Ftp type

The ftp type is used to receive data using the File Transfer Protocol. It is available for Windows and Linux Agents.

Available settings:

Basic settings tab:
- Name (required)—a unique name for this type of resource. Must contain from 1 to 128 Unicode characters.
- Tenant (required)—name of the tenant that owns the resource.
- Type (required)—connector type.
- URL (required)—actual URL of the file or file mask beginning with 'ftp://'. For a file mask, you can use * ? [...].
  File mask templates
  Masks:
  - '*'—matches any sequence of characters.
  - '[' [ '^' ] { range of characters } ']'—class of characters (should not be left blank).
  - '?'—matches any single character.
  - c—matches the c character (c != '*', '?', '\\', '[').
  - '\\' c—matches the c character.
  Ranges of characters:
  - c—matches the c character (c != '\\', '-', ']').
  - '\\' c—matches the c character.
  - lo '-' hi—matches the c character for lo <= c <= hi.
  Examples:
  - /var/log/*som?[1-9].log
  - /mnt/dns_logs/*/dns.log
  - /mnt/proxy/access*.log
  If the URL does not include the FTP server port, port 21 is inserted.
- Description—up to 256 Unicode characters describing the resource.
Advanced settings tab:
- Character encoding setting specifies character encoding. The default value is UTF-8.
- Compression—you can use Snappy compression. By default, compression is disabled.
- Debug—a drop-down list where you can specify whether resource logging should be enabled. By default it is Disabled.