The product you use to manage the transfer of business documents in your trading network is ActiveTransfer.

ActiveTransfer offers a browser-based user interface that enables administrators to manage file transfers, servers, and users; browse and search audit logs of file transfers; and examine analytics that show metrics, comparisons, and file upload and download activity. The interface also enables you to configure actions that are triggered based on criteria you specify. For example, you could set up an action to execute a specific Trading Networks service if a file transfer is successful. ActiveTransfer also offers a web client for end users who need to upload and download files to and from ActiveTransfer Server.

ActiveTransfer Server resides behind a firewall and performs file transfers. ActiveTransfer Gateway is a reverse proxy server that acts as an intermediary between the Internet and the internal ActiveTransfer Server for secure file transfer.

ActiveTransfer Support package runs on Integration Server and provides functionality for monitoring file transactions and managing ActiveTransfer Server, ActiveTransfer Gateway, users, post-processing events, scheduled actions, and data files and folders. You invoke this functionality through the ActiveTransfer user interface.

ActiveTransfer uses virtual folders for file transfers. You can organize these virtual folders by partner name, and you can associate ActiveTransfer users with partners. If you are using ActiveTransfer with Trading Networks, ActiveTransfer Server retrieves the list of partners from Trading Networks. If you are not using ActiveTransfer with Trading Networks, you can define your own partners.

You can use virtual folder definitions in scheduled and post-processing events instead of using the direct IP address for remote endpoints involved with file transfers. In this way, you can manage all endpoints centrally through virtual folders. If you change an endpoint address, you need only edit it once in the virtual folder definition and the change will be automatically reflected in all events that access that endpoint.

ActiveTransfer supports HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, FTPS (SSL), SFTP (SSH), SCP, WebDAV, and WebDAVs protocols, and offers complete data security and support for the most stringent encryption standards, including SSL and integrated PGP. ActiveTransfer enables accelerated file transfers that use a server’s bandwidth to the maximum capacity regardless of network latency or distance.