MoversConnect Setup

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Utilize the MoversConnect Setup to maintain configuration settings stored in MoversSuite and needed to exchange information between MoversSuite and MoversConnect. This information includes the service URL, credentials, and other connection properties.

 

Figure 1: MoversConnect Setup

 

Several processes rely on MoversConnect Setup data. View the MoversConnect topic for a list and for more information.

 

If Mobile Api is enabled, you can access the Mobile Api Setup tab from this setup as well. This setup allows you to provide basic customer/account information utilized by the Mobile Api, such as establishing credentials for your account. This data is necessary to support the MSCrew.

 

IMPORTANT

For Mobile API processing, your IT will need to open a port on your firewall that will forward to the MoversConnect Api Service. The type of traffic is TCP and the incoming IP address is 40.118.235.164. The port specified as the open port on your firewall must match the port specified for the Public Api Service Url set within MoversConnect Setup.

 

 

Technical Field and Function Data

 

The following table describes the fields and functions available within the MoversConnect Setup.

 

Field/Function

Description

Cloud Service Url

Enter the fully qualified URL to MoversConnect (up to 255 characters), e.g., https://www.moversconnect.net.

Public API Service Url

Provide the full path of the URL for the Mobile API service running locally along with the port number that allows data transfer from MoversConnect through your firewall (up to 255 characters), such as http://server:51059/mobileapi.

 

For Mobile API processing, your IT will need to open a port on your firewall that will forward to the MoversConnect Api Service. The type of traffic is TCP and the incoming IP address is 40.118.235.164.

 

This field should be set to identify the server that the API Service is running on and the port that will handle the internet (public) IP traffic from OUTSIDE your company’s firewall to which your router is redirected. Notice that this is a port on the internal API Server since the internal API Server should be is inside the company’s firewall.

 

For example:

      Company’s public IP address is 201.202.203.204.

      First, open one “public” port at the router and that “public” port is 2000.

      Then, open a port – for this example it is port 2500 - on the API Server, whose internal network address is 192.0.1.100.

      Then, create a rule at the router that sends inbound www traffic on port 2000 at the router to the API Server 192.0.1.100 on port 2500. If your router permits, you should limit the inbound traffic on port 2000 to only allow it if it came from IP address 40.118.235.164 (MoversConnect).

 

MoversConnect will look at this customer and send messages to http://201.202.203.204:2000. 

 

Now, in this case, you would set the Public API Service URL field  to http://192.0.1.100:2500 or to http://APIServerName:2500

 

NOTE: Different port numbers at the router and at the API Server are not required; however, for the purposes of the example, they are different for clarity. 

External Account Identifier

Enter the identifier provided to you from MoversSuite (up to 255 characters). This account is your service login to MoversConnect.

Activate MoversConnect Service

Check this flag to enable MoversSuite to MoversConnect communications through the MoversSuite API Service. This function turns on the ability for the MoversSuite API Service to accept MoversConnect messages.

Work Time Start (Use Military Time)

Work Time End (Use Military Time)

Provide the default hours for a work day. This information is utilized by the Mobile Api.

Activate Email Notifications

Enable the emails notifications sent out regarding the MoversConnect service for this account by checking this flag. The emails provide valuable information on service stoppage, errors, logging, etc.

The application utilizes an email profile established on your SQL Server to generate the email notifications (set through the Sql Server Email Profile setting). The recipients of the email list within the MoversConnect Email Recipient list (below).

The information included in the email notifications is also documented within MoversConnect Log and within MoversConnect Status.

Sql Server Email Profile

When Activate Email Notifications is enabled, set the profile established within your local Microsoft SQL Server to send messages from (up to 128 characters).

MoversConnect Queue Name

Enter the name of the service queue folder to place messages from MoversConnect and MoversSuite API Service (up to 128 characters), e.g. .\private$\mss_moversconnect.

Last Modified By

 

 

 

 

The name of the MoversSuite user that updated this record along with the day, date, and time of the change.

Last Modified On

Cloud Credentials

Provide the username and password referenced to log into MoversConnect. This option opens a separate MoversConnect Cloud Account Login prompt that allows you to provide the service credentials.

Verify Credentials

Once Cloud Credentials are established, press this button to send a request to verify that the credentials can successfully access MoversConnect through the MoversSuite API Service.

Last Verified Credentials On

The day, date, and time that the credentials set through the Cloud Credentials were successfully verified.

Verify Cloud Connections

Use this function to verify that the connections setup through MoversConnect allow the MoversSuite API Service to connect to external services, such as a van line.

Last Verified Connections On

The day, date, and time that the connections were last successfully verified.

Restart Api Service

Once you make any changes within this setup, you can update MoversConnect with those changes by using this option. Once the update finishes, your changes will be live. Please test these changes and make corrections as needed. The update utilizes the Web Api Service and MoversSuite API Service to send these changes to the MoversConnect Api Service.

MoversConnect Email Recipient

 

Click this section to establish personnel you wish to receive email notifications regarding MoversSuite API Service and MoversConnect. The service must have the Activate Email Notifications enabled along with the Sql Server Email Profile being specified to utilize email notifications (see above description).

Utilize the Add MoversConnect Email Recipient dialog to enter or update recipient records.

Note: Multiple email addresses may be entered for each MoversConnect Email Recipient (up to 100 characters in the field total). Separate email addresses with a comma or a semicolon

Mobile Api Setup

 

Refer to Mobile Api Setup for more information on utilizing this tab.

 

 

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