Centralized Administration Demo

Demo Narration:

Hi, I’m a product manager here at proginet and this is a quick tour of CyberFusion Integration Suite’s Centralized Administration capability.

CFI’s ability to centralize your view of the entire file transfer system gives the administrator complete control from a single access point. By allowing you to see and manage all file transfer activity - server management, user profiles, alerts, status reports, audit logs, and more, Proginet’s CFI will save you time and money by streamlining your administrative processes.

When you first enter CFI’s Command Center you are able to view a snapshot of recent activity. Here we can see the number of transfers for the day, the week, the month and also be able to identify any failures.

In the case of a failure the administrator can search the audit records to only show the failed transactions. There are a number of other parameters that will allow you to quickly find the exact audit records you are searching for.

Once you run the report the administrator can easily sort using the header bar to locate and view the details of any individual transaction to see what caused the failure. Here we notice that the system could not find the path specified - along with an array of other detailed information.

In addition to the audit records that can be displayed on the screen the system also comes with a number of canned reports that allow you to run reports based on transfers, exceptions, users and many other options. You also have the option to create customized reports for exactly what you need to see.

One example is the user authority report. This will show the various users in the system and what rights they have. -- Let’s select the audit rights. -- By clicking on any of the values on the left hand side of the report you will be brought directly to the section of the report that contains that information. You also have the option to print the report, or save the report in a number of formats such as crystal reports, Adobe PDF, or rich text format.

This particular report shows a number of the rights that are available in the Command Center. You have the ability to grant particular rights to individual users so for example they can only view audit records or update users but cannot perform transfers -- allowing for very granular control over who has access to what.

Combining the role based administration with our delegated administration capability provides administrators the maximum flexibility. The delegated administration capability allows the administrator to logically divide the system into virtual subsystems so someone with admin rights to one department does not have to have rights to another department, or by granting someone the right to view and run audit reports limits them to audit records only for their department.

To define a department just type in the department name you need to add and a brief description. Once the department is added you can assign servers, users, groups, or transfer definitions to this particular department. These resources could now be administered by anyone with the appropriate rights in that department or by system wide administrators.

By leveraging the role based access rights and delegated administration the file transfer administrator can push out certain aspects of managing the system without losing control over the system

Using the server status screens allows the administrator to see the status of the various servers within their environment. The system is able to check the status of all of your servers as well as the status of you business partner’s servers if you would like. Here we can see that an AS2 server is down. It happens to be a server running at a business partner’s environment. This allows the administrator to be proactive in correcting any problems before there is a negative impact on production jobs.

Now let’s look at alerts. Alerts allow you to set up business rules and if certain criteria are met, that alert will be triggered.

First you would set the criteria by which you want an alert to be triggered. Here we have set that the alert should be triggered for either sends or receives, for both success and failures that have a process name of “alert”. So any transaction with the process name alert would set off this particular alert. We will indicate that an email should be sent to a specific email address using a specific xml template to format the email. This allows you to customize the email message per alert.

Other options are to send the SNMP trap and define how it would be sent, Execute a command perhaps running a batchjob, or set off a java class which could pass different information to the program such as audit id, name of file, user performing the transfer or other details.

Proginet’s Cyberfusion Integration Suite allows the administrator to have complete control over the entire file transfer system. Allowing a 360 degree view into all file transfer activity across all major platforms whether it’s inside your organization or with your business partners – all from a single location.

That’s the end of our quick tour – We have just looked at a portion of one of CFI’s three core components. Please visit www.proginet.com or contact us for more information.