Connect Mode for FTP Sender

Dear all,
We have options for Connect mode as Permanently & Per file transfer, When we connect to FTP site, which is the best one to choose according to best practice?
Regards

If you have large number of small files to be retrieved, "permanently" mode reduces the overhead caused by creating a new connection.
However, this will keep the connection open until the next polling. So, if you have polling each 1 hour, the connection will be held open. SAP recommends the "per file transfer" usage.
Please also check the SDN thread below:
Connect Mode: Permanent Vs Per File Transfer

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Difference between passive and active data connection mode for FTP

Hi,
Does any body have the idea of passive and active data connection mode for the transport protocol FTP.
I have one server with FTP, I have to pick the data from this FTP to XI.
What is the difference between active and passive data connection? Does XI supports both the connections?
Thanks & Regards
Katta Mohan Reddy

Hi
According to SAP Note - 821267
Q: Does the File Adapter support active data connections when connecting to an FTP server?
A: Up to and including SP14, the File Adapter exclusively uses passive data connections. Starting with SP15, active connections will be available.
Difference between active and passive,
You can definitely refer to the site mentioned by Suraj
cheers
Sameer

FTP/SSL Connection Problem for FTP Receiver Adapter

Hello All,
We are trying to establish an FTPS/SSL connection with one of our customers from our XI(Unix) system, and are receive following error:
iaik.security.ssl.SSLException: Server certificate rejected by ChainVerifier
Communication Channel Parameters:
Connection Security: FTP (FTP Using SSL/TLS) for Control Connection or FTP (FTP Using SSL/TLS) for Control Connection and Data Connection
Command Order: AUTH TLS, USER, PASS, PBSZ, PROT
Checkbox - Use X.509 Certificate.... checked (Certificate was provided by third party (customer issued) and uploaded to service_ssl certificate store on J2EE server)
Data Connection: Passive
Port: 10021
Keystore: service_ssl
X.509 Certificate & Private Key: ssl-credentials
Note: Initial handshaking occurs but connection is being dropped by the third party FTP Server when SSL certificate credentials are being validated. We also tried connecting to the third party FTPS server using standard FTPS client(FileZilla software), this connection gets established successfully with no certificate issues which means certificate and third party FTP Server is functioning correctly.
We therefore are thinking that the problem lies with our XI system being unable to load the certificate information correctly at the point when FTPS session is being established.
Your help and suggestions will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks and Best Regards
Prashant Rajani

