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Promoting a Resource

Admin Users can copy Resources to other

Managed File Transfer

installations. This feature is especially useful for promoting Resources from a development installation to a production installation of

Managed File Transfer

. Follow the steps below to promote Resources:

A Resource can be promoted from the

Promote Resources

page. To access this page:

Click the

Resources

link from the main menu.

A list of Resource types will be displayed (database servers, FTP servers, HTTP servers, etc.).

Click the Resource type to work with.

A list of Resources will be displayed.

Click the

Action icon beside the Resource and then click the

Promote icon.

The

Promote Resources

page will be displayed.

Enter values for the following fields:

Target Server: The host name (or IP address) of the
Managed File Transfer
installation to copy the Resource(s) to. The value specified must be a URL of the form
http://[host]:[port]/informaticamft
, where [host] is the host name or IP address of the target
Managed File Transfer
installation, and [port] is the port number on which
Managed File Transfer
server is running, which by default is 8000. An example value would be http://10.1.4.1:8000/informaticamft
User Name: The Admin User name to login to the target
Managed File Transfer
installation.
Password: The password for the user to log in with. The password is case sensitive.
Replace Target Resource(s)?: Indicate if the Resource should be replaced on the target
Managed File Transfer
installation if it already exists with the same name.