How To - Setup Folder Replication

This guide will cover how to setup folder replication at the office and onboard the vessels. The TM Master rules can direct the files to specific folders on that server, but the customer will need to use a third-party tool to move the files between the office/vessel servers.

1. First create a send rule at the office system that will direct the files for a specific vessel into a folder of your choice in which you want to use to send/receive the files.

You will need to reference the unit code in the file mask just as you would when sending files via replication. Make sure to end this with *.o?u which will send o2u and ofu files to the vessels. (documents and updates)

The “folder” option will need to be ticked instead of email and the folder in which you want the files to be placed in needs to be referenced below. (the COMM folder)

2. Next create a receive rule for the same vessel.

First make sure in the path field you reference the path that you are wanting the files sent to the office to be pulled from. (the COMM folder)

Next make sure that the unit code is referenced in the files mask as was the case for the send rule. This time the file mask u?o will be used to pull both u2o and ufo files. (documents and updates)

3. Once the above two steps have been complete at the office, I also suggest running through the same steps at the vessel server. 

When creating the send and receive rules at the vessel server make sure that the files masks have been changed accordingly. The file mask at the vessel for the send rule will end *.u?o and the receive rule at the vessel to pull the files in will end o?u. You will also still have to reference the vessels unit code at the start of the file mask just as you did at the office.

4. Next you need to use a third-party tool to move the files from the folder they are being placed in at the office by the send rule out to the needed vessel servers. This can be done by referencing each vessels unit code as these are unique. 

The folder the files will need to be placed in onboard the vessels will be the folder that is referenced in the vessels receive rule. (The COMM folder)

Any files in this folder will be imported by the system on the next service loop. (often set to 10 minutes)

5. The exact same steps that have been carried out in step 4 will also need to be carried out in order to send the files created at the vessel and placed in the folder referenced in the send rule out to the office. The files will need to be placed in the folder that is referenced in the office receive rule for this vessel.

6. You will still need to setup the exchange client with a valid email to initialize folder transfer. However, no replication files will be sent via email.

7. Once all of the above steps have been followed each service loop the service will look in the COMM folder and will import all files that have a receive rule setup for them. The third party tool would have transferred these files from the sending server directly into the COMM folder where they will wait to be imported.