We had been discussing the FTP Guard 4i with a prospect and they mentioned that they would like to be able to monitor the FTP Server and SFTP Server from the FTP interface. So we have added a couple of new features to the status screen that allow the user to administer the FTP Server and the SSHD server which is used for the SFTP connections.
Here is the new status screen
One of the things we did notice when we added the new features and checked they functioned was the SFTP connection takes on the QSECOFR profile in the job and drops the original user profile. We need to take a look at this to see exactly what effect this has? We don’t allow the QSECOFR profile to connect via FTP or SFTP so the security we have set for the user as far as FTP is concerned still applied.
Let us know if you are interested in this kind of solution and what if any additional features you would like to see. The Log viewer is coming along and will be the subject of our next post.
Chris…