Centralized management: Provides a centralized interface to manage file transfers, servers, and users. You can set up transfer definitions to facilitate the transfer of entire directories or individual files. You can also control access to file transfers on a per-user basis.

Transaction monitoring and analytics: Provides a centralized interface to browse and search audit logs of all file transfers. A variety of embedded analytics provide insight into all the file transfers happening within your environment by showing metrics, making comparisons, and summarizing key activity.

Business event triggers: Provides the ability to trigger scheduled or post-processing actions based on file transfer criteria that you specify. For example, an action can be configured to have webMethods Integration Server automatically activate an internal business process, such as order entry or invoicing, if a file transfer is successful. Other actions include executing a file operation (for example, copying, renaming, deleting, encrypting, or zipping the file), executing a script or a Trading Networks service, sending a Broker notification, sending an email, or writing the file to the database.

Multi-protocol support: Provides full support for HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, FTPS (SSL), SFTP (SSH), SCP, SMB (client only), WebDAV, and WebDAVs protocols.

Proxy server support: Provides full support for file transactions to HTTP, HTTPS, and SOCKS proxy servers for protocols that support these proxy server types.

Built-in encryption and security: Offers complete data security and support for the world’s most stringent encryption standards, including SSL and integrated PGP. You can apply global and per-user IP address restrictions. You can also apply policies that can restrict activity during specific days of the week and time of day.

Client support: Provides a variety of client interfaces that end users can use to send files to ActiveTransfer Server. End users can upload or download files using a standard web browser. ActiveTransfer also supports third-party clients such as those for FTP, FTPS, and SSH, enabling partners to transfer files using their existing technologies.

Direct integration: Integrates files directly into your infrastructure. The tight integration of ActiveTransfer with Integration Server, webMethods Broker, and webMethods Trading Networks provides a single platform for interactions based on services, events, and files.

Acceleration: Accelerated file transfers use a server’s full bandwidth regardless of network latency or distance. Acceleration is performed over HTTPS and does not require opening of ports in the firewall. File transfers through FTP can also be accelerated by tunneling them through HTTPS. Bandwidth can be controlled either globally or at an individual user level, which ensures that file transfers only occupy a certain percentage of the bandwidth available without affecting other resources on the network.

Gateway support: ActiveTransfer Gateway functions as a reverse proxy server, which acts as an intermediary between the Internet and the internal ActiveTransfer Server for secure file transfer.

Failover support for file transfer operations: Multiple ActiveTransfer Servers can be connected to an ActiveTransfer Gateway. If one server node connected to an ActiveTransfer Gateway fails, another node connected to the ActiveTransfer Gateway automatically takes over the operation of the failed node provided the nodes point to the same ActiveTransfer database. Note that failover is not supported for post-processing events that fail when an ActiveTransfer Server goes down or for post-processing events that have not started after a file transfer is complete because the ActiveTransfer Server went down.

Session replication: A group of ActiveTransfer Servers can be configured to replicate an ActiveTransfer client session that is in progress on one node, across all other ActiveTransfer Server nodes in the group. So, if one ActiveTransfer Server goes down, the client is directed to another ActiveTransfer Server node in the group and the client session continues without the need for a client re-login.

Parallel processing of multiple event threads: Provides you the option of selecting parallel processing of files in multiple threads instead of single-thread, sequential processing of files in an event. Parallel processing results in quicker and more efficient file processing.

Integration with webMethods Trading Networks: Provides you the option of using a single solution, webMethods Trading Networks, to manage partners for ActiveTransfer events. In addition, Trading Networks users can use ActiveTransfer as a delivery method to deliver and receive documents. For details, see the ActiveTransfer documentation.

Integration with Software AG Command Central : Provides you the option of using Command Central to manage all ActiveTransfer Server instances from a single user interface. With Command Central, you can start, stop, or restart the WmMFT package and ActiveTransfer Server instances; manage ports; manage licenses; access and download ActiveTransfer Server logs.