Key Features
- Last Updated: November 30, 2023
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- MOVEit Automation
- Version 2023.1
- Version 2023
- Documentation
Exchange Files with:
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FTP servers
- Insecure FTP
- FTP over SSL (Explicit and Implicit Connect Modes, plus "CCC" support)
- Client Certificates
- Active and Passive Data Transfer Modes
- Supports Custom "Quote" Commands (Upon Connection and Per-File)
- Supports Unusual Directory Listings (e.g., IBM)
- Supports Synchronization/Replication
- Automatic Retry of Failed Transfers
- "Partial File" Protection (Avoids Pulling Files in Use, Rename After Upload)
- Client NAT
- Download Integrity Verification (MD5)
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SSH Servers
- Password and Public Key Authentication
- Supports Unusual Directory Listings
- Supports Synchronization/Replication
- Automatic Retry of Failed Transfers
- "Partial File" Protection (Avoids Pulling Files in Use, Rename After Upload)
- Download Integrity Verification (MD5)
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MOVEit Transfer servers (HTTPS interface)
- Event-Driven ("Transfer Immediately Upon Complete Receipt")
- Complete Guaranteed Delivery
- Cryptographic-Quality Integrity Check (SHA1)
- Automatic Restart of Partial Transfers
- Automatic Retry of Failed Transfers
- "Partial File" Protection (Avoids Pulling Files in Use, Rename After Upload)
- Session Reuse (For Performance)
- Supports Synchronization/Replication
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Windows servers
- Local Filesystem
- Event-Driven ("Transfer Immediately Upon Complete Receipt")
- Windows-based network shares (Including "Mapped Drive Letters")
- Event-Driven ("Transfer Immediately Upon Complete Receipt")
- Novell and other NAS resources
- (All)
- Automatic Retry of Failed Transfers
- "Partial File" Protection (Avoids Pulling Files in Use, Rename After Upload)
- Supports Synchronization/Replication
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Email servers
- Outbound Protocol: SMTP
- Inbound Protocol: POP3
- Password Authentication
- SMIME Encrypt/Decrypt/Sign Scripts Included
- Automatic Retry of Failed Transfers
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AS1, AS2 and AS3 Partners (Enterprise only)
- Drummond "eBusiness" certified software
- AS1: POP3/S and SMTP/S with email MDN support
- AS2: HTTP/S with asynchronous, synchronous and email asynchronous MDN support
- AS3: FTP/S with MDN support
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HTTP (web) servers
- HTTP or HTTPS protocol
- HTTP authentication
- Upload via PUT or POST
- Download via GET
- Special support for Microsoft SharePoint Server
Schedule Tasks to run:
- AS SOON AS TARGET FILE IS COMPLETE ( MOVEit Transfer and FileSystem only)
- Once at a specific time (e.g., "at 5pm")
- Several times in a specified time range (e.g., "from 1pm to 3pm")
- Only on specific days of the month or weekdays (e.g., "Mondays, 3rd")
- Until certain files are transmitted successfully
- In response to other successful or failed transfers
- When certain files are found on disk (e.g., "trigger files")
- When commanded to do so by an external application through the MOVEit Automation API interface (Enterprise only)
Configure Tasks to:
- Zip/unzip files
- Only retrieve new files (e.g., "newer than 1 days" or simply "since the last time MOVEit Automation looked")
- Only retrieve old files (e.g., "older than 7 days")
- Only retrieve small or large files
- Transfer available files in batches (up to X files or just more than Y bytes per task run)
- Never overwrite existing files
- Append to existing files
- Create outbound folders if they do not already exist
- Run simultaneously with many other tasks, even to different hosts
- Ignore specified files or folders
- Delete, rename or move source files after a successful transfer
- Run command-line applications against files
- Use macros (e.g. "[mm][yyyy]") to rename outbound files or select source files
- Use macros to look for inbound files
- Kick off other tasks or send email notifications in response to responses and failures
- React to and/or parse "trigger files"
- PGP Encrypt/Decrypt Files (Using native PGP and license)
- SMIME Encrypt/Decrypt Files (Using Included SMIME Control)
- Handle massive (>10GB) files
- Synchronize/replicate files and folders between two selected folders
- Record the path, size and date of source and destination files, the speed of the transfer, and any errors encountered or processes run in a tamper-evident transfer database
- Execute custom VBScript against any file (Enterprise only)
- Use Advanced Tasks to apply conditional processing and consolidate "chained" tasks (Enterprise only)
Configure Integrated Antivirus to:
- Work with Symantec AntiVirus, McAfee VirusScan, and Trend Micro OfficeScan
- Either ignore infected source files or actively delete them.
Configure Logs and Events to:
- Write to a text file
- Write to the Windows Application Event Log or a Windows "MOVEit" Event Log (either of these sources may be sent to SysLog or SNMP servers)
- Send email notifications if tasks succeed, fail or do nothing
Monitor Tasks through:
- Running "debug log" with extensive debugging information (e.g. FTP "200" messages)
- Display of active and inactive tasks
- "Reports" dialog with historical task run and audit events
- Drill-down views of specific task runs and file transfers
- Your own custom log display using MOVEit Automation API (or ODBC) access to real-time log database (Enterprise only)
Ensure Security with:
- Encrypted file transport using FTP over SSL, FTP over SSH and HTTPS
- Encrypted Admin/Central communications (requires installation of valid SSL certificate on MOVEit Automation platform)
- Encrypted configuration files (256-bit AES)
- Encryption of individual files with PGP or SMIME
- AS2 and the other ASx protocols (AS1 and AS3) (Enterprise only)
- Auditing of administrator actions, task runs, and file transfers
- Tamper detection of audit and activity logs, via cryptographic hashing
- Overwrites of temporary cache files with cryptographic-quality random data (NIST 800-88-compliant data erasure)
- NIST-validated cryptography
Run as:
- A service on Windows 2012 R2, 2016, and 2019.
- A desktop application with the scheduler disabled and/or a special test configuration file in test and development situations.
Delegate to Operators the Ability to: (Enterprise only)
- Monitor, run, make minor or major changes to, add and delete certain tasks
- Monitor/reference or make changes to, add and delete certain hosts, SSL certs, SSH certs, PGP keys, and scripts
- Start/restart/stop certain tasks
Licensing:
Enterprise version:
- Unlimited number of remote hosts (i.e., sources, destinations)
- Unlimited number of scheduled tasks plus
- Unlimited number of advanced tasks, which allow conditional processing
- Unlimited number of SSH keys, SSL certificates and PGP keys
- Unlimited number of administrators
- Ability to create custom processes (scripts)
- Support for alternate hosts to provide rollover to another host during processing of a task
- Delegation of permissions via access control lists (hosts/tasks, groups/users)
- OPTIONAL: Automatic Failover
- OPTIONAL: Native OpenPGP Support
- OPTIONAL: AS1, AS2 and AS3 Support
- OPTIONAL: API Interface module
Corporate version:
- Up to 10 remote hosts (i.e., sources, destinations); excludes "local" hosts
- Up to 50 scheduled tasks
- Unlimited number of SSH keys, SSL certificates
- Up to 10 PGP keys
- Unlimited number of administrators
- OPTIONAL: Native OpenPGP support