MFT Nodes

The MFT Node Runtime (an MFT agent) allows Cloud to LAN or LAN to Cloud file transfers.

The MFT Node can transfer files within your enterprise firewall, allowing LAN to LAN transfer, yet orchestrated and managed by the MFT cloud.

Use the online administration portal to re-configure, pause/resume, restart, or update the MFT Nodes.

Configurations are retrieved by the Node via outbound polling using an HTTPS connection.

1. From the Organizations page, click the organization for which you want to create an MFT Node, then click the MFT Nodes tab.

2. Click Add MFT Node.

3. In the MFT Node Name field, enter a name for the node.

4. Optional: Enter a description.

5. Under Alert Configuration, select one of the following options:

   • Disabled - Alert emails are disabled. Alerts will continue to be generated on the Alerts page.
   • Instance Admins - (Default) Alert emails will be delivered to all instance administrators.
   • Email List - Enter email addresses for alerts.

6. Anti Virus actively invokes a Microsoft Defender AMSI scan on each transferred file and then reports the outcome to the Control Plane. Files are withheld from the target directory until the scan returns a clean result. Disabled by default.

   note

   Anti Virus is available to Windows MFT Runtimes only.

   When Anti Virus is enabled, you can configure Retry & error handling:

   • Enable back-off between retries - When on, the interval doubles after each attempt up to the maximum. When off, every retry waits the same interval.

     • Retry cycles - The number of times a file is retried
     • Interval between retries - The length of time, in seconds, between retry attempts
     • Maximum back-off interval - The maximum time, in seconds, before the system gives up retrying a scan

   • When retry cycles are exhausted - Leave files in place or Delete the file. The default behavior is to leave the file for error handling.

   Per-file successes and failures are recorded in File Activity. A file that is still failing once its retry attempts are exhausted is recorded as an error and raises an alert. If alert emails are disabled, it still appears on the Alerts page.

   

7. Click Save.

From the Actions menu, you can Edit MFT Node, View Associated Endpoints, or Delete MFT Node.

caution

To successfully complete node setup, you must configure at least one File Share endpoint. You can add additional File Share endpoints and associate those endpoints with any MFT Nodes you have created under MFT Nodes.

MFT node download

From the MFT Node page, you have the option to download the node for installation on either Windows or Linux operating systems.

Clicking Download MFT Node opens a window with commands to download the node.

You can execute this single installation and configuration line on Windows using PowerShell or on Linux through a terminal. This will guide you through the steps necessary to download and configure the node.

Refer to MFT Node Runtime for hardware requirements and installation steps.