Configuring FTP adapter using .ppk file

Question

Hi:
I am trying to configure FTP adapter in Weblogic for making a secured connection. My destination system provided a .ppk file, username and password to make a connection. I tried using both the Authentication Type PASSWORD as well as PUBLICKEY, but in both cases i am getting this error
<part name="summary">
<summary>Exception occured when binding was invoked. Exception occured during invocation of JCA binding: "JCA Binding execute of Reference operation 'FileListing' failed due to: JCA Binding Component connection issue. JCA Binding Component is unable to create an outbound JCA (CCI) connection. FileConsumer:FTP_ListFiles_out [ FileListing_ptt::FileListing(Empty,filelist) ] : The JCA Binding Component was unable to establish an outbound JCA CCI connection due to the following issue: Error in establishing a session with SSH Server.. Error in establishing a session with SSH Server.. Unable to establish a session with the server. Please ensure hostname and port specified to login to the server are correct. Please make sure that the JCA connection factory and any dependent connection factories have been configured with a sufficient limit for max connections. Please also make sure that the physical connection to the backend EIS is available and the backend itself is accepting connections. ". The invoked JCA adapter raised a resource exception. Please examine the above error message carefully to determine a resolution. </summary>
</part>
<part name="detail">
<detail>Too many authentication failures for testuser</detail>
And in SOA logs i am getting this below error
####<Apr 30, 2013 1:46:05 AM EDT> <Warning> <Connector> <[email protected]> <soa_server1> <orabpel.invoke.pool-4.thread-3> <<anonymous>> <BEA1-4A34E1F57560E2DF58E4> <43b21ccaefeebde3:1e7743d9:13dfccfff26:-8000-00000000008dee9f> <1367300765147> <BEA-190032> << eis/sftp/qwer > ResourceAllocationException thrown by resource adapter on call to ManagedConnectionFactory.createManagedConnection(): "BINDING.JCA-11447
Error in establishing a session with SSH Server..
Error in establishing a session with SSH Server..
Unable to establish a session with the server.
Please ensure hostname and port specified to login to the server are correct.
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SOA Version: 11.1.1.6, Weblogic Version: 10.3.6
Regards
RK

Answer 1

As you suggested, you can write a custom adapter where you can do duplicate check, file move to duplicate directory and email notification.
 But this is trying to cover many business processes under adapter functionality whose intend purpose is just to
work with a transport, speak the transmission protocol and
transfer the file.
Custom adapter:
But still you can do these functionalities in custom adapter.
For article, white papers and webcast for developing custom adapter refer this MSDN page:
Developing Adapters using the BizTalk Adapter Framework
You can still use BizTalk adapter wizard which gives you the template files including registry key required for registering the custom adapter. This may need Visual Studio
2005 to get the template project created. The export Visual Studio 2005 to your latest version to get the template for your latest version. And write your FTP library code in the placeholders.
Or refer the SDK for sample custom adapter and replace those custom functionalities to yours to make and update SDK samples work for you.
http://biztalkadapterwizard.codeplex.com/releases/view/3892
No to custom pipeline:
 Your functionalities are not meant for custom pipeline processing. Pipelines are meant for preparing the received message for further processing or preparing the message/file to be sent out. Custom pipeline is not the correct place to write
your functionalities.
Try to isolate the functionalities and handle it different modules and don’t pack everything in custom adapter. For example, you can just use custom adapter
to FTP the file, if it’s a duplicate file transfer the file to different folder location. You can (or ask the team who own the FTP server) to send an email if the duplicate folder receives a file. This would improve the performance of the adapter.
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