Configuring AS2 Partners
EFT's AS2 module allows you to setup AS2 partner profiles as user accounts. The profile includes all necessary information for AS2 connectivity, including a hot folder that can trigger an event when a file is added using the AS2 profile and send the data that was added. This partner-provisioning orientation associates AS2 transactions directly to a user profile, rather than to an event trigger for which you would have to specify the user as a Condition of an Event Rule.
For these user (partner) accounts, the AS2 Outbound and AS2 Inbound tabs provide the ability to specify an AS2 inbound and outbound policy (parameters) for the selected partner (user). Your trading partners must provide you with the public key of their certificate and their AS2 Identifier.
You can create the accounts manually on the user account tabs or use the AS2 Partner Access wizard to define trading partners with detailed instructions. If you want to configure an AS2 trading partner manually, you first create or determine the Settings Template under which to define the account, create the user account (refer to Configuring Users and Settings Templates), then configure the AS2-specific parameters of the account.
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