Monday, September 7, 2015

Transport Data Securely and Reliably over the Internet with AdroitLogic AS2Gateway

Posted by sudheera On 10:31 PM

Are you looking for a solution to send and receive your business data through the internet, securely and reliably? Applicability Statement 2 (AS2) defines a protocol which ensures such functionality. Using digital certificates and encryption ensures the security aspect of this protocol.

AdroitLogic AS2 Gateway is a cloud based messaging platform that designed to operate on AS2 protocol.  Being a cloud based solution,  AS2Gateway gives you the ability to quickly set up the trading stations and get in to messaging as soon as possible. Here's a quick introduction and setup guide to AS2Gateway written by Manjula.

I'm going to talk about several key features and tools provided by the AS2Gateway in the rest of this blog post. 

Certificate Store

Certificate store is a very useful tool provided by the AS2Gateway, it allows you to import, generate and manage your certificates without using any other tools externally.

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I'd like to point out some of the useful features in Certificate Store. Refer to the numbers I put on the image.

1. Certificate type : A certificate could be a private key of a station defined in AS2Gateway, a certificate of your trading partner or a  Https certificate of your trading partner.

2. Belongs To : This column specifies the trading station or the trading partner which the certificate is currently assigned to.

3. You can export any of your certificates using this button to PEM or DER formats and download them.

4. Assigning the certificates to partners can be done easily using this button.

5. This gives you the ability to import any certificate in to the certificate store.

6. If you want to generate your own certificate and add it to the store. it can be achieved here with a single click.

Message View

Message view gives you to access various properties of the sent/ received message including the http level headers. To get the message view click on the message subject in inbox or outbox. Refer to the following image. 


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1. Download the content to your local file system, if the content is consist of several attachments you can download each attachment one by one or as a zip file.

2. Download the raw message as the AS2Gateway receives it.

3. Download the transport level headers. like AS2-From, AS2-To, Content-Type etc

4. Download the MDN(Message Disposition Notification) associated with the message.

Audit Trails

Audit trails gives you the ability to keep track of events that took place in your as2gateway organization profile. You can filter out each audit trail by Trading partner, Trading station, Messages etc. You can even define your own custom tags and filter using those tags.

 
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I'll talk about more features of AS2Gateway in the next blog post. Thank you.