Configuring Secure Remote Administration

To configure secure remote administration, first configure EFT Server to allow remote administration. Create or acquire an SSL certificate, and then consider whether you need implicit or explicit SSL (Secure Sockets Layer, a protocol designed and implemented by Netscape Communications, provides for encryption of a session, authentication of a server, and optionally a client, and message authentication.). Once engaged, SSL encrypts all of your remote administration sessions.

To enable SSL during remote administration

  1. In EFT Administrator, connect to EFT Server and click the Server tab.

  2. In the left pane, click the Server you want to configure.

  3. In the right pane, click the Remote Administration tab.

  4. Select the Require SSL for remote administration check box.

  5. Click the open icon to choose the location of the Certificate file path and the Private key file path.

  1. Type the Private key passphrase.

  2. Click Apply to save the changes on EFT Server.

If you do not already have a certificate and you are administering a local EFT Server, you can create a certificate using the Certificate Creation Wizard located on the main menu under Tools.

You cannot use the Certificate Creation Wizard to create a certificate for a remote EFT Server. If you need to create a certificate for a remote computer, you must open EFT Administrator and use the Certificate Creation Wizard locally on that computer.

If you want to use the COM API to administer the Server securely over a remote SSL connection, ensure that the SSL.dll file is deployed along with the SFTPCOMInterface.dll file on the remote computer.