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  • 1.  Automic Automation v9 & Axway's Secure Transport Integration

    Posted Nov 14, 2013 05:55 PM

    Hi there, we use Automic Automation v9 at BECU.  We currently use Axway's Secure Transport for all file transfers.  This was selected years ago, based off its secuity protocals, etc.  There are some shortcomings as far as scheduling capibilities goes in the SecureTransport product.  So we are looking to see if Automic Automation Engine with the File Transfer RA would work for us.  Are there users out there that just use Automic products for all their enterprise file transfers?   Are there users out there that use SecureTransport with Automic Automation via Api or webservices?  Or maybe integrated with another File Transfer product.  Any help would be apprecaited. -Eric



  • 2.  Automic Automation v9 & Axway's Secure Transport Integration

    Posted Nov 14, 2013 08:35 PM

    Hi Eric, do you have any API documentation you can share? I can quickly explore the API and tell you if Web services are a good fit.



  • 3.  Automic Automation v9 & Axway's Secure Transport Integration

    Posted Nov 14, 2013 10:08 PM

    Becky, I have put in a request for this with our File transfer sme. I will get in touch just as soon as I hear back from them with the info. Thanks!  :)



  • 4.  Automic Automation v9 & Axway's Secure Transport Integration

    Posted Nov 15, 2013 08:19 AM

    Hi Eric,

    "  Are there users out there that just use Automic products for all their enterprise file transfers? "

    We have been using the FTP RA agent (2.04) for about six months now. We would welcome any questions, or insight to anything you learn on your journey.

    Thanks!



  • 5.  Automic Automation v9 & Axway's Secure Transport Integration

    Posted Nov 18, 2013 04:55 PM

    Robin Stringfellow,

    Are you aware of the FTP v3.0 agent?  It is a lot more powerful.  There is a nice migration tool for moving v2.x jobs to v3.x.  I highly recommend taking a look at it.  I did some training on it awhile back; however, it was the old UC4 brand. I have it on my list to update. In the meantime, here is the list of new features.

     Ease of Use Investments

    UI Redesign for ease of use

    • End to End scenario Documentation
    • Drag n Drop File Browsing and Command Builder to      eliminate the need for scripting
    • Remote file system browsing
    • Advanced options hides complexity

    Intelligence behind the scenes

    • Connection diagnostics
    • Wildcard support
    • Recursive copy/delete
    • If then else

    Upgrade Tool

    Scale / Robustness Investments  

     

    “Agentless” Agent with support for SFTP - Remote Execution

    • You can now copy files between remote FTP servers where      the Agent is not installed.
    • Telnet for FTP or SSH for SFTP
    • For security purposes, you must select an option to     activate remote commands in the FTP Agent definition.

    Scale

    • Multi-threaded file transfers
    • We have tested up to a Terabyte of transfer through a      proxy.

    Dynamic connections

    • Select the connection objects by variables
    • Override attributes like hostname, user id, or password

    Connection Robustness

    • Connection health monitoring during file transfers
    • Automatic reconnect of stalled connections
    • Resume file transfer after halt (large file or high      volume)


  • 6.  Automic Automation v9 & Axway's Secure Transport Integration

    Posted Nov 18, 2013 05:19 PM

    Found the training and posted it here:

    http://community.automic.com/discussion/547/ftp-v3-0-training?new=1



  • 7.  Automic Automation v9 & Axway's Secure Transport Integration

    Posted Nov 21, 2013 03:12 PM
    We use Axway for Managed File Transfer with External Vendors at Costco.  

    For Outbound interfaces, we encrypt the file using PGP, and then send the file to the Axway Application's Vendor Account using ssh key authentication with the UC4 RA SFTP job (v3.01).  

    It seems that Axway is optimized for SFTP. Since the external accounts are defined and stored in the Application, connecting via SFTP is the least painful way of transferring the files.

    For the Inbound interfaces, the Axway application drops the file on one of our NFS mount points, and we pick it up from there, decrypt it and transfer it to the correct internal interface with a regular UC4 JOBF.




  • 8.  Automic Automation v9 & Axway's Secure Transport Integration

    Posted Dec 03, 2013 05:40 PM
    Pretty cool stuff. Axway is the first company that I have seen expose a WADL file. WADL is like WSDL and describes the actions you can take on their service through the RESTful interface.

    If you have the API configured, it should be here:

    They also have their API reference online here:

    Looks like they have a RESTful Web services API where you could automate Axway if you have to use it to do the transfer.

    The Web services v3.0 agent would be the best way to automate the REST API. It makes your life easy when it comes to parsing the return content and makes it easier to manage jobs.

    Here is a curl example to push a file:

    curl -k --user user_name:password -X POST -i -H "Content-type: application/json" \

    -H "Accept: application/json" -d "

    {

    \"file\" : \"file_name\",

    \"site\" : \"site_name\",

    \"asynchronousCall\" : false,

    \"RECIPIENT\" : \"recipient_email_address\",

    \"NAME\" : \"recipient_name\"

    }"https://ST_Server_host_name_or_IP_address/api/v1.0/transfers/push