Oracle AS B2B - Various Features in FTP Adapter (FTPS, SFTP...)

Question

As part of the Oracle AS B2B 10.1.2.0.2 FTP adapter offering following features are supported. FTP Protocol forms part of the Generic Exchange Plugin.
1. Basic FTP
Identification of Trading Partner Criterion is slightly different for Internal and External Delivery channel, even though identification is based on the "Name" in both of this cases.
a. For External Delivery Channel.
i. Identification of Trading Partner is based on the name of the file and the name shoud follow the patterns as nameOfTP_UniqueID.
ii.Identification of Trading Partneris based on the name of the Directory. To enable this it is required to set
oracle.tip.adapter.b2b.allTPInOneDirectory= True as part of tip.properties setting.
b. For Internal Delivery Channel.
The identification of Trading partner and the Document is based on the name of the file and should follow the pattern as
TradingPartner_DocumentType_Revision_msgType_msgId_replytoMsgID_extension.xml
2. FTPS : FTP OVer SSL
Download any of the FTP server which can be configured to FTPS such as FIlezilla. Configure FTP server for FTPS as per the FTP server documentation.
Oracle AS B2B Configurtion:
The SSL configuration is drived by the value of parameter "Channel mask"
1. Depending on the mode of data transfer i.e Active/Passive , specify the data port for Active configuration and no data port for passive mode. Control port is there for both the mode and by default B2B considers this to be 21, there is a need to
mention it for any deviation.
2. Receiver Channel Mask (Host) : Depending on whether No channel encrypted, data channel to be encrypted , Control Channel to be encrypted or Both control and Data channel to be encrypted specity none, Data, Control or Both accordingly.
2. Sender Channel Mask (Trading Partner) : Depending on whether No channel encrypted, data channel to be encrypted , Control Channel to be encrypted or Both control and Data channel to be encrypted specity none, Data, Control or Both accordingly.
Refer to the user guide for FTP Transport configuration.
3. SFTP(New Feature available as part of latest B2B patch # 6353697)
SFTP implementation has been provided for Oracle B2B 10.1.2.0.2 version. This enables B2B to send and receive payload files over SFTP (SSH FTP) protocol.
SFTP protocol support added for both external trading partners and internal applications communications. The naming conventions of the payload files are in-line with File and FTP adapters.
Proxy support provided (HTTP)
Authentication Support :
Password based authentication – username/password combination authentication
Public key authentication – authenticating the identity based on the public key
create a key pair using OpenSSL keygen tool and the Public key need to be installed in the server. and the private keys fully qualified file location has to be specified in Private Key file and the passphrase has to be provide in Prive Key Pass phrase.
If the passphrase is present in the FTP configuration, B2B engine considers the password based Authentication else key based Authentication otherwise it is key based Authentication.

Answer 1

Hello Ramesh
I want to configure FTPS using FTP adapter in Oracle BPEL,I am not configuring any wallet as of now.I am gettig following error while invoking the Put Operation of FTP adapter.
<messages><input><Invoke_1_Put_InputVariable><part xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" name="Zebra_CRM005ProcessRequest"><Zebra_CRM005ProcessRequest xmlns="http://xmlns.oracle.com/Zebra_CRM005">
<input>test</input>
</Zebra_CRM005ProcessRequest>
</part></Invoke_1_Put_InputVariable></input><fault><remoteFault xmlns="http://schemas.oracle.com/bpel/extension"><part name="code"><code>null</code>
</part><part name="summary"><summary>file:/vol2/opt/oracle/product/10.1.3.1/soa/bpel/domains/default/tmp/.bpel_FTP_WRITE_NEW_v2008_09_24__47502_0c1781b2ce7e4236dffaaa7cabd43a0c.tmp/A.wsdl [ Put_ptt::Put(Zebra_CRM005ProcessRequest) ] - WSIF JCA Execute of operation 'Put' failed due to: Error sending file to FTP Server.
Unable to send file to server.
; nested exception is:
     ORABPEL-11429
Error sending file to FTP Server.
Unable to send file to server.
Please ensure 1. Specified remote output Dir has write permission 2. Output filename has not exceeded the max chararters allowed by the OS and 3. Remote File System has enough space.
</summary>
</part><part name="detail"><detail>null</detail>
</part></remoteFault></fault></messages>
Please help in configuring FTPS in oracle FTP adapter.
Thanks
Satendra Pare
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