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The MOVEit Central Admin console is used to configure MOVEit Central's file transport/manipulation tasks and monitor MOVEit Central activity. MOVEit Central Admin is useless without an authenticated connection to a MOVEit Central, but a single installed copy of MOVEit Central Admin can manage many copies of MOVEit Central.
MOVEit Central Admin is a Windows application. See the Requirements for information about supported platforms.
The main screen of MOVEit Central Admin is broken into five or six tabs. Three are used to configure MOVEit Central and two are used to monitor MOVEit Central. One tab ("Failover") only appears if MOVEit Central Failover has been licensed.
Titlebar
The top bar of the main MOVEit Central Admin dialog contains one or two interesting pieces of information about the current connection. All connections will show the hostname or IP address of the MOVEit Central to which MOVEit Central Admin is currently connected. If this value is "localhost", it means that the "connection" is local and SSL is not necessary. However, if this value is anything else either "(SSL secured)" or "(not secured)" will also be seen in the titlebar.
Firewall Considerations
MOVEit Central Admin only requires that it can connect to MOVEit Central on three TCP ports (3471, 3472, and 3473). All MOVEit Central Admin-to-MOVEit Central communication occurs over these ports, including "browse" actions to various hosts. (MOVEit Central is the machine actually doing the browsing in each case.) Because MOVEit Central Admin and MOVEit Central are often on the same "side" of a firewall, there is rarely a need to configure these ports into a firewall.
When MOVEit Central Admin traffic has been SSL encrypted (by installing an SSL certificate on MOVEit Central), these three channels will all be encrypted and will continue to use the same ports.