Configuration

The Configuration tab has the following fields.

Field

Description

Name

The name to appear as the label for the resource.

Description

Short description of the shared resource.

SSL

Specifies to use the HTTPS (secure socket layer or SSL) protocol for the FTP connection. This protocol authenticates the FTP client to the server.

Enabling this field allows you to specify SSL parameters with the Configure SSL button (described in Configure SSL Button).

Host

Host name or IP address of the FTP server.

Port

Port number of the FTP server. For connections inside of a firewall, 21 is the default when no value is specified in this field.

User Name

User name to use when logging into the FTP server.

Password

Password to use when logging into the FTP server.

Mode

Specifies whether to use Active or Passive mode to connect to the FTP server.

Connection Timeout (msec)

The timeout specified in this field (in milliseconds) applies to the following situations:

  • Making the control socket connection to the FTP Server.

  • Making the data socket connection to the FTP server. (passive mode)

  • Waiting for the data socket connection from the FTP server. (active mode)

  • Reading a reply from control socket after sending a FTP control command.

  • Reading data from data socket.

If the specified time is reached when attempting any of these operations, the activity using this FTP connection terminates without error and takes any matching success transitions to the next activity in the process definition.

Remote Filename Encoding

A drop down list of values for specifying the character encoding of file names supplied to FTP commands using this connection.

The encoding specified in this field is used when sending path and file names supplied to FTP commands that use this FTP Connection resource. Set this field when the FTP server has a different system encoding than the machine where the process engine is running.

Firewall

Specifies whether the FTP host resides outside of a firewall. If this field is checked, you must supply the Proxy Host and Proxy Port fields with the name and the port of the proxy server used to access sites outside of a firewall. You can optionally specify the User Name and Password for the proxy server, if necessary.

Proxy Host

Used when the remote FTP server is outside of a firewall. Specifies the host name or IP address of the firewall server.

Proxy Port

Used when the remote FTP server is outside of a firewall. Specifies the port number of the firewall server.

Proxy User Name

Used when the remote FTP server is outside of a firewall. Specifies the user name to use to connect to the proxy server, if necessary.

Proxy Password

Used when the remote FTP server is outside of a firewall. Specifies the password to use for the specified user name when connecting to the proxy server, if necessary.