Managing Gateway Servers

The Files Advanced Gateway Server is the server contacted by the Files Advanced mobile app that handles accessing and manipulating files and folders in file servers, SharePoint respositories, and/or Sync & Share volumes. The Gateway Server is the "gateway" for mobile clients to their files.

The Files Advanced Server can manage and configure one or more Gateway Servers from the same management console. The Gateway Servers under management appear in the Gateway Servers section of the Mobile Access menu.

• Type - Shows the type of the gateway, at the moment it can only be of the Server type.
• Name - Cosmetic name given to the gateway when you create it.
• Address - DNS name or IP address of the gateway.
• Version - Shows the version of the Files Advanced Gateway Server.
• Status - Shows whether the server is Online or Offline.
• Active Sessions - Number of currently active sessions to this Gateway Server.
• Licenses Used - Number of licenses used and the number of available licenses.
• License - Shows the current type(s) of license(s) used by the Gateway Server.

You can register new Gateway Servers using the Add new Gateway Server button. From the actions menu for each Gateway Server the administrator can get more details on a server and its performance, edit its configuration, change the access restrictions for the server, change licensing for the server, or remove the Gateway Server.

Requirements

Files Advanced uses Windows Search to allow searching in Network data sources. Windows Search is built-in feature of Windows Server but it is not enabled by default.

You need to enable it by doing the following:

• Add/Install the Role called File Services in the Server Manager.
• The Windows Search Service must be enabled and started.

Note: If the requirements are not met, you will not be able to search in Network data sources.

Index local data sources for filename search

By default, indexed searching is enabled on all Gateway Servers. You can disable or enable indexed searching for each Gateway Server in the Gateway’s Edit Server dialog.

Default path

By default on a standalone server, Files Advanced stores index files in the Search Indexes directory in the Files Advanced Gateway Server application folder. If you would like to locate the index files in a different location, enter the path to a new folder.

Support content search using Microsoft Windows Search where available

Support for content search of shared folders is enabled by default, and can be enabled or disabled by enabling this option. You can enable or disable content searching for each Gateway Server individually.

Windows Search can be configured to index the necessary Data Sources by right-clicking the Windows Search icon in the Start bar and selecting Windows Search Options. You can do Windows content searches on Windows reshares but the remote machine(s) must be in the same domain as the Gateway Server.

Note: The Data Source's volume path must be a hostname or a fully qualified name in order to use content search on Windows Reshares. IP addresses are not supported by Windows Search.

Additional Configurations

Content search indexing can be configured to only index the contents of certain file types.

1. On your server hosting the Gateway Server, open Control Panel -> Indexing Options.
2. Select Advanced and open the File Types tab.
3. Find the file types you wish to enable/disable content search for (e.g. doc, txt and etc.).

Select the desired file type and under How should this file be indexed select either Index Properties and File Contents to enable content search for this file type or Index Properties to disable it. Repeat this step for all desired file types.

SharePoint

Entering these credentials is optional for general SharePoint support, but required to enumerate site collections. For example, say you have two site collections: http://sharepoint.example.com and http://sharepoint.example.com/SeparateCollection. Without entering credentials, if you create a volume pointing to http://sharepoint.example.com, you will not see a folder called SeparateCollection when enumerating the volume. The account needs to have Full Read access to the web application.