Preconditions

Technical requirements

In order to use i-effect *AS2, some requirements must be met or, if necessary, some configuration steps must be taken. The following list provides an overview of the most important infrastructure requirements in your company:

• Internet access with a fixed or dynamic IP address that can be reached from outside.
• Access to a DNS server to resolve host names and IP addresses (this may also have to be done manually in the host table)
• At least two free ports (1024<Port<=65535) for AS2 communication from AS2 client and AS2 server. The default AS2 port for HTTP is 4080.
• If necessary, activation of the port for the AS2 server with partner IP address on the firewall

If necessary, convert (NAT) the public IP address/port to the IP address of the Power Systems.

Required communication profiles

To use i-effect AS2, it is necessary to create some master data and communication profiles. The following must be carried out:

For receiving AS2 messages:

• Create one or more AS2 servers (HTTP/HTTPS).

For sending AS2 messages:

For each AS2 communication partner,:

• an AS2 send profile can be created
• of the partner in the EDI master data
• of the created partners can be linked to the created AS2 send profile.
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One-Time

Create an AS2 sender partner that contains your sender-specific AS2 data. You can then specify this sender as a parameter when calling SNDAS2. From this, i-effect AS2 uses the sender parameters required for sending.

Required master data

To set up AS2 communication with your partner, the following information is required.