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Active-active vs. active-passive high-availability clustering

Many organizations that can’t afford unexpected downtimes use high availability (HA) clusters to keep mission-critical business processes running smoothly. HA clusters typically come in two types: active-active and active-passive. While both HA clusters can provide a high level of resiliency, they’re designed for different use cases.

Topics: JSCAPE MFT, Clustering, Load Balancer, High Availability, Configuration, Load

How To Copy Files To Azure Blob Storage On A Predefined Schedule

For today's tutorial, we're going to show you how to configure JSCAPE MFT Server so that it will copy files from a local directory to Azure Blob Storage on a predefined schedule.

Topics: JSCAPE MFT, Managed File Transfer, Tutorials, Triggers

Upload Files to Azure Blob Storage with FTP/S | JSCAPE

A lot of automated business processes out there use FTP or FTPS to upload data to a server. What if most of it is unstructured data like videos, images, and audio files, and, instead of an FTP/S server, you would like Azure Blob Storage as the final destination for all that uploaded data. That should be fairly easy if your FTP/S service is running on JSCAPE MFT Server. We'll show you how to set up MFT Server for that particular purpose in this post.

Topics: JSCAPE MFT, Managed File Transfer, Tutorials

How to Import & Export User Accounts | JSCAPE

Last time, we taught you how to copy users from one JSCAPE MFT Server instance to another using the Promote feature. That's the easiest way to copy users if you have a network connection between those two MFT Server instances. But what if you don't? Well, you can use the Export and Import features instead.

Topics: JSCAPE MFT, Managed File Transfer, Tutorials

How to Copy Users From One MFT Server to Another | JSCAPE

In JSCAPE MFT Server version 12.1 and higher, server administrators can already take advantage of easier ways of copying user accounts from one JSCAPE MFT Server instance to another. They can now use either the Promote feature or the Export and Import features. In this quick tutorial, we'll show you how to use the former.

Topics: JSCAPE MFT, Managed File Transfer, Tutorials

Using AES-256 To Encrypt Files You Upload To Your S3 Trading Partner

Files you upload to an Amazon S3 trading partner through JSCAPE MFT Server are normally stored in plaintext. If you want to encrypt those files to minimize the risk of a data breach, one way to do that is by using AES-256 Amazon S3 server-side encryption. We'll show you how to use this particular service in this post; and if you want to request a free trial, click here.

Topics: JSCAPE MFT, Managed File Transfer, Business Process Automation, Tutorials, Secure File Transfer

Sync Windows Folder with AWS S3 Bucket | JSCAPE

In previous posts, we taught you how to set up an Agent service and trading partner. We also taught you how to install an agent on a remote Windows host devoid of any file transfer service. Let's now put that agent to work. In this post, we're going to teach you how to configure JSCAPE MFT Server so that that remote Windows host can synchronize files with an Amazon S3 bucket.

Topics: JSCAPE MFT, Managed File Transfer, Business Process Automation, Tutorials, Triggers

Using AWS KMS To Encrypt Files You Upload To Your S3 Trading Partner

Files you upload to an Amazon S3 trading partner through JSCAPE MFT Server are normally stored in plaintext. If you want to encrypt those files to minimize the risk of a data breach, one way to do that is by using the AWS Key Management Service or AWS KMS. We'll show you how to use this particular service in this post.

Topics: JSCAPE MFT, Managed File Transfer, Business Process Automation, Tutorials, Triggers

Install MFT Server Agents on Linux Hosts | JSCAPE

Last time, we taught you how to install a JSCAPE MFT Server Agent on a remote Windows host with no file transfer service. But what if that remote host is a Linux machine? This post will help you with that.

Topics: JSCAPE MFT, Managed File Transfer, Business Process Automation, Tutorials

How to Install MFT Server Agents on Windows | JSCAPE

Time to continue our tutorial on using JSCAPE MFT Server Agents. If you've been following our recent blog posts, you know that agents offer an easy way of exchanging files with hosts that don't have any file transfer service. We already taught you how to set up an Agent service and trading partner. So, this time, we're going to teach you how to install an agent on a remote host and then have that agent connect to our Agent service.

Topics: JSCAPE MFT, Managed File Transfer, Business Process Automation, Tutorials