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Agents are typically used to enable synchronizations involving hosts that don't have any file transfer service running on them.
For example, you can use agents to synchronize between:
Steps for carrying out synchronizations using Agents
Adding an Agent Trading Partner
To add an Agent Trading Partner, go to the Trading Partners module and click Add.
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When the Add Trading Partner dialog appears, expand the drop-down list, select Agent, and click OK.
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That should bring up the Add Agent Trading Partner dialog. Specify the following parameters:
Name - an arbitrary name that would identify this trading partner
Agent name - the name of an existing user account whose login credentials will be used to authenticate a remotely installed Agent. Before a remotely installed Agent can establish a connection to this JSCAPE MFT Server instance, it will have to authenticate first. It can only authenticate using the login credentials of a user account assigned to a trading partner.
You may also enter Company and E-mail information into their respective fields to further identify this trading partner.
Click OK to add the Agent Trading Partner.
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