Tutorial - Creating and Manually Starting an SFTP Server

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. 

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.

Select the stonebranch-sftp-01 server from the Server list panel and click the Certificates tab.

Click the Add Certificate button

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:

The certificate record appears in the list:

To see more details about a specific server key, click the View (eye icon) button.

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.

Adjust the SFTP Protocol configuration, if needed, by:

• Restricting the allowed Key Exchange algorithms
• Restricting the allowed Encryption (cipher) algorithms.
• Restricting the allowed MAC algorithms.
• Allowing file deletion.
• Allowing file rename.
• Enabling and configuring the host-based authentication method.

Click Save to register the changes.

Start the server by clicking on the start (play icon) button:

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.

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

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.