Overview

MOVEit Automation is an enterprise-level, Windows-based, automated managed file transfer (MFT) workflow engine that pulls, processes and pushes files on a scheduled, event-driven or on-demand basis between internal and external systems, including MOVEit Transfer servers.

MOVEit Automation does this using easily-created tasks (no programming required) that can exchange files between multiple systems using multiple protocols, and process files with many built-in functions (including OpenPGP encryption) and custom VBScript scripts.

MOVEit Automation is provided in multiple editions to match the needs of a wide variety of customers. The license determines the features that you can access.

• You can review the features that are included with each license and determine which license meets your business needs here: Edition Information.
• To review the functions and features available in your current license, run the Config Utillity. For more information, see GetMICConfig Utility.

Note: Some functionality is only available to certain product editions.

Supported Servers and Protocols

MOVEit Automation editions securely and automatically transfer files to and from:

• Local Filesystem
• UNC Share
• MOVEit Transfer
• FTP/FTPS servers
• SSH/SFTP servers
• POP3 (Incoming email)
• SMTP (Outgoing email)
• Amazon S3 servers
• AS1, AS2 or AS3 servers.

Supported File Processing

File and folder synchronization/replication is available between any two selected folders on these servers.

PGP encryption/decryption, zip operations, rename, find and replace, command-line applications and anti-virus integration are also built in and require no additional software. (Native PGP must be enabled in your MOVEit Automation license code. PGP availability is dependant on your MOVEit Automation edition.)

Automated server-to-server file transfers require no knowledge of any script language because MOVEit Automation provides an operator-friendly user interface to schedule tasks and monitor their progress.

In cases where custom scripts are necessary, certain MOVEit Automation editions fully support VBScript, with many custom functions to make integration with MOVEit Automation tasks seamless. External applications and schedulers may also be used to start tasks, pass task parameters, monitor running tasks, and retrieve transfer and audit logs through MOVEit Automation API, available in component and command-line versions for Windows and Java.

Security

Based on a robust scheduling facility, MOVEit Automation avoids becoming a security target by protecting sensitive access information with powerful encryption, local files with NIST 800-88-compliant data erasure and configuration channels with SSL.

Remote access to MOVEit Automation is restricted to specific Windows users in local or domain groups. With certain MOVEit Automation editions, group access to transfer tasks and related elements can be fine-tuned to delegate management in a number of commonly requested configurations. The basic MOVEit Automation edition does not allow the configuration of permissions.

All transactions are logged to a tamper-evident ODBC database usable by the MOVEit Automation built-in reporting feature and by custom billing and tracking systems.

Local or remote configuration, control and monitoring of the MOVEit Automation service is performed through the Web Admin application. Unlimited copies of this management client can be run at any specified time, and different permissions to different task groups can be allocated to different users.

Notice: The Web Admin application is available. It requires a separate installation process. For more information, see MOVEit Installation Guide.

Cryptographic services, including complete encryption of all configuration files, are provided by MOVEit Crypto. Also available as a separately licensed commercial product for Windows or Linux developers, MOVEit Crypto has been validated under FIPS-140-2 by the United States and Canadian governments.