Oracle MFTCS Configurations

• MFT Configurations can be done using mftconsole
• Login to mftconsole using admin credentials.
• After login, select Administration tab on the right corner.
• Following configurations are available

Server Properties. 

1. Payload Storage Directory
• domain_dir/mft/storage
2. Callout Directory
• domain_dir/mft/callout
3. Store inline Payload - File or DB type
4. We can select the number of processors for Source , Transfer and Target
5. Configure Control Directory
• domain_dir/mft/contrl_dir
• Inbound datasource jndi
• outbound datasource jndi

Import and Export

• You can this section to import and export MFT artifacts. 

Keystore Management

1. Keystore
• MFT uses SSL and SSH keys to secure embedded SFTP server. 
• Use this section to configure SSL and SSH keys . 
• Steps to configure SSL certificates. 
• Go to WLST command line path
• /mft/common/bin
• Start WLST
• connect("weblogic","welcome1","t3://localhost:7003")
• Access Oracle Platform Security Services (OPSS) key store service
• svc = getOpssService(name='KeyStoreService')
• Create a SSL keystore
• svc.createKeyStore(appStripe='<StripeName>’, name='<StoreName>’, password='<StorePassword>’, permission=false/true)
• Example : svc.createKeyStore(appStripe='mft', name='mftDefaultStore', password='Welcome1', permission=false/true)
• Generate SSL key pairs:
• svc.generateKeyPair(appStripe='mft', name='mftDefaultStore', password='Welcome1', dn='cn=www.thesnventerprise.com', keysize='1024′,alias='mftssl', keypassword='Welcome2′)
• Exit WLST .
• Go to Admin console. 
• Select Keystore
•  Add Stripe and Name values as mentioned in the above commands. 
• Enter the keystore  password and  Private Key Password  in the respective fields and confirm the password by entering it again. 
• Save changes. 

• We need to generate a password protected SSH keystore before we configure it in console. 
• For placing files to embedded SFTP server from a remote server , we need to create an ssh keystore and configure it in mft console. 

• Use following steps.
• Go to WLST path
• /mft/common/bin
• Start WLST command. 
• connect("weblogic","welcome1","t3://manged_server_host:PORT")
• We can generate the key using WLST command or through ssh-keygen
• generateKeys('SSH', 'Welcome1','/custom/path/ssh-pvt-keys.ppk')
• ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 2048 -f /custom/path/ssh-pvt-keys.ppk -N Welcome1
• Import the key
• importCSFKey('SSH', 'PRIVATE', 'mftssh', '/custom/path/ssh-pvt-keys.ppk')
• Output - CSF key imported successfully.
• This will generate an alias name called mftssh
• Exit WLST
• Go to Keystore
• provide the SSH keystore password provided used in generateKeys command. 

• Use following steps to configure remote server to access  Embedded SFTP server. 
• Ask the remote server admin to generate a SSH key pair. 
• Get the public key from the remote user. 
•  Add the public key in MFT server authorization key. 
• cat ~/.ssh/remote_pub_key.pub >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys
• Import Public keys to MFT using WLST command. 
• importCSFKey('SSH', 'PUBLIC', 'MFT_RM_USER', '/home/oracle/.ssh/authorized_keys')
• Note : Get the user name which remote server will use to login and use that user name in import command.

Embedded Servers :

• Use this option to configure Embedded FTP and SFTP servers.
• Go to SFTP tab and add the following configurations
• Enable sFTP by ticking Enabled flag
• Set the authentication Type as PUBLIC
• Host Key Alias -- Use the alias name which you have used to generate the SSH keys in the above mentioned steps.  mftssh      
• Configure the Ports and User access. 
• Select the MFT_RM_USER  User from the list .
• After doing the changes RESTART the embedded server. 

PGP Key Configurations :

• Go to WLST path
• Run the WLST command
• Connect to managed_server:port
• Run the following command to generate the PGP key pair. 
• generateKeys('PGP', 'PGPWelcome1','/custom_path/PGP/Keys');
• importCSFKey('PGP', 'PUBLIC', 'Public_PGP', '/custom_path/PGP/Keys/pub.asc');
• importCSFKey('PGP', 'PRIVATE', 'Private_PGP', '/custom_path/PGP/Keys/secret.asc');
• Use the password which you have provided in generate key command and update the PGP keystore password in admin console. 
• You can use the PGP private key for PGP encryption. 

Note : Content encrypted using the public key can only be decrypted by the associated private key, which is a secret known only to the possessing party

MFT - Import SSL Certificates for Secured Connection. 

• Get the certificate from target server
• Use the following command to get the certificate
• openssl s_client -connect hostname.com:21 -starttls ftp
• Copy the certificate including -----BEGIN CERTIFICATE----- and -----END CERTIFICATE-----
• Put the content in a .cer file. 
• vi target_server_ssl_certficate.cer and ESC+i , paste it and save it
• Go to MFT wlst command folder 
• Sample -  cd /u01/app/oracle/middleware/mft/common/bin
• Run WLST command - ./wlst.sh
• Connect to weblgic server. 
• connect('weblogic','$password', 't3s://AdminServer:7002')
• Access OPSS Security Service 
• svc=getOpssService(name='KeyStoreService')
• Import the certificate using following command
• svc.importKeyStoreCertificate(appStripe='mft',name='mftDefaultStore', password='$keyStorePassword',alias='$ALIAS_NAME',keypassword='$PasswordForNewCertificate',type='TrustedCertificate',filepath='$FilePath/File_Name.cer')
• exit()

MFT - Import PRIVATE Keys:

• cd /u01/app/oracle/middleware/mft/common/bin
• ./wlst.sh 
• connect("weblogic","password","t3://managed_server:port")   - $PORT -9073
• importCSFKey('SSH', 'PRIVATE', 'CLIENT_PRIVATE_KEY', '/u01/app/oracle/tools/home/oracle/CLIENT_AWS_SFTP_privatekey.ppk')
• CSF key imported successfully
• exit()

Reference : https://docs.oracle.com/middleware/12213/opss/IDMCR/keystore_service_wlst.htm#IDMCR566

Error Scenario:
Traceback (innermost last):
File "<console>", line 1, in ?
NameError: svc

Solution: Make sure you have run the command to set the value for svc