In The Shortcut Guide to Secure, Managed File Transfer you'll learn about traditional and emerging concerns related to file transfers, including the ad-hoc.
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A right facing arrow to the left of a name indicates hidden subtasks. When you click on the arrow, it faces to the lower right and subtasks are displayed. For example, the Designer page has three main tasks: Transfer, Source, and Target. An arrow to the left of Transfer indicates that at least one transfer has been created, likewise for Source and Target.
Click on the Transfer arrow to display names of transfers. To open the tab for a task in the navigation tree, click the task. You can also right click the task and then select the Open button. For example, on the Designer page, to create a new source, click Source, likewise for Transfer and Target. To edit an existing source, transfer, or target, click its name. To close the active tab, click the Close icon on the right side of the top banner. To close all tabs except the active tab, select Close Others from the drop-down menu to the right of the Close icon.
To close all tabs, select Close All from this menu. You can drag and drop a source icon and one or more target icons into the respective regions on the target page. You must drag and drop the icon; using the name does not work. The main tab on the Monitoring page is the Dashboard, which is always open.
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The Dashboard has four regions: In the top right corner of each region is an Expand icon. Clicking this icon expands the region to fill the entire console and displays additional details. To return to the Dashboard, click the Collapse icon in the top right corner of the expanded region. You can also change accessibility settings from the login screen by clicking Accessibility in the upper right corner.
Fusion Middleware Control supports screen readers and provides standard shortcut keys to support keyboard navigation. You can also view the console pages in high contrast or with large fonts for better readability. Previous Next JavaScript must be enabled to correctly display this content. This chapter includes the following sections: Screens shown in this guide may differ from your implementation, depending on the skin used.
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Any differences are cosmetic. What You Can Do with Oracle Managed File Transfer You can perform various operations, such as scheduling, file encryption, resubmitting transfers, purging data, and many more such operations by using Oracle Managed File Transfer. Oracle Managed File Transfer lets you perform the following operations during the transfer process: Scheduling Resubmitting Attaching inline or referencing Compression and decompression Encryption and decryption Archiving, renaming, and deletion Purging transfer instances and files Pausing and resuming Securing with OWSM policies For more information about resubmitting transfers, see Resubmit a Transfer.
Oracle Managed File Transfer lets you track and troubleshoot file deliveries transfer instances based on the following: Success, frequency, and failure statistics Metrics, recent errors, file finder, and active deliveries Error information table Active delivery progress table Reports for individual deliveries For more information, see Monitoring Oracle Managed File Transfer. Oracle Managed File Transfer lets you transfer files to and from many endpoint types: File and FTP based endpoints: Transfer files from or to a remote sFTP server. SOAP web-services based endpoints: Transfer files from or to Oracle Service Bus web service endpoints.
Transfer files from or to Oracle Data Integrator web service endpoints. Transfer files from or to Oracle B2B for Healthcare endpoints. Transfer files from or to Oracle Cloud Service. Transfer files from or to Oracle WebCenter Content.
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Oracle Managed File Transfer is especially good for: Transfer from a single source with fan-out to many targets. Detailed auditing and recording of all transfers. Advanced security for transfers. Oracle SOA Suite is especially good for: Orchestration or complex integration, such as fan-in from multiple sources. Integration with enterprise systems such as messaging or ERP.
Manual tasks, content based routing, or transformations. B2B is especially good for: Scenarios in which additional semantics, such as AS2, are required. Components of Oracle Managed File Transfer The components of Oracle Managed File Transfer comprise of artifacts, servers, tools for monitoring, WLST command-line utilities, metadata repository, and various standard interfaces to communicate with source and target endpoints.
Sources, Targets, and Transfers When you create a file delivery structure using the Designer page of the Oracle Managed File Transfer Console, you create three types of artifacts: A source , which defines an origin of files A target , which defines a destination of files A transfer , which associates a source with one or more targets An artifact defines the configuration for parts of a file delivery structure.
Using various artifact properties, you can define additional file delivery behavior: Files with specific name and extension patterns can be included or excluded. Transfers can be limited to specific times or time windows. Files can be compressed, decompressed, encrypted, or decrypted. Files can be decompressed.
Evaluating & Selecting a Secure, Managed File Transfer Solution
Files can be archived, renamed, moved, or deleted. Security Oracle Managed File Transfer provides security by: Artifact management Metadata management Key management Deployment history display Transfer management Embedded server management Callout management Event notification management Archiving of runtime instances and transferred files Purging of runtime instances and transferred files Transfer priorities Cloud services For more information, see Oracle Managed File Transfer Utilities. Interfaces Oracle Managed File Transfer uses various standard interfaces to communicate with source and target endpoint types, including: File Handlers File handlers perform these tasks: Copy files to file transfer staging areas, which are called sources.
Retrieve files from file transfer destinations, which are called targets. Designers Designers perform these tasks: Create, read, update and delete file transfer sources. Create, read, update and delete file transfer targets.
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Deploy and test transfers. Monitors Monitors perform these tasks: Use the Dashboard and reports to ensure that transfer instances are successful. Pause and resume lengthy transfers. Troubleshoot errors and resubmit transfers. View artifact deployment details and history.
If you've read the previous two paragraphs and thought, "Yes, this is my organization," then you've found the right book. I wrote this book specifically for organizations that need to move data from place to place, and need to do so in a secure, auditable, managed fashion, no matter what kind of data they're moving.
You will also learn about the different file transfer scenarios that may apply to your business, as well as the security and management requirements of each. Common File Transfer Myths As I work with consulting clients and as I speak with IT professionals at various conferences and tradeshows, I encounter more than a few misconceptions and bad assumptions related to file transfer.
Some of these myths range from relatively minor misunderstandings to extremely major beliefs that actually hold back the person's entire organization. Let's play "Mythbusters" and examine some of these myths. Mapping Business Requirements to Technical Capabilities - Creating Your File Transfer Shopping List By this point, you're probably ready to start considering a secure, managed file transfer solution for your company, or even for a specific department, division, or project.
Before you start doing Google searches on "managed file transfer," however, you need to have a solid list of your requirements in mind. Although a lot of managed file transfer solutions are remarkably similar in basic capabilities, each of them does offer unique features that, depending on your needs, may be advantageous or disadvantageous to your organization.
In this chapter, I'll examine specific business requirements that you may have and translate those to the technical requirements of a file transfer solution. It's important for me to acknowledge that I can't determine which of these business requirements are important for your business; that's up to you.
What I can do, however, is cover the ones that are important to a variety of businesses, explain why each one might be important, and let you use that information to construct your own shopping list for file transfer capabilities. Evaluating and Selecting a Secure, Managed File Transfer Solution By now, you're ready to construct your file transfer shopping list, if you haven't done so already. With that list in hand, you can start evaluating file transfer solutions. Chapter 4 focuses on the task of actually evaluating a file transfer solution against your capabilities shopping list.
I'll show you a technique for scoring different solutions on your list, and cover some of the often-overlooked details that can save you a lot of time and money—after all, nobody likes to acquire a solution only to find out weeks or months later that the features you bought aren't quite what you were hoping for. Not a member yet?