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  • Introduction
    • Overview
    • System requirements
    • Starter license limitations
    • Upgrading
    • License
    • Version history
  • Installation
    • Installing on Windows
    • Installing on Linux
    • Installing on Linux Z/OS
    • Installing on Solaris
    • Installing on AIX
    • Installing on Mac OS X
    • Installing an Agent
    • Auto-starting in Linux and Solaris 9 environments
    • Auto-starting in Solaris 10 environments
    • Running as non-root user in UNIX environments
    • Running under IBM JVM
    • Additional libraries needed for OpenPGP
    • Additional libraries needed for SFTP ciphers
    • Installing a license
    • Running on Java 9 or above
    • Silent Installation MFT Server - Windows
    • Silent Installation MFT Server Agent - Windows
    • Docker instructions - Windows
    • Docker Instructions - Linux
  • Server configuration
    • Starting the MFT Server Service
    • Launching the MFT Server Manager
    • MFT Server Manager Navigation
    • Status
      • Dashboard
      • Action Center
      • Server
      • Network Interfaces
    • Creating a domain
    • Starting a domain
    • Stopping a domain
    • Viewing domain status
    • Adding services
      • Adding an AFTP service
      • Adding an Agent service
      • Adding an AS2 service
      • Adding an FTP/S service
      • Adding an HTTP/S service
      • Adding an OFTP service
      • Adding an SFTP/SCP service
      • Adding a TFTP service
      • Adding a WebDAV/S service
    • Setting SFTP/SSH authentication mode
    • Using public key authentication in SFTP/SSH
    • Setting logging preferences
    • Viewing log data
    • Running a search against log data
    • Reporting on log data
    • Adding users
    • Defining user templates
    • Importing, exporting, and promoting users
    • Generating a User Report
    • Searching in the Users module
    • Emailing all users
    • Defining user quotas
    • Specifying what the user sees in the Web UI
    • Assigning domain administrators
    • Setting authentication
      • Setting authentication preferences
        • Authenticating with Microsoft Active Directory
        • Authenticating using custom authentication API
      • Using Multi-Factor Authentication
      • Web SSO authentication
        • Google example using OpenID Connect
        • Okta example using SAML
    • Adding anonymous user accounts
    • Defining virtual paths
    • Virtual path permissions
    • Using groups
    • Setting IP based access
    • Setting time based access
    • Setting banned files
    • Setting connection preferences
    • Backing up server configuration files
    • Defining a failover server
    • Migrating MFT Server
    • Compliance settings
    • Monitoring server resources using JMX
    • Performing backups of server configuration data
    • Installing haveged
    • Memory tuning
    • Trading Partners
      • Overview
      • Emailing trading partners
      • Export trading partners
      • Importing trading partners
      • View Triggers
      • Adding Trading Partners 
        • AFTP trading partner
        • Agent trading partner
        • Amazon AWS trading partner
        • Amazon S3 trading partner
        • AS2 trading partner
        • Box trading partner
        • DropBox trading partner
        • FTP trading partner
        • FTPS Explicit trading partner
        • FTPS Implicit trading partner
        • Google Cloud trading partner
        • Google Cloud Storage trading partner
        • Google Drive trading partner
        • IBM Cloud trading partner
        • IMAP trading partner
        • Local Directory trading partner
        • MFT REST trading partner
        • Microsoft Azure Blob Service trading partner
        • Microsoft Azure Data Lake trading partner
        • Microsoft Azure Data Lake Gen2 trading partner
        • Microsoft Azure File Service trading partner
        • Microsoft OneDrive/SharePoint trading partner
        • OFTP trading partner
        • POP3 trading partner
        • Redwood trading partner
        • S3 Compatible trading partner
        • SFTP/SCP trading partner
        • SMB trading partner
        • SMTP trading partner
        • Splunk HTTP Event Collector trading partner
        • TFTP trading partner
        • WebDAV trading partner
  • AS2 (Applicability Statement 2)
    • Overview
    • Enabling AS2
    • Receiving AS2 messages
    • Managing AS2 trading partners
    • Sending AS2 messages
    • Viewing AS2 messages
    • Deleting AS2 messages
    • Common AS2 message errors
  • OFTP2 (ODETTE File Transfer Protocol 2)
    • Overview
    • Enabling OFTP2
    • Receiving OFTP2 messages
    • Managing OFTP2 trading partners
    • Sending OFTP2 messages
    • Viewing OFTP2 messages
    • Deleting OFTP2 messages
    • Considerations when generating keys for OFTP
  • Trigger management
    • Overview
    • Adding triggers
      • Trigger lifecycle
    • Using trigger templates
    • Triggers history
    • JMS
    • Settings
    • Using time based triggers
    • Manually executing time based triggers
    • Writing conditions
    • Testing conditions
    • Event types
    • Action types
    • Function types
    • Defining custom action types
    • Creating custom function types
    • Exporting and importing triggers
    • File Transfer Script Language
      • Escape sequences
  • Web based file transfers
    • Overview
