a remote WebDAV service as a network storage for your JSCAPE MFT Server instance.

Topics: JSCAPE MFT, Managed File Transfer, Tutorials

How to migrate the JSCAPE MFT server between windows hosts

Some of the most common questions we get at our Help Desk revolves around how to migrate an existing JSCAPE MFT Server instance from one host to another. One of the easiest ways to do that is by using the Failover Synchronization module. In this post, we're going to use that feature to demonstrate a migration from a Windows host to another Windows host.

Topics: JSCAPE MFT, Managed File Transfer, Tutorials

How to transfer files uploaded to an FTP/S server to an amazon s3 bucket

Let's say you have an FTP or FTPS server and you want to transfer files uploaded to it to an AWS S3 bucket. You can do that with just a few clicks if your FTP/S service is running on JSCAPE MFT Server. Let me show you how it's done.

Topics: JSCAPE MFT, Managed File Transfer, Tutorials

How to use windows SMB share as network storage

When a user uploads files via FTP/S, SFTP, HTTP/S, or any supported file transfer protocol to JSCAPE MFT Server, those files don't have to be stored on the same machine as that server. Instead, you can have those files redirected to a variety of network storage options like a remote SFTP service, Amazon S3, Dropbox and several others. In this post we're going to show you how to store uploaded files to a remote Windows SMB share.

Topics: JSCAPE MFT, Managed File Transfer, Tutorials, SFTP

How to schedule an AS2 file transfer

In a previous post on automated AS2 file transfers, we showed you how to configure JSCAPE MFT Server so that it would monitor a directory for newly added files and then, each time a new file is detected, transmit that file to an AS2 trading partner. Today, we're going to try something different. We're going to set up JSCAPE MFT Server to carry out an AS2 transmission on a pre-defined schedule.

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

How to test SFTP connectivity to remote hosts

Let's say you're trying to connect with a remote SFTP host, perhaps one of your own SFTP servers or one owned by one of your trading partners. While there are tools like nmap and netstat that you can use to test SFTP connectivity, you can also use JSCAPE MFT Monitor.

Topics: JSCAPE MFT, Videos, Tutorials, SFTP

How to enable an AFTP service in your server

JSCAPE's Accelerated File Transfer Protocol or AFTP service is the perfect solution for organizations looking to achieve high speeds in file transfers suffering from poor network conditions like high latency and packet loss. In this post, we're going to show you how easy it is to enable the AFTP service in your JSCAPE MFT Server instance.

Topics: JSCAPE MFT, Managed File Transfer, Tutorials, Accelerated File Transfer

How to move downloaded files on a trading partner

Let's say a trading partner wants you to move files you download from their server to a designated archive folder on that same server. This is a B2B file transfer, so it has to be automated. Here's what you can do to achieve that using JSCAPE MFT Server.

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

How to ignore specific errors in exception handling

In a previous post, we taught you how to set up triggers that catch and handle trigger errors thrown by other triggers. Now, earlier this week, we received a query from a customer who had this kind of trigger but wanted to ignore a particular trigger event. That is, they didn't want their error handling trigger to execute its succeeding action(s) if the error thrown was a certain type of error. Here's one way to do it.

Topics: JSCAPE MFT, Managed File Transfer, Tutorials, Triggers