Hello All,
Further in order to test connection set up and communication channel configuration we tried simulating the FTP connection locally by configuring FTP Server using FileZilla at a local machine and accessed it from Client's XI Server.
This set up simulates the problem we encounter with our customer's FTP Server.
If connection security parameter in communication channel for Sender FTP Adapter is set to "FTPs( FTP Using SSL/TLS) with Control Connection" only, file gets successfully created with data at the FTP server but as soon as we switch the connection security parameter to "FTPs( FTP Using SSL/TLS) with Control and Data Connection", we receive error "Certificate rejected by Chain Verifier". The initial handshaking happens successfully and file gets created at the FTP Server but its empty, connection fails when attempt is made to write data into file and we end up with said error thereby closing the connection.
This is what the FTP (FileZilla) sees when the XI system attempts to set-up a fully encrypted data (FTPS) connection i.e., connection security parameter value as"FTPs( FTP Using SSL/TLS) with Control and Data Connection" :-
- (not logged in) (10.18.106.34)> Connected, sending welcome message...
- (not logged in) (10.18.106.34)> 220-FileZilla Server version 0.9.18 beta
- (not logged in) (10.18.106.34)> 220-written by Tim Kosse ([email protected])
- (not logged in) (10.18.106.34)> 220 Please visit http://sourceforge.net/projects/filezilla/
- (not logged in) (10.18.106.34)> AUTH TLS
- (not logged in) (10.18.106.34)> 234 Using authentication type TLS
- (not logged in) (10.18.106.34)> SSL connection established
- (not logged in) (10.18.106.34)> USER test
- (not logged in) (10.18.106.34)> 331 Password required for test
- (not logged in) (10.18.106.34)> PASS ***********
- test (10.18.106.34)> 230 Logged on
- test (10.18.106.34)> PBSZ 0
- test (10.18.106.34)> 200 PBSZ=0
- test (10.18.106.34)> PROT P
- test (10.18.106.34)> 200 Protection level set to P
- test (10.18.106.34)> SYST
- test (10.18.106.34)> 215 UNIX emulated by FileZilla
- test (10.18.106.34)> PWD
- test (10.18.106.34)> 257 "/" is current directory.
- test (10.18.106.34)> CWD /payment/
- test (10.18.106.34)> 250 CWD successful. "/payment" is current directory.- test (10.18.106.34)> TYPE I
- test (10.18.106.34)> 200 Type set to I
- test (10.18.106.34)> PASV
- test (10.18.106.34)> 227 Entering Passive Mode (10,27,7,103,15,63)- test (10.18.106.34)> STOR BHPDSB20060911-153840-834.txt
- test (10.18.106.34)> 150 Connection accepted
- test (10.18.106.34)> Data connection SSL warning: SSL3 alert read: fatal: bad certificate
- test (10.18.106.34)> Data connection SSL warning: SSL_accept: failed in SSLv3 read client certificate A- test (10.18.106.34)> Data connection SSL warning: error:14094412:SSL routines:SSL3_READ_BYTES:sslv3 alert bad certificate- test (10.18.106.34)> Data connection SSL warning: error:140940E5:SSL routines:SSL3_READ_BYTES:ssl handshake failure- test (10.18.106.34)> 426 Connection closed; transfer aborted.- test (10.18.106.34)> QUIT
- test (10.18.106.34)> 221 Goodbye
- test (10.18.106.34)> SSL connection established
Please suggest your valuable inputs if we are missing out something. Any helpful inputs in this regard is highly appreciated.
Thanks and Best Regards
Prashant

How To Active/Passive Mode for FTP Adapter?

Hi there,
For one of our adapters we need to communicate with a FTP server which only accepts FTP connections in active mode. It seems that Xi uses by default the FTP passive mode.
The question is; is it possible to switch to the active mode? and How to do that?
Any feedback is appreciated.
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Hi Robert,
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Any way to set "active mode" for FTP, or to use sFTP instead?

I have a web host that does not support passive FTP mode. I need to either set the mode to be "active mode", or I need to use secure FTP (sFTP). Is there any support for either of these within Muse?

Hi
By default , Adobe Muse FTP option uses " Passive Mode" , I am afraid its not possible to switch to "Active Mode" or to switch to Secure FTP. Alternatively, you may export the site locally using " Export as HTML " and then you may use third party FTP client to upload the site to your third party hosting using Active or Secure FTP.
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FTP (Sender) Adapter - Polling Problem

Hello everyone!
I'm trying to pick up an XML file using the FTP Adapter (Sender).
Weird thing is that I have set the "polling interval" for 60secs, but the FTP adapter doesn't seem to want to repeat polling at the said time interval.
It only picks up the file once, and after that no more polling occurs.
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Warm regards,
Glenn
PS. We are on PI 7.0, SP11.

Hi Glenn,
Check the connection mode in FTP adapter.
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If it still doesnt work then contact the guys who are maintaining the FTP server.
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When you configure the Connection Factory for FTP Adapter in Admin Console, provide the following values for the attributes like the hostname, username, password, port and the path of remote location as where
you want to write the file in remote Server i.e., ftpAbsolutePathBegin. Please fill this
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I am very new as apps dba(2 days). At the very first day i was told that while shutting down db it stays in 'connected mode' for a long time (3 hours) and it is happening from 2 days.
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user13290188 wrote:
hi,
I am using shutdown normal (in apps oracle provides addbctl.sh to start/stop db). I am using that.
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i now have the below question.
we know normally there are three ways of connection between SAP ECC and PI.
1. proxy
2. RFC
3. IDoc
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eg. ABAP connection, HTTP connection, TCP/IP connection?

