Tutorial - Creating and Manually Starting an SFTP Server

In this tutorial, you will:

Create an SFTP server.
Manually launch the server.
View server details.

Step 1	From the UDMG navigation pane, select Management > Servers. The Servers list displays.
Step 2	Click New. The Server Details displays. In the Server Name field, enter stonebranch-sftp-01 In the Protocol field, select SFTP In the IP Address field, enter 0.0.0.0 In the Port field, enter 4000 In the Root Directory field, enter data In the Receive Directory field, enter sftp-01/in In the Send Directory field, enter sftp-01/out In the Temp Directory field, enter sftp-01/tmp In the Member of Business Service, select one of the available Business Services. More business Services can be added after the rule is created.
Step 3	Click Save and Confirm.
Step 4	Generate a host key (private SSH key) for the server, for example: $ ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 -C "stonebranch-cert-01" -m PEM -f "stonebranch-cert-01.crt" -N "" Generating public/private rsa key pair. Your identification has been saved in stonebranch-cert-01.crt. Your public key has been saved in stonebranch-cert-01.crt.pub.
Step 5	Select the stonebranch-sftp-01 server from the Server list panel and click the Certificates tab.
Step 6	Click the Add Certificate button
Step 7	The Certificate Details displays. In the Name field, enter stonebranch-cert-01. In the Private Key field, select enter the content of the file stonebranch-cert-01.crt:
Step 8	Click Save and Confirm.
Step 9	The certificate record appears in the list:
Step 10	To see more details about a specific server key, click the View button (the eye icon). The Key Details displays, showing the following: algorithm bits: size of the key, only for RSA key type the MD5 fingerprint the SHA256 fingerprint a clean authorized keyline, without any comment or host specification If the record was just created or updated, click the Refresh button to reload the details.
Step 11	Start the server by clicking on the start (play) button:
Step 12	Click on the MFT Server Status button to show the list of running services. The new server stonebranch-sftp-01 is listed and should appear with a green status which means there is now a SFTP server listening on the IP and port that we configured.
Step 13	The server status can be controlled with the following action buttons: Enable: local server is set to start automatically when UDMG Server starts Disable: local server is not starting automatically when UDMG Server starts Start: initiate the start of the local server Stop: request to stop the local server Restart: request to stop and start the server
Step 14	Additional details can be attached to a local server. Description Primary Contact Name Primary Contact Phone Primary Contact Email Secondary Contact Name Secondary Contact Phone Secondary Contact Email Customized fields Go to the Details tab on the local server pane. Fill in the needed details. New fields can be added with the 'plus' button at the bottom of the form. A custom field is comprised of a key and value pair. Press the Save button inside the tab to store the details.