Key Features

MOVEit Automation simplifies the creation of standardized workflows and makes it easier to ensure reliability, security and compliance. The key features associated with MOVEit Automation are outlined below.

Licensing

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.

Exchange Files with:

• Windows servers
  • Local Filesystem
    • Event-Driven, "Transfer Immediately Upon Complete Receipt"
  • Windows-based network shares , including "Mapped Drive Letters"
    • Event-Driven, "Transfer Immediately Upon Complete Receipt"
  • Novell and other NAS resources
  • All
    • Automatic Retry of Failed Transfers.
    • "Partial File" Protection, Avoids Pulling Files in Use, Rename After Upload.
  • Supports Synchronization/Replication.
• MOVEit Transfer servers (HTTPS interface)

  Note: Prior to the MOVEit Automation 2017 release, the name of the MOVEit Transfer product was changed from MOVEit DMZ to MOVEit Transfer. In MOVEit Automation 2017, both MOVEit Transfer servers and supported versions of MOVEit DMZ servers can be added as MOVEit Transfer hosts. In this help system, the term MOVEit Transfer host refers to a host based on a MOVEit DMZ server or a MOVEit Transfer server, unless otherwise indicated. For more information on supported versions, see the Release Notes.

  • Event-Driven,"Transfer Immediately Upon Complete Receipt"
  • Complete Guaranteed Delivery
    • Cryptographic-Quality Integrity Check, SHA1.
    • Automatic Restart of Partial Transfers.
    • Automatic Retry of Failed Transfers.
  • "Partial File" Protection, Avoids Pulling Files in Use, Rename After Upload.
  • Session Reuse, for Performance.
  • Supports Synchronization/Replication.
• FTP servers
  • Insecure FTP.
  • FTP over SSL, Explicit and Implicit Connect Modes, plus "CCC" support.
  • Client Certificates.
  • Active and Passive Data Transfer Modes.
  • Supports Custom "Quote" Commands, Upon Connection and Per-File.
  • Supports Unusual Directory Listings, for example IBM.
  • Supports Synchronization/Replication.
  • Automatic Retry of Failed Transfers.
  • "Partial File" Protection, Avoids Pulling Files in Use, Rename After Upload.
  • Client NAT.
  • Download Integrity Verification, MD5.
• SSH Servers
  • Password and Public Key Authentication.
  • Supports Unusual Directory Listings.
  • Supports Synchronization/Replication.
  • Automatic Retry of Failed Transfers.
  • "Partial File" Protection, Avoids Pulling Files in Use, Rename After Upload.
  • Download Integrity Verification, MD5.
• Email servers
  • Outbound Protocol: SMTP.
  • Inbound Protocol: POP3.
  • Password Authentication.
  • SMIME Encrypt/Decrypt/Sign Scripts included.
  • Automatic Retry of Failed Transfers.
• Amazon S3
  • HTTP or HTTPS protocol.
  • HTTP authentication.
• Azure Blob
  • HTTP or HTTPS protocol.
  • Secure communication with SSL.
• SharePoint
  • HTTP or HTTPS protocol.
  • Secure communication with SSL.
• AS1, AS2 and AS3 Partners
  • Drummond "eBusiness" certified software.
  • AS1: POP3/S and SMTP/S with email MDN support.
  • AS2: HTTP/S with asynchronous, synchronous and email asynchronous MDN support.
  • AS3: FTP/S with MDN support.

Schedule Tasks to run:

• When a target file is complete (MOVEit Transfer and FileSystem only).
• On specific days of the week, for example Monday and Wednesday.
• On specific dates in the month, for example the 15th and 20th.
• At a specific time, for example at 17:00pm, once or repeatedly.
• Several times, within a specified time range, for example from 13.00 to 15.00.
• Until certain files are transmitted successfully
• In response to other successful or failed transfers
• When certain files are found on disk, for example rigger files.
• When commanded to do so by an external application through the MOVEit Automation API interface

Configure Tasks to:

• Zip/unzip files
• Retrieve new files, for example files that are newer than 1 days or since the last time MOVEit Automation looked.
• Retrieve old files, for example files that are older than 7 days.
• Retrieve small or large files
• Transfer available files in batches, up to X files or just more than Y bytes per task run.
• Never overwrite existing files.
• Append to existing files.
• Create outbound folders if they do not already exist.
• Run simultaneously with many other tasks, even to different hosts.
• Ignore specified files or folders.
• Delete, rename, or move source files after a successful transfer.
• Run command-line applications against files.
• Use macros to rename outbound files or select source files, for example [mm][yyyy].
• Use macros to look for inbound files
• Kick off other tasks or send email notifications in response to responses and failures
• React to or parse, or both, trigger files.
• PGP Encrypt/Decrypt Files, using native PGP and license.
• SMIME Encrypt/Decrypt Files, using Included SMIME Control.
• Handle large files, for example, over 10GB.
• Synchronize/replicate files and folders between two selected folders.
• Record the path, size and date of source and destination files, the speed of the transfer, and any errors encountered or processes run in a tamper-evident transfer database.
• Execute custom VBScript against any file.
• Use Advanced Tasks to apply conditional processing and consolidate "chained" tasks.

Configure Integrated Antivirus to:

• Work with Symantec AntiVirus, McAfee VirusScan, and Trend Micro OfficeScan.
• Either ignore infected source files or actively delete them.

Configure Logs and Events to:

• Write to a text file.
• Write to the Windows Application Event Log or a Windows "MOVEit" Event Log. Either of these sources may be sent to SysLog or SNMP servers.
• Send email notifications if tasks succeed, fail or do no run.

Monitor Tasks through:

• Running "system log" with extensive debugging information, for example FTP "200" messages.
• Display of active and inactive tasks.
• "Reports" dialog with historical task run and audit events.
• Drill-down views of specific task runs and file transfers.
• Your own custom log display using MOVEit Automation API (or ODBC) access to real-time log database.

Ensure Security with:

• Encrypted file transport using FTP over SSL, FTP over SSH and HTTPS.
• Encrypted Admin/Central communications (requires installation of valid SSL certificate on MOVEit Automation platform).
• Encrypted configuration files (256-bit AES).
• Encryption of individual files with PGP or SMIME.
• AS2 and the other ASx protocols (AS1 and AS3).
• Auditing of administrator actions, task runs, and file transfers.
• Tamper detection of audit and activity logs, via cryptographic hashing.
• Overwrites of temporary cache files with cryptographic-quality random data (NIST 800-88-compliant data erasure).
• NIST-validated cryptography.

Run as:

• A service on Windows 2012 R2, 2016, and 2019.
• A desktop application with the scheduler disabled and/or a special test configuration file in test and development situations.

Delegate to Operators the Ability to:

• Monitor, run, make minor or major changes to, add and delete certain tasks.
• Monitor/reference or make changes to, add and delete certain hosts, SSL certs, SSH certs, PGP keys, and scripts.
• Start/restart/stop certain tasks.