Call my agent! What might be a long shot in Hollywood is a sure thing when it comes to managed file transfers (MFT). MFT agents are lightweight applications that do a lot of heavy lifting to automate your file transfers and workflows – remote and on-premises – throughout your enterprise, saving you time and money.
If your organization needs to manipulate and transfer files securely across multiple locations, you can get the job done efficiently with an agent and eliminate the need for separate FTP, FTPS, SFTP servers, or other traditional transfer methods.
How Do I Get an Agent?
The easiest way to access the automation power of agents is to get them through an MFT solution that offers local and remote agents, such as Fortra’s GoAnywhere MFT. Through the user-friendly, browser-based interface and central deployment of GoAnywhere you can schedule and configure agent file transfers as well as automate additional business processes.
Organizations can install GoAnywhere agents on almost any server or workstation handling file transfers or workflows, including Windows, Linux, UNIX, IBM i. Agents can also be used in organizations with a cloud infrastructure.
Admins can both configure the work to be performed on local and remote agents as well as view all events that occurred. And security with agents is ensured, as transactions conducted are encrypted with SSL/TLS and require multi-step authentication.
What Can a File Transfer Agent Do for My Organization?
All connected agents can be controlled from the central server in GoAnywhere for efficiency and transparency. Files can be processed either on the agent itself or agents can send them on to GoAnywhere for additional processing.
Organizations have flexibility with agents and can deploy them remotely on a server, in the cloud, or even to a trading partner’s location. Additional flexibility allows for customization of the agent installers to fit your unique environment.
Hardworking agents can help organizations lighten the IT load for many typical business processes, including:
- Automating and securing file transfers
- Facilitating workflow capabilities such as compression, decompression, data parsing, database integration, encryption and decryption, and more
- Scheduling file transfers to run at future dates/times
- Monitoring folders on agent systems for new or modified files
- Sending alerts if an agent file transfer failed
- Feeding audit data to centralized deployment of GoAnywhere reporting for visibility into all file transfers within your organization
- Deploying automatic notifications if an agent goes offline
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