Configuring Additional Settings for a Virtual Folder

Field

Description

Folder name

Type a different virtual folder name.

Partner

You can perform one of the following:

If you do not want to associate the virtual folder with a partner or your enterprise, select No partner.

If you want to associate the virtual folder with your enterprise, select Enterprise.

If you want to associate the virtual folder with a partner:

1. Select Partner.

2. Select a partner from the list or type a new partner name.

3. Click Create.

Location

This folder has a physical location

Select this option if you want to associate the virtual folder with a physical location.

Local file path

To specify a file path in your local file system, select this option, and type the complete file path or browse the file path location. For example, FILE://c:/ProjectFolder/download/ or FILE:////host/SharedFolder/.

Remote path

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, or HTTPS protocol, type the keystore path in Keystore, Keystore password, and Key password.

For the SFTP protocol, select Two-factor authentication if you want ActiveTransfer to check both the public user name Password and the private Keystore Password when establishing a connection with an SFTP server. If either of these passwords is missing, the connection fails.

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

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 High availability upload recovery if you want ActiveTransfer Server to recover from a upload 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.

Permissions

Add a user, role, or group to the virtual folder and configure the following permissions as required: User name, Role name, or Group name for a user, role, and group respectively, View, Download, Upload, Delete, Create folder, Delete folder, Rename, Resume, Share/Publish, or Quota limit (MB).

Note:
The Share/Publish permission is disabled for remote path locations by default.

For more information about users, roles, or groups to associate with virtual folders, see Overview.

Encryption/Decryption

File-based encryption

Select this option, and browse or type the file path to the public PGP key in the Public PGP key location box. For example, “C:\keylocation\simple.key” on Windows and “/usr/keylocation/enterprise.key” on UNIX.

Note:
You can use the wm.mft.security.pgp:generatePGPKeyFiles service to generate an OpenPGP key pair. For details, see webMethods ActiveTransfer Built-In Services Reference.

File-based decryption

Select this option, and browse or type the file path to the private PGP key in the Private PGP key location box. For example, “C:\keylocation\simple.key” on Windows and “/usr/keylocation/enterprise.key” on UNIX.

Note:
You can use the wm.mft.security.pgp:generatePGPKeyFiles service to generate an OpenPGP key pair. For details, see webMethods ActiveTransfer Built-In Services Reference.

Also, type the password for the private PGP key in the Private PGP key password box.