Server Setup Wizard

When you installed EFT Server, when the Administrator opened, you were instructed to define or point to an EFT Server to administer. Anytime you connect to the GlobalSCAPE EFT Server service, if no Servers have been defined, the Server Setup wizard Welcome page appears. The Server Setup wizard guides you through EFT Server and initial Site (In EFT Administrator, a Site is similar to a virtual FTP server bound to one or more IP addresses.) configuration. The wizard helps you configure Server-specific options such as allowing remote administration. After the brief Server Setup wizard is completed, you have the option to run the Site Setup wizard to configure a Site.

You may cancel out of the Server Setup wizard anytime by clicking the X in the upper right corner; however, any settings made through the wizard are discarded, except for keys/certificates added to the key manager (by creating or importing).

You will need the following information to create and configure a Server:

If you are allowing remote administration of EFT Server and you are using 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.), you need to know the SSL settings and have access to the SSL keys and certificates.

If you are restricting remote administration to specific IP addresses, you need to know the IP addresses and ports.

If you are using DMZ Gateway Server, install and configure DMZ Gateway before creating Servers and Sites. (The installation and configuration of DMZ Gateway is not required before creating Servers and Sites, but the setup of your Servers and Sites will go more smoothly if all of the applications are installed first.)

To create/configure an EFT Server

Start the Server Setup wizard. If no servers are defined, the Server Setup wizard Welcome page appears automatically after you log in to EFT Administrator; otherwise, on the main menu click File > Add New EFT Server and log in using the Server login credentials you created when you installed the Server.

Read the introduction on the Welcome page, then click Next. The Remote Administration page appears.

If you do not want to allow remote administration, clear the check box, then skip to step 5.
If you want to allow remote administration, select the check box and specify the administration port and Home IP address (or All Incoming).

Click Next. If you chose remote administration, the Require Secure Admin Login page appears.

To enable secure remote administration, select the Use SSL for secure remote administration check box, then click Next. The SSL Certificate Options page appears.
In the Certificate and Private Key boxes, click the open icon to browse for the private key pair files, or click Create certificate to create one. See SSL Certificate-Based Login, Creating Certificates, Importing a Certificate into the Trusted Certificate Database, and Importing Certificates from Microsoft IIS 5 for information regarding certificates.

If you do not enable SSL, you will not be able to connect to EFT Server from a remote EFT Administrator.

Click Next. The Limit Remote Administrator IP Addresses page appears.

Specify whether to Deny access to all remote IP addresses except for those you specify, or Grant access to all remote IP addresses except for those you specify, then add the IP addresses exceptions to the list.

Click Next. The Auditing and Reporting page appears.

If you are using Auditing and Reporting, select the Enable Auditing and Reporting check box, then provide the information required to connect to the ARM database as described below. Otherwise, skip to the next step.

In the Host[\Instance Name] box, type the Server name or IP address.

If you are using SQL Server as the Auditing Database, \InstanceName corresponds to SQL Server's notion of named instances, a feature that allows a given computer to run multiple instances of the SQL Server Database Service. For more information, please see http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms165614.aspx.

In the Username and Password boxes, type the username and password used to connect to the database (not the EFT Server credentials).
In the Database Name box, type the name of the database.
In the Audit failure notification e-mail address box, type the e-mail address to which EFT Server is to send database connection error notifications. You can add as many e-mail addresses as needed; separate the addresses with a comma or semicolon. EFT Server uses its global SMTP e-mail settings from the SMTP Configuration to send the e-mails. You will configure those settings on the next page.
In the In case of database error area, specify an action for EFT Server to take if there is an error with the database. To stop recording data, select Stop auditing. To continue recording data to a file, select Audit to folder, and specify the location for the log file.

UNC paths are supported. The GlobalSCAPE EFT Server service must run on a computer that has access to the network share, and the full UNC path must be used, that is: \\xcvd.forest.intranet.xc\Common_Files, not G:\Common.

Click Next. The specify SMTP Settings page appears.

In the From e-mail address box, specify the e-mail address for e-mail notifications (such as those triggered by Event Rules).
In the SMTP host address boxes, specify the SMTP server host address and port.
If the SMTP server requires authorization, select the check box and provide the Username and Password.

Click Next. Server Setup is complete; you are offered the option of continuing to the Site Setup wizard, or quitting the wizard, saving EFT Server settings, and configuring the Site(s) later. You must configure at least one Site to service inbound connections to EFT Server.

Click an option, then click Finish. If you chose Run the Site Setup wizard now, the Site Setup wizard Welcome page appears.

You can run the Server Setup wizard again at any time or modify EFT Server configuration in EFT Administrator.