    • Enabling web based file transfers
    • Web user interface
    • Customizing the web interface
    • Performing automatic login
    • Specifying logout URL
    • Adding custom forms on file upload
    • Enabling web document viewer
    • Drop zones
    • URL branding
    • Searching and tagging documents
    • Sharing Files
  • Email transfers
    • Overview
    • Enabling email transfers
    • Emailing files
    • Managing contacts
    • Viewing Ad-hoc activity
  • Monitoring directories
    • Overview
    • Creating a directory monitor
  • Accelerated file transfer (AFTP)
    • Overview
    • Adding AFTP service
    • Connecting to AFTP service
  • Data loss prevention (DLP)
    • Overview
    • Creating DLP Rules
    • ICAP settings and violations
    • Enabling DLP
    • Capturing DLP events
  • Java Management API
    • Overview
    • Requirements
    • Creating a domain
    • Creating an account
    • Creating a group
    • Creating a network storage
    • Stopping and starting a domain
  • REST API
    • Client REST API
    • Management REST API
  • Command line utilities
    • Overview
    • js-addadmin
    • js-adddirmonitor
    • js-adddomain
    • js-adddropzone
    • js-addgroup
    • js-addgroupdir
    • js-add-server-key
    • js-addserviceaftp
    • js-addserviceftp
    • js-addservicehttp
    • js-addservicesftp
    • js-addservicewebdav
    • js-adduser
    • js-adduserdir
    • js-admin-ip-access
    • js-as2purge
    • js-as2util
    • js-backuplog
    • js-client-configuration
    • js-copyusers
    • js-database-configuration
    • js-db-migration
    • js-deldomain
    • js-delgroup
    • js-deluser
    • js-enablehttp
    • js-enablehttps
    • js-exportusers
    • js-importcontacts
    • js-import-log-searches
    • js-importusers
    • js-ipaccess
    • js-kickuser
    • js-oftppurge
    • js-passwd
    • js-pausedomain
    • js-reset-admin-authentication
    • js-resumedomain
    • js-runtrigger
    • js-sendmessage
    • js-server-configuration
    • js-setawsregion
    • js-setdomainquota
    • js-setuserquota
    • js-shutdown
    • js-shutdowndomain
    • js-startdomain
    • js-stopdomain
    • js-syncstate
    • js-triggersreport
    • js-update-email-resources
    • js-update-web-resources
    • js-users
    • js-web-configuration
  • WebDAV support
    • Enabling WebDAV service
    • Establishing a connection
  • Network Storage management
    • Overview
    • Mapping a network storage to a virtual path
    • Adding Network Storage
      • AFTP network storage
      • Agent network storage
      • Amazon S3 network storage
      • Box network storage
      • DropBox network storage
      • FTP network storage
      • Google Cloud Storage network storage
      • Google Drive network storage
      • IBM Cloud network storage
      • MFT REST network storage
      • Microsoft Azure Blob Service network storage
      • Microsoft Azure Data Lake network storage
      • Microsoft Azure Data Lake Gen2 network storage
      • Microsoft Azure File Service network storage
      • Microsoft OneDrive/SharePoint network storage
      • S3 Compatible network storage
      • SFTP/SCP network storage
      • SMB network storage
      • TFTP network storage
      • WebDAV network storage
  • Enabling High Availability
    • Overview
    • Configuring a centralized global datastore
    • Migrating existing data to a centralized global datastore
    • Connecting to the centralized global datastore
    • Enabling load balancing
  • Overview module
    • Overview
    • Statistics
    • Sessions
    • General
  • Key management
    • Overview
    • Server keys
      • Overview
      • Generating a key
      • Obtaining a trusted certificate
      • Importing third party certificates
      • Importing a key
      • Importing a JSON key file
      • Exporting a certificate, public or private key
      • Revoking a key
      • Generating a certificate revocation list
      • Verifying against a certificate revocation list
    • Host keys
      • Overview
      • Importing a host key
      • Importing a JSON key file
      • Exporting a host key
      • Revoking a key
      • Verifying against a certificate revocation list
    • Client keys
      • Overview
      • Generating a key
      • Importing a certificate and/or public key
      • Importing a JSON key file
      • Exporting a certificate and/or public key
      • Viewing client key details
      • Revoking a key
      • Verifying against a certificate revocation list
    • OpenPGP keys
      • Overview
      • PGP encryption primer
      • PGP compatibility matrix
      • Generating a key pair
      • Importing public key
      • Importing a JSON key file
      • Exporting public and private keys
      • Encrypting files and virtual paths
      • Decrypting files
  • Synchronization
    • Overview
    • Trading Partner Synchronization Action
    • Synchronizing through Agents
  • MFT Server Manager settings
    • Overview
    • Manager Service
      • Manager Service
      • Logs
      • Authentication
        • Multi-Factor Authentication
        • Web Single Sign-on
          • Google example using OpenID Connect
          • Okta example using SAML
      • Administrators
        • Managing administrative roles
        • Managing administrative tags
    • Datastore
    • Miscellanous settings
      • Web settings
      • Email settings
      • Failover settings
      • Search index settings
      • JMX
    • Updates