The FTP Connector includes a single set of connection properties you need to interact with FTP/SFTP servers. This means that you can specify the connection settings once and define multiple Event Sources or Event Targets to perform different FTP monitoring or file writing operations. For example, you can monitor one directory for new files while you also read and write file content in other directories. The event sources and event targets generate process objects you can consume or invoke in Process Designer.
The following authentication types are available when you define an FTP connection:
•Anonymous access.
•Password-based authentication.
•Key-based authentication (for SFTP only).
The following Event Source types are available:
•FTP Monitor. Monitors a remote FTP server location for new files.
•FTP Fixed Width Parser. Monitors a remote FTP location for new files and parses the fixed-width file contents of each file.
•FTP Delimited Content Parser. Monitors a remote FTP location for new files and parses the delimited file contents of each file.
The following Event Target types are available:
•FTP Writer. Writes files to a remote FTP server location.
•FTP Delimited Content Writer. Writes delimited files to a target directory on a remote FTP server.
•FTP File Transferer. Transfers files to a remote FTP server.