The File Transfer page controls the transferring of files as a
secure alternative to File Transfer Protocol (FTP).
Introduction
You
can transfer individual files and directories between the following systems:
- The browser system and the management server
- The browser system and a managed system
- The management server and a managed system
Transfer files by highlighting and dragging them from the source
system to the target system.
Fields
- Source File System
- A list of files on the source system. Select files to be transferred to
the target system.
- Target File System
- A list of files on the target file system.
- Actions
- Source file system
- Lists the actions that can be performed on the source file system.
- Refresh All
- Refresh all files from the source file system.
- Refresh Selected
- Refresh those files that are highlighted.
- Open
- Open the selected files.
- Create Directory
- Create a directory on the source file system. If a directory is highlighted
when this action is selected, the new directory becomes a subdirectory of
the highlighted one.
- Delete
- Delete selected file. A pop-up window requires that you confirm the deletion.
- Rename
- Change the name of selected files.
- Properties
- Display details about selected files.
- Transfer Files to Target
- Transfer the selected files from the source file system to the target
file system.
- Synchronize Files from Source
- When the same file or directory occurs in both the source and target file
systems, replace the file or directory in the target with the one in the source.
This action is applied to those files that have been highlighted.
- Target file system
- Lists the actions that can be performed on the target file system.
- Refresh All
- Refresh all files from the target file system.
- Refresh Selected
- Refresh those files that are highlighted.
- Open
- Open the selected files.
- Create Directory
- Create a directory on the target file system. If a directory is highlighted
when this action selected, the new directory becomes a subdirectory of the
highlighted one.
- Delete
- Delete selected files. A pop-up window is displayed asking to confirm
the deletion.
- Rename
- Change the name of selected files.
- Properties
- Display details about selected files.
- Transfer Files to Source
- Transfer the selected files from the target file system to the source
file system.
- Synchronize Files from Target
- When the same file or directory occurs in both the source and target file
systems, replace the file or directory in the source with the one in the target.
This action is applied to those files that have been highlighted.
- Options
- Compression
- Specifies the level of file compression used when transferring files.
- Off
- No file compression is used.
- Default
- The default level of file compression is used.
- High
- A high level of compression is used.
- Fast
- A file compression algorithm that is fast, but might not achieve the same
results as High, is used.
- Show
- Determines how the files and directories are presented on this panel,
and whether details about each file are displayed.
- List
- A list of the file and directory names is displayed.
- Details
- Details about each file and directory are displayed.
- Vertical
- The list of files and directories for each system (source and target)
are displayed vertically.
- Horizontal
- The list of files and directories for each system (source and target)
are displayed horizontally.