Product purpose

OS4X Portal is a portal solution for transferring files between an internal and external server for a secure data exchange with external communication partners, who typically don't have an own solution for managed data transfers.

Definition

OS4X Portal server: a server in the DMZ
OS4X Portal daemon: software handling portal jobs, running in the internal network zone

Components

OS4X Portal consists of several components being used:

Internal

Special portal license
Portal definition
User management and synchronization
OS4X Portal daemon
Portal send plugin
Portal receive plugin
shared storage

External

Special portal license
OS4X client daemon
Portal configuration
shared storage

Required communication ports

For a functional OS4X Portal communication, the following communication protocols needs to be enabled between internal to external zone:

shared storage (like NFS, CIFS or others)
http(s) communication via a defined port (TCP ports 80 or 443 by default)

OS4X Portal

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