Learn how Serv-U can replace bulky attachments, insecure FTP servers and unreliable (or leaky) web sites, and then prepare you for tomorrow’s network and mobility changes.
Learn more about the major features of Serv-U:
• Virtual folders access local storage, remote shares or both.
• Granular control over bandwidth, storage, permissions, and access.
• Automatic account maintenance (reset password, disable after X days, etc.).
• File integrity checks (MD5, SHA1, SHA256, etc.).
• Support for many languages
Notes: - Audience: NA (probably OK to use NA pricing – check with legal on this) - Presenters: Craig McDonald (PM) and Jonathan Lampe (PMM) (PMM lobs softballs at PM and PM demos the product.) -
When businesses talk about supporting partners and employees outside the firewall, they are always at least two services in the conversation.One is email, which of course, is how most people communicate throughout the day.The second is the web site, which provides a permanent presence for marketing materials, and may also provide live applications such as a customer portal, quote generator, or web services. But there’s often a third type of dedicated service used by established businesses, and that’s a dedicated file transfer server. This server generally serves three roles in most organizations. First, it offloads large file handling from email attachments and web site uploads, freeing up those services, and making both email and the web more reliable for users and administrators alike. Second, a dedicated file transfer server allows partners and internal groups to quickly automate the submission and retrieval of data. For example, a CSV uploaded via FTP could yield a PDF ten minutes later, or an entire folder full of supporting details could be zipped and sent another company through the file transfer server. Finally, a dedicated file transfer server allows employees and contractors to access their own files back in the office – without having to be in the office, or even needing a VPN.
(Run through the bullets, reminding people that we’ll “we’ll take a look at this in a moment”)
Do a demo of:Web ClientSign OnBrowse up/down foldersUpload a fileDownload a fileShow a thumbnail viewPreview some images onlineWeb Client ProEnableSelect multiple files and downloadSelect multiple files and upload(don’t bother with drag-and-drop)FTP Voyager JVEnableShow “side-by-side” viewShow drag-and-drop from pane to pane (both directions)FTP client (FTP Voyager)Sign onBrowse up/down foldersShow “side-by-side” viewShow drag-and-drop from pane to pane (both directions)Note that the webinar won’t cover a demo of mobile devices, but that here are some screenshots, we support most major devices (including iPad, iPhone, Android, Kindle Fire, BlackBerry, Nexus) and that anyone who downloads Serv-U can try their own devices out on their own.
Between web, mobile and traditional FTP interfaces Serv-U supports 5 different protocols. The reason for supporting this many protocols is that it allows native clients already present on most computers and mobile devices to connect and transfer files with Serv-U – without installing any additional software. Let’s start with our web and mobile transfers. Those use two firewall-friendly protocols: HTTP and HTTPS. Both of those are supported out-of-the-box on nearly every every desktop, server, laptop, netbook, smart phone and tablet. Now let’s look at automated and FTP client transfers. Those use FTP or one of the two most common secure file transfer protocols: SFTP and FTPS. Built-in, and often scriptable, clients for these protocols come with almost servers, mainframes, minicomputers, desktops, laptop and notebooks. And there are dozens of inexpensive or free FTP clients – such as FTP Voyager – that allow you to connect to Serv-U if the built-in clients are not enough.And finally, let’s take a look at our choices if we restrict ourselves only to secure protocols. For Web and mobile transfers, we can use HTTPS, we have secure FTP over SSL, and another secure single-port option in SFTP using SSH.
On the client side we just saw how easy it is to connect to Serv-U from existing software and devices. And configuring Serv-U is also quite easy too. Serv-U ships with a self-contained repository of user information, but you can just as easily hook it up to a database or your Active Directory. This allows your end users to sign on to Serv-U using the same credentials they use to sign on to their desktops in the morning. Serv-U also works with existing NAS devices and other shared storage. This allows you to manage the files and storage you expose to the Internet, or to share the same files and folders your users access in the office. From a monitoring perspective, Serv-U writes its logs in a format that SolarWinds Log and Event Manager can understand, and it can also write to the Windows Event Log to integrate with other S-I-E-M software.
If there are no other questions, let’s take a quick tour of the Serv-U administrative interface.
Those are some of the basics of the Serv-U administrative interface. While we’re not going to go too far into the weeds on advanced configuration, we will also tell you that Serv-U supports both high-availability and high-security architectures. If you need additional capability or you are worried about a single point of failure, deploying multiple nodes of Serv-U in a web farm backed by Active Directory, a database or shared storage will help you safely distribute a load between multiple servers.If you need additional security, particularly to keep “data at rest” out of your DMZ, you can deploy our optional Serv-U Gateway in the DMZ. There, it will terminate incoming connections from external clients and stream data through to the real Serv-U server behind the firewall, all without having to open any inbound connections of its own.