Connection property | Description |
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Connection Name | Name of the connection. Each connection name must be unique within the organization. Connection names can contain alphanumeric characters, spaces, and the following special characters: _ . + -, Maximum length is 255 characters. |
Description | Description of the connection. Maximum length is 4000 characters. |
Use Secret Vault | Stores sensitive credentials for this connection in the secrets manager that is configured for your organization. This property appears only if secrets manager is set up for your organization. When you enable the secret vault in the connection, you can select which credentials that the Secure Agent retrieves from the secrets manager. If you don't enable this option, the credentials are stored in the repository or on a local Secure Agent, depending on how your organization is configured. Note: If you’re using this connection to apply data access policies through pushdown or proxy services, you cannot use the Secret Vault configuration option. For information about how to configure and use a secrets manager, see Secrets manager configuration. |
Runtime Environment | The name of the runtime environment where you want to run tasks. Select a Secure Agent or elastic runtime environment. For more information about how to configure and use the runtime environments, see Runtime environments. |
Source File Directory | The location that contains files you want to transfer. |
Target File Directory | The location where you want to place the transferred files. |
Select File | The files that you want to transfer. You can select files based on the fields. |
File Pattern | The pattern of the files that you want to transfer. For example, to select a file based on a date pattern, you can specify the date format as DD/MM/YYYY, MM-dd-yyyy, yyyy-MM-dd, or yyyy-MM-d in the file pattern field. Note: The File Pattern field is not applicable when you select all in the Select File connection property. |
Days Calculation | Selects files that are created or modified before the specified date or after the specified date. Select files based on Contains Date Pattern and specify the days calculation value so that you can select files that are modified before or after the specified date. Specify the value in terms of days. You cannot specify the value in terms of month and year. You can specify the following date formats: DD/MM/YYYY, MM-dd-yyyy or yyyy-MM-d format. For example, to select a file based on Contains Date Pattern and use the data filters to specify the LastModDate as 02/02/2016, and specify days calculation as -1. Files that are modified till 01/02/2016 are selected. |
PassKey | The credentials to connect to FTP or SFTP server. For example, you can specify the password and passphrase of the FTP or SFTP server as passkey1 and passkey2 values. |