Transport
Digest
A transport stores (and moves) data concerning how published content is pushed out from a temporary directory to the final publish location. They can push content out via FTP/STP, or via a file system like a VPN, a mapped network drive, a shared drive, or a mounted drive. To utilize a transport, it must be attached to a destination.
Concept
Types of Transports
There are two types of transports:
File System – File system transports can push out content to a location on the CMS server’s hard drive or to a mapped network location. In order to set the transport to a mapped network connection, the account used by the CMS server must have the appropriate privileges to write to and create new files in the network publish location.
FTP/STP – FTP/STP transports push content to a remote server via the SFTP or FTP protocol. The account specified in the transport's settings must have appropriate privileges on the remote server to navigate through the folder structure, write, and create to ensure that publish operations do not encounter errors.
Technical
Creating a Transport
To create a transport:
- Click on ‘Administration’ in the top navigation menu.
- Select ‘Transports’ in the left navigation pane.
- Click ‘Filesystem’ or ‘FTP and SFTP’, depending on where content is to be published.
- Click ‘New Transport’.
- In the ‘Create’ pane, select the appropriate Transport Type and click ‘Submit’.
- Complete the following fields in the ‘General’ pane:
a) Transport Name – Used by the system to identify the transport.
b) Server Name – Will only appear for FTP/STP transports; enter the name of production server.
c) Server Port – Will only appear for FTP/SFTP transports; enter the port number.
d) Server Directory – Address where content should be published.
e) User Name/Password – Will only appear for FTP/SFTP transports; enter information needed to access the directory.
- Click ‘Submit’ to save the new transport.
Transport Diagnostic Utility
This utility serves to allow managers and administrators the ability to test destination connectivity and destination transfer rates without the need to invoke a publish.
Under Transports, in the Administration area, once a Transport has been selected, a new option will appear on the left hand side: “Test Transport.”
To run the Transport Diagnostic Utility:
- Select the transport you wish to test.
- Click Test Transport
- On the resulting screen, click Submit to execute the connectivity test.
If there are no errors, the screen will indicate "Test Successful!"
If errors are found, the screen will identify the problem that occurred, and automatically forward users to the properties view for that transport.