How do we configure the firewall settings for a FTP site from an
Orchestration?

I am trying to send a file to a FTP site thru a firewall.

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You might want to work with your network administrator to figure out
firewall settings.  As long as the service account  for Biztalk service has
the read/write permissions to the specific folder, it will be able to
drop/receive files from a specific location.


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we are having a firewall. We have a user name and password for the
firewall.

Also, We have the FTP username and password. The ftp username and password
can be specified as a message property FTP.Username and FTP.Password.

But, analogous to this, I expected something for the Firewall settings.
Are you are of this? Or else do we have any other alternative?

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Hi,

I think you should configure the firewall to allow FTP connecions from the B
izTalk
server to the FTP server. You should not need to use the firewall username a
nd
password from within BizTalk.

Regards,

Alan

"rejoyin" wrote:

> we are having a firewall. We have a user name and password for the
> firewall.
>
> Also, We have the FTP username and password. The ftp username and password
> can be specified as a message property FTP.Username and FTP.Password.
>
> But, analogous to this, I expected something for the Firewall settings.
> Are you are of this? Or else do we have any other alternative?
>
>

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Thanks Alan! It sounds good.
But I have some more doubts on this.

your reply means ... i have to set the firewall to allow the particular
ftp connection for the user id on which the biztalk application runs.
(correct me if i am wrong)

this is an additional overhead for me. if i have any changes, I have to
change these firewall configurations again.

Instead, It sounds more nice if we have a seperate userid/ password for
the firewall itself. In this case the application request for FTP first
authenticates itself aganist the firewall with the 'firewall
username/password' and moves ahead to do the FTP.

This is only an intutive idea of mine. I want to check If this is possible
at all from biztalk??

If possible, the firewall settings will have to be done from the
orchestration. But I dont know how to do this.

Rejoy.

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Hi Rejoyin,

I set up an FTP connecion today, ans there are parametres available for sett
nig
the firewall, such as username and password. To do this, you need to add a
send or receive port to the server using the BizTalk explorer in Visual Stud
io.
You can then set the transport type to FTP, and set the connecion paramiters
in the Address property.

There is some info on the properties here:

ms-help://BTS_2004/TechReference/htm/ebiz_csh_adapterfx_vsyc.htm

Cheers,

Alan



"rejoyin" wrote:

> Thanks Alan! It sounds good.
> But I have some more doubts on this.
>
> your reply means ... i have to set the firewall to allow the particular
> ftp connection for the user id on which the biztalk application runs.
> (correct me if i am wrong)
>
> this is an additional overhead for me. if i have any changes, I have to
> change these firewall configurations again.
>
> Instead, It sounds more nice if we have a seperate userid/ password for
> the firewall itself. In this case the application request for FTP first
> authenticates itself aganist the firewall with the 'firewall
> username/password' and moves ahead to do the FTP.
>
> This is only an intutive idea of mine. I want to check If this is possible
> at all from biztalk??
>
> If possible, the firewall settings will have to be done from the
> orchestration. But I dont know how to do this.
>
> Rejoy.
>
>
>

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Yes Alan! We are on the right track.

Well, I have gone thru this.
this way you can set the required params from the explorer.
but how do we do this from an orchestration.

I will probably fetch the username/password from a DB and set this as
parameters inside an orch.

but still in search of that.

Rejoy.

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Yes Alan! We are on the right track.

Well, I have gone thru this.
this way you can set the required params from the explorer.
but how do we do this from an orchestration.

I will probably fetch the username/password from a DB and set this as
parameters inside an orch.

but still in search of that.

Rejoy.

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Yes Alan! We are on the right track.

Well, I have gone thru this.
this way you can set the required params from the explorer.
but how do we do this from an orchestration.

I will probably fetch the username/password from a DB and set this as
parameters inside an orch.

but still in search of that.

Rejoy.

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I am still looking for some help on firewall settings configuration "FROM
THE Orchestration".

Do anyone have any idea on this??

Rejoy.

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