To specify a file path in a remote server, select this option, a protocol (transport mechanism) from the list, and type the file path location. For example, FTP://host:port/DestinationFolder/.  Type a User name and Password for the remote server.  If you select FTPES, FTPS, SFTP, or HTTPS protocol, type the certificate alias for the Keystore alias(Optional).  For the SFTP protocol, select Two-factor authentication if you want ActiveTransfer to authenticate the user with both password and private key when establishing a connection with an SFTP server. You can configure the preferred cipher from the list of supported cipher in Preferred cipher field. Additionally, if you want to remove a cipher from the supported cipher list, then you set configure it on the Excluded cipher field.  If you select SMB protocol, you can select the SMB version that you want to connect to. Additionally, you need to select SMB 2.0 to use the services of the SMB version 2.0 or later. The SMB protocol supports controlling of SMB dialect variants and encryption of data for SMB3. Dialects are versions of the SMB protocol that are defined based on additions and changes relative to a previous version. SMB client and server negotiate the matched set of capabilities based on the SMB dialect selected. Fields | Description/Action | Dfs enabled | The Distributed File System (DFS) functions provide the ability to logically group shares on multiple servers and to transparently link shares into a single hierarchical namespace. | Data encryption enabled | Adds the capability to make data transfers secure by encrypting data. |
Note: You can add the property mft.smb.v2.dialect.default to the property.cnf file and assign any of the following dialects. However, the dialect selection on the ActiveTransfer user interface takes priority over this property file, if you have made a selection in the ActiveTransfer user interface.  SMB_2_0_2  SMB_2_1  SMB_3_0  SMB_3_0_2  SMB_3_1_1  If you want to configure the VFS with Amazon-S3 storage type, then use the following fields: Fields | Description/Action | Bucket name | Specify the Amazon-S3 bucket name. | Folder path | Specify the folder path for the bucket which you define in the Bucket name. Note: If you do not specify the folder path, then the root of the bucket will be considered by default. | Region name | Choose the AWS ( Amazon Web Services ) region from the drop-down list. This is the location where your bucket resides. | Access key ID | Specify the access key id to access the Amazon-S3 bucket. . | Secret access key | Specify the secret key which corresponds to the Access Key ID that has the access to Amazon-S3 bucket. |
 If you want to configure the VFS with Hosted-S3 storage type, then use the following fields: Fields | Description/Action | Bucket name | Specify the Hosted-S3 bucket name. | Folder path | Specify the folder path for the bucket which you define in the Bucket name. If you do not specify the folder path, then the root of the bucket will be considered by default. | Access key ID | Specify the access key id to access the Hosted-S3 bucket. . | Secret access key | Specify the secret key which corresponds to the Access Key ID that has the access to Hosted-S3 bucket. | Endpoint | Specify the Endpoint to access the Hosted-S3 bucket. | URL Style | Choose one of the following addressing models: Path. In this URL model, the hostname is s3-hosted.example.com and the bucket name is specified in the path as /bucket-name/. For example, https://s3-hosted.example.com/bucket-name/ Virtual host. This URL model involves including the bucket name as a subdomain of the hostname. For example, https://bucket-name.s3-hosted.example.com/ |
Note: New remote protocols will be added to the Virtual folders page exclusively. Scheduled and post-processing actions can opt for a virtual folder option that directs to the remote location. This will be applicable from Hosted-S3 onwards.  If you want to configure the VFS with Azure storage type, then select the AZURE-FILE or AZURE-BLOB from the drop-down list. Note: ActiveTransfer currently supports only AZURE-FILE shares and AZURE-BLOB containers.  To configure the VFS with AZURE-FILE, use the following fields: Fields | Description/Action | Authentication type | Specifies the authentication information that must be sent to the Azure storage type for authorizing the access to specific resources. File shares supports Shared Key and Shared access signature (SAS) authentication type. Choose one of the following ways to provide the authentication information: Shared Key: The shared key type passes a header with each request that is signed using the respective storage account access key. Enter the values for the following fields: Account name: Specify the account name that corresponds to the Azure account for the AZURE-FILE location. Account key: Specify the key which you create at the Azure portal for the corresponding Account name. Shared access signature (SAS): The shared access signature type provides secure delegated access to resources in your storage account without compromising the security of your data. Additionally you can control what resources the client may access, what permissions they have on those resources, and how long the SAS is valid, among other parameters. Account name: Specify the account name that corresponds to the Azure account for the AZURE-FILE location. SAS token: The SAS token is a string that you generate in the Azure portal for an account. | Location | Specify the location where the folder for the file shares resides. |
 To configure the VFS with AZURE-BLOB, use the following fields: Fields | Description | Authentication type | Specifies the authentication information that must be sent to the Azure storage for authorizing the access to resources. The AZURE-BLOB supports Shared Key, Shared access signature (SAS), and Anonymous public access authentication types. Choose one of the following ways to provide the authentication information: Shared Key: The shared key type passes a header with each request that is signed using the respective Storage Account Access Key. Enter the values for the following fields: Account name: Specify the account name that corresponds to the Azure account for the blob location. Account key: Specify the key which you create at the Azure portal for the corresponding Account name. Shared access signature (SAS): The shared access signature type provides secure delegated access to resources in your storage account without compromising the security of your data. Additionally you can control what resources the client may access, what permissions they have on those resources, and how long the SAS is valid, among other parameters. Account name: Specify the account name that corresponds to the Azure account for the blob location. SAS token: The SAS token is a string that you generate in the Azure portal for an account. Anonymous public read access: The anonymous public read access type provides you with read access within a publicly accessible container without authorizing the request. | Storage sub-type | The below mentioned are the two types of storage sub-type: Block Blob: It stores the unstructured data such as files, media, images, documents, and so on in blocks. Append Blob: It appends the unstructured data such as files, media, images, documents and so on. | Location | Specify the Azure container folder path for the Location field. | Upload Options | Storage size | Specifies the size of each part of the file which gets uploaded to the blob container. | Azure headers | Add the additional header parameters to set the extra metadata for the blob container. Click  to add the Header key and Header value information respectively. The following are the list if supported headers:  cacheControl  contentType  contentEncoding  contentLanguage  contentDisposition |
Note: For more information on AZURE-FILE shares and AZURE-BLOB containers, refer Azure documentation. Note:
For a list of known endpoint specific limitations, see
Limitations.  Select Use proxy if you want to route file transfers to remote servers through a proxy server, and select one of the following options: Global proxy settings: If you want ActiveTransfer to use the default proxy server alias set up in Integration Server or ActiveTransfer. Select proxy alias: If you want to use a specific proxy server alias for the virtual folder, then select the appropriate proxy server alias to use from the available list.  Click Test Connection to check the connection to the remote location.  Select High availability download recovery if you want ActiveTransfer Server to recover from a download that was not completed.  Select Passive if you want to enable ActiveTransfer Server to connect to a remote server using the passive mode. ActiveTransfer Server uses the active mode by default. This option is applicable for FTP, FTPS, and FTPES protocols.  Select Force CWD to extract directory if the FTP server you are connecting to allows file operations only on the current directory. Enabling this option forces a change to the target directory before executing the file operations. Note: Sending MKDIR or CWD to a directory with no files results in error. Note: Sending RMD after deleting all files in a directory results in error. |