B2B Integration 10.4 | Administering and Monitoring B2B Transactions | Managing File Transfers with ActiveTransfer | Administering ActiveTransfer with Command Central | Managing Virtual Folders | Configuring Additional Settings for a Virtual Folder
 
Configuring Additional Settings for a Virtual Folder
You can configure additional settings for a virtual folder.
* To configure additional settings
1. On the navigation pane, select Virtual folders.
2. On the Virtual folders page, click on the virtual folder for which you want to configure additional settings, and specify the required details:
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:
i. Select Partner.
ii. Select a partner from the list or type a new partner name.
iii. 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.
If you select SFTP protocol, type the Private key path, Private key Password, and select Two-factor authentication if you want to enable a check for two or more authentication types.
*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 Users, Roles, and Groups.
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.
3. (Optional) Click to configure pagination for virtual folders, specify the following details, and click Apply:
*No. of folders to display: Type the no. of folders for display in the Virtual folders page.
*Count folder depth up to: Type the folder depth upto which you want to apply the folder count. The folder depth value is 1 for root folder and 2, 3, and so on for subfolder depths.
For example, if No. of folders to display is 100 and Count folder depth up to is 3, then each page in the folder frame displays 100 folders with a depth of 1, 2, or 3. All sub folders after depth level 4 will be displayed but not be considered for pagination.
4. Click Save.
The virtual folder is updated with the additional settings.
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