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SFTP

We will be using an Ubuntu / Debian machine to setup our SFTP server.

Prerequisites​

You will need sudo privileges for setting up SFTP in the following steps.

Steps to setup SFTP server​

  1. First install OpenSSH server on the server machine:

    sudo apt-get install openssh-server

  2. Generate an RSA key pair:

    ssh-keygen

    You will be prompted to choose the location to store your RSA private key, press ENTER to set the default.
    Next you will be prompted to enter a passphrase, leave that to default as well by pressing ENTER.
    Two files will be generated inside ~/.ssh directory named id_rsa and id_rsa.pub where the first one is the private key and latter is the public key.

  3. Now copy the contents of your private key and save them to a file on your local machine.

  4. Upload this private key in the Keys tab of CloudTDMS web portal.

Setting up your SFTP storage on CloudTDMS​

Open the storages tab and insert the following values for your new SFTP storage

  • Name: Name for the storage.
  • Hostname: Domain Name or IPv4 address of your SFTP server.
  • Port: The port on which your SFTP server is running (default is 22).
  • Username: Username of your SFTP server.
  • Password: Password of your SFTP user (Leave empty if using passwordless authentication).
  • Key File: The contents of the private key file for ssh connection.
  • Path: Path of the folder where CloudTDMS will save the generated files or fetch files for profiling.