Installing Control Center FTP Agent V6.4.0

To monitor FTP servers with IBM® Sterling Control Center Monitor, you must install and configure an IBM Sterling Control Center Monitor FTP agent.

Before you begin

Note: Since the v6.4.0 agent uses the OSA mechanism, there is no need to add the FTP Server via UI after installing and configuring the agent. The agent will automatically register with the Control Center Monitor when it starts.
Note: To use the IBM Sterling Control Center Monitor FTP agent, it must be installed on the computer that is running the FTP server. If you want to use FTP logs, IBM Sterling Control Center Monitor must have "read" access to the log file of the FTP server, and you must provide the name and directory location of the FTP logs.

About this task

The following list describes the high-level steps involved in setting up for monitoring of FTP servers:

Procedure

  1. Enable the FTP server to write transfer activities to a log file.
  2. Enable read access to the FTP server log file for the IBM Sterling Control Center Monitor FTP agent.
  3. Install the IBM Sterling Control Center Monitor FTP agent on the computer where the FTP server is located
  4. Configure the FTP Agent by following the steps:
    1. Edit the file named osaFtpAgent.properties located under conf directory.
    2. The following properties must be configured:
      • event.repository.url: URL for Control Center Monitor Event Repository
      • ftp.server.alias: Name that will be used to register with Control Center Monitor
      • ftp.server.address: Address of FTP Server
      • ftp.server.logFileName: Full path of the FTP log file
      • ftp.server.agentType: Agent Type should be set to "XFER" for FTP servers writing xferlog formatted log files, "W3C" for FTP servers writing W3C formatted log files, or "IIS" for FTP servers writing IIS formatted log files
      • ftp.server.logKeys: Configure the order, and available, log keys for the FTP server to be monitored
    3. Save the configuration changes
    4. OSA FTP Agent – different node type
    5. Not manually added
    6. How to configure ftpAgent.properties for various FTP servers
  5. Start the FTP Agent by running runOsaFtpAgent.sh/bat
    Upon successful start, FTP Agent will register with Control Center Monitor.