Tutorial - Creating a Transfer Rule for an SFTP Server

Click New. The Rule Details displays.

• In the Rule Name field, enter stonebranch-sftp-01_receive.
• In the Direction field, select Receive.
• In the Description field, enter any value, for example "Receive rule for sftp-01".
• In the Virtual Path Directory field, enter sftp-01-in, this is the virtual path that is shown to the SFTP clients.
• In the Local Directory field, enter ./data/sftp-01/in.
• In the Remote Directory field, leave it empty.
• In the Temp Directory field, enter ./data/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. 

The rule is created and appears on the Rules list:

The virtual path is now presented to the SFTP client.

Connect to the SFTP server with the user that was created on the previous tutorial:

$ sftp -P 4000 stonebranch-01@0.0.0.0
stonebranch-01@0.0.0.0's password:
Connected to 0.0.0.0.
sftp> ls -hl
drwxrwxrwx    0 65534    65534          0B Jun 20 15:09 sftp-01-in

From the UDMG navigation pane, select Management > Servers. The Server list displays.

Select the stonebranch-sftp-01 server and click on the Rules tab. The green dot on the tab shows that a rule is now assigned to this server.

To restrict the use of this rule and this virtual path to only the server stonebranch-sftp-01, you have to assign the rule to that server.

Select the stonebranch-sftp-01 server and click on the Rules tab.

• Click Edit on the Reception Rules header to display an Edit Rules pop-up that allows you to assign the Reception Rules to the Local Server.

To assign (or "authorize") a Rule to a Local Server, move the Rule from the Rules window to the Authorized Rules window:

1. To move a single entry, click it once and then click the > arrow.
2. To move multiple entries, Ctrl-click them and then click the > arrow.
3. To move all entries, click the >| arrow.

To unassign (or "revoke") the Rule to a Local Server, move the Rule from the Authorized Rules window to the Rules window:

1. To move a single entry, click it once and then click the < arrow.
2. To move multiple entries, Ctrl-click them and then click the < arrow.
3. To move all entries, click the |< arrow.

• Assign the rule stonebranch-sftp-01_receive.

The rule is now whitelisted for this server and marked with a card icon:

The rule does not appear anymore for the other servers:

The rule and this virtual path is only accessible for this local server and for all of its accounts.

It is possible to further restrict a rule to only a specific account of a server by assigning it on the account Rules screen. 

The available virtual paths for a given account are a combination of:

1. the rules that are authorized for this account,
2. the rules that are authorized for the local server,
3. the global rules, that are not assigned to any account, server, or partner.

Upload a file on the SFTP server on the virtual path location:

$ date > date.txt
$ sftp -P 4000 stonebranch-01@0.0.0.0
stonebranch-01@0.0.0.0's password:
Connected to 0.0.0.0.
sftp> put date.txt  sftp-01-in/date.txt
Uploading date.txt to /sftp-01-in/date.txt             date.txt              100%   29    54.3KB/s   00:00

From the UDMG navigation pane, select Activity> History. The History list displays: