FTP Service Settings

Property

Description

Enabled

Enables/disables FTP server monitoring.

Protocol

Transfer protocol, FTP or SFTP.

Port

Port number the FTP/SFTP server is running on.

User Name

User name to use for authentication.

Password

Password to use for authentication.

Mode

FTP mode to use: Active or Passive (default).

Active Minimum Port

Minimal port number that will be assigned to a data connection when using Active mode. FTP only.

Active Maximum Port

Maximal port number that will be assigned to a data connection when using Active mode. FTP only.

Path

Path of file or folder to be monitored (optional). FTP only.

Read Contents

Defines whether the above file/folder contents should be read. FTP only.

File Encoding

Defines the encoding of the file content. FTP only.

Incremental Reading

Switches between reading the whole file and incremental reading.

Incremental reading is ideal for log file analysis. If it's enabled, the server remembers previous file size and, during the next synchronization cycle, reads data starting from the previous end point to the end of file. If the file size has not grown since the previous cycle, no reading is performed. If file size has decreased, the reading is restarted from file start (this is suitable to handle log file rotation). FTP only.

Maximum Read Size

Maximum number of bytes that the server will read if incremental reading is enabled. FTP only.

Backlog Read Size

Number of bytes to include from previous steps of incremental reading. FTP only.

Timeout, milliseconds

FTP/SFTP server operations timeout.