The admission profile (or FT profile) defines the FTAC transfer admission and the associated access rights. The FTAC transfer admission (simply referred as transfer admission) is the actual key to your computer. You should therefore treat the transfer admission with the same care as you look after a password. It must be specified in transfer requests instead of a login authorization. The standard admission profile for a user ID is an exception. See "Admission profile (FT profile)". Anyone who possesses this transfer admission does have file transfer access to your computer, but, unlike the login authorization, is not free do what he or she wants. Which functions you permit are specified with the access rights for this transfer admission. In this way, you can control (for example):
the conditions under which files are accessed (file name prefix)
the follow-up processing commands which are permitted after file transfer
the partner systems which can access the admission profile.
In the most extreme case, you can restrict access to your computer in such a way that only one single profile is available providing access to only one file.
FTAC checks whether the entries in the request conflict with the entries in the FT profile for each file transfer request. If so, the file transfer request is rejected. In this case, only a general error message appears in the remote system.
This prevents the definition of the FT profile being determined step-by-step on a trial and error basis. A log record which describes the cause of the error precisely is created in the local system.
Admission checking workflow
The following diagram shows the sequences for admission checking with FTAC.
Standard admission profile
You can set up a standard admission profile for each user ID. Unlike a normal profile, a standard admission profile has no FTAC transfer admission.
This profile is only intended for certain use scenarios, such as when an FTAM partner has to specify the transfer admission in a fixed structure (user ID and password) for inbound access and you nevertheless wish to specify certain settings, such as a filename prefix.