Overview

The MOVEit Central Admin program is used to configure MOVEit Central's file transport/manipulation tasks and to monitor MOVEit Central activity. MOVEit Central Admin must have an authenticated connection to at least one MOVEit Central service, though it can manage multiple installations of MOVEit Central. It can reside on the same server as MOVEit Central or on a remote system.

Note: The new Web-based Admin program is now available. It requires a separate installation process, described in the MOVEit Central Installation Guide.

The main screen of MOVEit Central Admin is comprised of the following tabs:

• Hosts - Configures address and credentials used to access servers from various tasks.
• Tasks - Configures specific file transfer and manipulation tasks.
• Scripts - Configures file processing scripts.
• Status - Shows the current and last status of tasks.
• Debug Log - Monitors the debug log.
• Failover - Displays current failover status. Available only if MOVEit Central Failover has been licensed.

Titlebar

The top bar of the main MOVEit Central Admin dialog contains 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. If this value is anything else, either (SSL secured) or (not secured) will also appear 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.