Configure General Settings

The following table describes general configuration parameters. Specify any other parameters required to configure Sterling Connect:Direct File Agent to operate on your site.

Parameters Description
Comments Type comments to describe the configuration. Comments are not used during the execution of Sterling Connect:Direct Integrated File Agent.
Connect:Direct Userid Required. Type the userid to use when connecting to the Sterling Connect:Direct server. This field is case-sensitive.

The userid must have permission to submit Sterling Connect:Direct Process and perform external statistics logging on the Sterling Connect:Direct server. Additional permissions may be required to perform steps defined in the Sterling Connect:Direct Processes.

Connect:Direct Password

Type the associated password for the userid. This is the password that allows you to connect to the Sterling Connect:Direct server. This field is case-sensitive.

Leave this field empty when using certificate-based authentication. Additional configuration of the userid and Secure+ is required on the Sterling Connect:Direct server.

Continuous signon

Select Yes (default) to stay connected to the API port whenever Integrated File Agent is active, or select No to disconnect Integrated File Agent and reconnect each time Processes are submitted after a directory scan.

If Continuous signon is Yes, Integrated File Agent will open a new connection to the Sterling Connect:Direct Server the first time that a Process is submitted for a file found during the scan, and will leave that connection to the Sterling Connect:Direct server open until Integrated File Agent is stopped. Use this option if files are placed in the watched directories more or less continuously.

If Continuous signon is No, Integrated File Agent will sign on to the Sterling Connect:Direct server the first time it submits a Process for a file found during the scan, and will close the connection to the Sterling Connect:Direct server when all Processes have been submitted for files found during the scan. When files are found during a subsequent scan, Integrated File Agent will open a new connection to the Sterling Control Center server. Use this option if there are more than a few minutes between files being placed in the watched directories.

Watch file interval

Type the number of minutes that you want Integrated File Agent to wait before checking the watch directories for files.

By default, Integrated File Agent checks the watch directories for files once each minute.

This field specifies how long Integrated File Agent waits between directory scans. If you need to transfer files quickly after they are placed into the watched directories, specify a short Watch file interval. However, if there aren't many files placed into the watched directories, set a longer Watch file interval so that Integrated File Agent is not scanning the watched directories as often. There is a trade-off between the processing time that Integrated File Agent uses to scan the directories and the need to transfer the files quickly.

File completion delay

Type the number of minutes that you want Integrated File Agent to wait before considering a detected file being complete and ready for processing. The default time is 1 minute.

This field applies when different tasks can access the same file simultaneously. This may cause problems if Integrated File Agent detects that a file is present in the watched directory and processes it before another application has closed it. Set this delay to allow an application to finish with the file before Integrated File Agent accesses the file.