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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

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

Using a remote FTP/S service as network storage for your MFT server

JSCAPE MFT Server's Network Storage module (formerly known as Reverse Proxy) makes it possible to extend the storage of your managed file transfer server to various remote services and storage solutions like SFTP servers, Samba shares, Amazon S3 buckets, Azure Files folders, and many others. This can come in handy when your MFT Server machine has limited storage capacity or if you simply want to store certain user files in another place. One of the supported remote services is FTP/S. If you have an FTP or FTPS server with lots of free storage space and you want to use that as a network storage for your MFT Server, you might want to read this tutorial.

Topics: JSCAPE MFT, Managed File Transfer, Tutorials, Secure File Transfer, FTPS

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

JSCAPE MFT Server's Network Storage module (formerly known as Reverse Proxy) allows you to utilize various remote services and storage solutions as additional storage for your managed file transfer server. This can come in handy when your MFT Server machine has limited storage capacity or if you simply want to store certain user files elsewhere. One of the supported services is SFTP. If you have an SFTP server with lots of free storage space and you want to use that as a network storage for your MFT Server, you should find this post useful.

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

How to set up an SFTP reverse proxy in JSCAPE MFT gateway

Overview An SFTP reverse proxy adds another layer of security to SFTP services. In addition to SFTP's ability to encrypt data in transit and provide 2-factor authentication, an SFTP reverse proxy brings in several other security-related benefits such as hiding user credentials and the identities of your internal servers. An SFTP reverse proxy can be easy to set up and this post will show you how.

Topics: JSCAPE MFT, Tutorials, Secure File Transfer, SFTP, Reverse Proxy

How to send messages to amazon SQS queues using JSCAPE MFT server

In this post, you'll learn how to configure JSCAPE MFT Server to send messages to Amazon SQS queues. Amazon SQS queues are more suitable for MFT Server messages that you want retrieved by receiving applications using a polling (or pulling) method and not pushed out to recipients as soon as the message(s) get published.

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

Sending SMS notifications of JSCAPE MFT server events via amazon SNS

In a previous post, we outlined the steps of setting up JSCAPE MFT Server to publish messages to Amazon SNS. This setting us useful in cases when you want server admins to receive notifications regarding certain events on your managed file transfer server. Now, in that tutorial, the notifications were sent via email. But what if you want to send them through an SMS text message instead? You'll learn how to do that here.

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

How to publish messages to amazon SNS using JSCAPE MFT server

In this post, you'll learn how to publish messages to an Amazon SNS (Simple Notification Service) topic using JSCAPE MFT Server. There could be a couple of reasons why you would want this capability, but one big reason is so that you can get notifications when certain events occur on your server. This will keep you on top of things and enable you to act on them before they turn into issues.

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

How to use google storage as the file storage system of your MFT server

In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to configure JSCAPE MFT Server so that files uploaded to it are streamed directly to Google Cloud Storage. This streaming process is completely transparent to end users, who'll interact with the Google Storage folder as if it were a local folder on the server.

Topics: JSCAPE MFT, Managed File Transfer, Tutorials

Preparing trading partner servers for SFTP automation

Overview In order to keep transactions secure, you and your trading partners likely use SFTP and other encrypted protocols for your automated data exchanges. In this post, I'd like to share a method that can reduce the steps you typically take in applying SFTP automation to certain business processes. Here, you'll learn how to gather remote host credentials into a single entity, which you can later on reuse every time you need to construct another automated process.

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