You open the Netia FTP agent configuration dialog from a workflow configuration. To open the Archiving forwarding agent configuration, click Build → New Configuration. Select Workflow from the Configurations dialog. When prompted to Select workflow type, select Batch. Click Add agent and select NetiaFTP from the Collection tab in the Agent Selection list.
Part of the configuration can be done in the Filename Template tab, see Workflow Template.
Connection Tab
The Connection tab contains configuration data that is relevant to a remote server.
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For example if the FTP server used does not return the file listed in a well defined format, the Disable File Detail Parsing option can be useful. For information refer to that section.
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Command Port | The value in this field defines which port number the FTP service will use on the remote host. |
Timeout (s) | The maximum time, in seconds, to wait for a response from the server. 0 (zero) means to wait forever. |
Passive Mode (PASV) | This setting must be enabled if FTP passive mode is used for data connection. In passive mode, the channel for data transfer between client and server is initiated by the client instead of by the server. This is useful when a firewall is situated between the client and the server. |
Disable File Detail Parsing | This setting disables parsing of file detail information received from the FTP server. This enhances the compatibility with unusual FTP servers but disables some functionality. If file detail parsing is disabled, file modification timestamps are unavailable to the collector. The collector does not have the ability to distinguish between directories and simple files. For that reason, subdirectories in the input directory must not match the filename regular expression. The agent assumes that a file named DR_TMP_DIR is a directory because a directory named DR_TMP_DIR is used when Move to Temporary Directory in the Source tab is activated. Therefore, you cannot name a regular file in the collection directory DR_TMP_DIR. |
Additional Hosts | List of additional host names or IP addresses that may be used to access the source directory, from which the source files are collected. These hosts are tried, in sequence from top to bottom, if the agent fails to connect to the remote host, set in the Connection |
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Use the Add, Edit, Remove, Move up and Move down buttons to configure the host list. |
Filename Sequence Tab
The Filename Sequence settings are used when you want to collect files containing a sequence number in the file name. The sequence number is expected to be found on a specific position in the file name and will have a
fixed or dynamic size.
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Note!When collecting from several sources, the Filename Sequence settings are applied on data arriving from all the sources, as though all the information arrived from a single source. This means that the Filename Sequence number count is not specific to any of the sources. |
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