Gateway Connection Details

Gateway Connection Details

Everything a partner needs is on one panel in Connectors > File Exchange, directly under the tab bar. It shows on both the Partners and the Endpoints tab, so you can reach it from whichever one you happen to be on. Hand a partner these values, not a description of them.

The panel as it appears, with example values. Always read the real values from your own screen — they are read from the running server, and a published fingerprint that does not match the live endpoint is worse than none.

What to send a partner

First connection — SFTP

sftp -P 22 <username>@<host>

On the first connection the client prints the host key fingerprint and asks whether to trust it. Compare it against the panel before typing yes.

Then:

sftp> cd /inbound/edi
sftp> put purchase_order.edi
sftp> ls
sftp> bye

To check the fingerprint without logging in at all:

ssh-keyscan -p 22 <host> | ssh-keygen -lf -

For a scripted client, pin the key in known_hosts rather than disabling host checking:

ssh-keyscan -p 22 <host> >> ~/.ssh/known_hosts
sftp -o StrictHostKeyChecking=yes -P 22 <username>@<host>

First connection — FTPS

Explicit TLS on port 21. With curl:

curl --ftp-ssl-reqd --ftp-pasv \
     -u '<username>:<password>' \
     -T purchase_order.edi \
     ftp://<host>:21/inbound/edi/

With lftp:

lftp -u '<username>,<password>' -e '
  set ftp:ssl-force true;
  set ftp:ssl-protect-data true;
  set ftp:passive-mode true;
  cd /inbound/edi; put purchase_order.edi; bye
' <host>

What a working connection looks like

The FTPS greeting is 220 DataMagik File Gateway ready. AUTH TLS required. and the SFTP banner identifies the gateway. After a successful upload, the file appears within seconds on the Transfers tab — see the transfers console.

What is deliberately not supported

• Plain FTP — never. FTPS with explicit TLS only.
• Shell access, exec, port forwarding — the SSH server offers the sftp subsystem and nothing else.
• Renaming files (RNFR/RNTO) — refused rather than half-implemented, because it would break the link between a transfer receipt and its stored object.

Troubleshooting