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Introduction

Overview

MOVEit Central Corporate and Enterprise editions securely and automatically transfer files to and from FTP servers, FTP over SSL (FTPS) servers, FTP over SSH (SFTP) servers, the local filesystem, network folders, email servers, MOVEit DMZ servers. File and folder synchronization/replication is available between any two selected folders on these servers. MOVEit Central Enterprise can also send files or receive files in an AS1, AS2 or AS3 trading partnership.

PGP encryption/decryption, zip operations, command-line applications and antivirus integration are also built in and require no additional software. (Native PGP must be enabled in your MOVEit Central license code.)

Based on a robust scheduling facility, MOVEit Central also takes care not to become a security target itself 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 Central is restricted to specific Windows users in local or domain groups. With MOVEit Central Enterprise, group access to transfer tasks and related elements can be fine tuned to delegate management in a number of commonly requested configurations. For example, group permissions can grant full administrative access, grant "just run and/or report" access to specific tasks, grant a limited ability to transfer anything between two designated servers or create a private "slice" of MOVEit Central that other groups cannot access.

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

In cases where custom scripts are necessary, MOVEit Central Enterprise fully supports VBScript, with many custom functions to make integration with MOVEit Central 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 Central API, available in component and command-line versions for Windows and Java.

All transactions are logged to a tamper-evident ODBC database usable not only by MOVEit Central's built-in reporting, but also by custom billing and tracking systems. Local or remote configuration, control and monitoring of the MOVEit Central service is performed through the MOVEit Central Admin application. Unlimited copies of this management client may be run at any given time, and different permissions to different task groups may be allocated to different users.

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 is only the tenth product to have been validated under FIPS-140-2 by the United States and Canadian governments.