Windows Installation

Use Case: Install UFA agent in Windows environments.

Linux Installation Steps:

  1. Create a User with Provider type as AMF (Agile Messaging Framework).

  2. Create UFA config and assign to the user created in step 1.

  3. Download the agent software and copy to the respective system.

  4. Install the agent and verify the status in Service availability screen.

Windows Installation Process:

1. Create a User with Provider type as AMF.

  • Login to AMF

  • Go to Users page under Onboarding

  • Click on + icon in the top right corner

  • Select Customer and give details of PartnerA, select UserType, AuthenticationType and click next.

    1. UserType: Which Zone does the Partnerbelongs to send or receive files? (DMZ or Trusted)

    2. AuthenticationType: Where do we store the Partner credentials? (LDAP or local (SFG/AMF) or Both)

  • Select the provider the Partner belongs to and click next

    1. AMF: AMF provider is used to onboard Partners which use UFA

    2. IBM: This will come from the provider's config. We can choose several types based on the provider's config.

    3. OpenLdap: We need to select this if we selected the AuthenticationType as LDAP in the step d-ii.

  • Verify the Partner details and click Onboard User.

Note: We can also use existing users if we have any

2. Create UFA config and assign to the user created in step B1.

  • Go to UFA page under configuration

  • Click on + icon at the top right corner

  • Give details of the UFA agent

  • Click save after giving the below details

    1. Ufa User: Name of the Partner to which the agent belongs to

    2. Host Name: Host/IP of Partner system where UFA agent will be installed.

    3. Operating system: Operating system type of Partner

    4. OS Type: Weather its 64 or 32(X86) bit system

    5. UFA Version: Option to choose different version (Version 2.0 by default)

    6. Assigned To: Admin user who will operate the agent installation

    7. Log Level: Log level for the UFA agent logging

    8. UFA Type: Where the UFA was installed (In DMZ or Trusted Zone)

3. Download the agent software and copy to the respective system:

  • Go to UFA page under configuration

  • Click on Download Icon for the UFA agent that we configured earlier

  • Copy the software to respective windows system

4. Install the agent and verify the status in Service availability screen.

  • Unzip the software

  • Right click on ufav2_win64 and click Run as Administrator

  • Now the agent is installed

  • Now go to Service availability under Track N Trace

  • Now we can see the UFA agent status as Active

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