Hi Aditya,
As far as I know:
1. proxy    uses type 3 connection (ABAP)
2. RFC       uses type T connection (TCP/IP)
3. IDoc      uses type 3 connection (ABAP)
However, let us wait for the response of others.
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DB in connected mode

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Check this:
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Need help to Configure FTPS connection for File Sender Adapter

Hi,
I want to Configure, FTPS connection (Secured Connection) for File Sender Adapter. Could anyone please guide me, what Information I require to configure. I just want to know what Information should I request the team inorder the configure FTPS so that it can be deployed properly.
I have checked with [SAP Help Link|http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/EN/e3/94007075cae04f930cc4c034e411e1/content.htm] and while configuring the communication channel found that I need Keystore and the X.509 Certificate and Private Key. which needs to be deployed on the J2EE server by using the Visual Administrator.
Is there anything else, I need to configure.
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Thanks & Regards,
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The basic things are Certificate/Keys which you already know. Usually it is enough for running a sceanrio.
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File selection sequence in the FTP connection for File Sender Adapter

Hi,
I have a file to Proxy scenario using FTP connection parameters.
If there are multiple files in the sender folder, XI picks up the files randomly with no processing sequence.
I want XI to pick up the files based on the date time stamp meaning the oldest file created in the folder should be processes first and rest all in sequence there after.
I know processing sequence can be set for NFS connection but not for FTP .
Please suggest if there's any way to make this work.
Thanks in advance.
Thanks and Regards,
Amit Bhagwat.
Edited by: Amit Bhagwat on Nov 4, 2009 5:17 AM

Hi
For the Transport Protocol "File Transfer Protocol (FTP)" files are always processed in ascending alphabetical order
If you want the file to be processed in sequence then you can use Quality of Service EOIO in the sender adapter.
The files are processed in the sequence they are picked up.
otherwise use BPM for File Sequencing..
Refer the following Threads
FTP Sender Adapter - Processing Sequence
Processing Sequence issue of FTP protocol
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Abhijit
Edited by: Abhijit Bolakhe on Nov 4, 2009 10:32 AM

Some FTP servers require active mode for connection.

Is there any option for select active mode during FTP server connection in iweb ?

No, but go and Click on the Apple symbol on your Mac and then open System Preferences. Once is System Preferences go and open Network and then in the bottom right corner of Network click on Advanced and then click on Proxies and at the bottom of the Proxies page there is a setting called passive ftp mode that might be check by default. If it is, then try unchecking it and then uploading your site with iWeb ftp and seeing what happens.
If this does not work, then your other option of course is to publish your site to a local folder from iWeb and then use something like Cyberduck to upload your site.

Unable to send file in binary mode to ftp server using AIR application

Hi, Can any one help me. i am trying to send local files to ftp server in binary mode from AIR application using sockets.
I cant use PASV mode for this FTP server because security restrictions. when i am trying to send Binary command i am always getting
error code 500 which is unrecognized command. I googled for solutions but i cant find any one using Binary mode to send data every example is using PASV mode to send
file.
code example:
private function upload():void{
sendCommand("binary ");
private function sendCommand(arg:String):void {
                                        arg +="\n";
                                        s.writeUTFBytes(arg);
                                        s.flush();
in response i am getting unrecognized command.

I'm successfully using an ftp example from http://http://projects.maliboo.pl/FlexFTP/
that I converted to spark and uses a popup progress window.
If you don't need to use sockets I can post a sample project.
I believe I still connect with PASV, but have no problems sending Binary files.
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Proxy settings for dynamic ftp send port

Does anyone have an idea how to configure the proxy settings when using a dynamic send port to connect to an ftp server?
When using the FTP send port there is the property 'Server' to specify the proxy settings, but how would this be done with a dynamic send port?
I can't find anything about this. And there doesn't seem to be a property
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It seems like most or all of the FTP properties are exposed in the Global Property Schemas assembly. The FTP properties are under the "FTP" namespace (see FTP property schema below).
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related properties set during static transmission and try setting these within your orchestration.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?>
<xs:schema xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/BizTalk/2003/ftp-properties" xmlns:b="http://schemas.microsoft.com/BizTalk/2003" targetNamespace="http://schemas.microsoft.com/BizTalk/2003/ftp-properties" xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
<xs:annotation>
<xs:appinfo>
<b:schemaInfo schema_type="property" xmlns:b="http://schemas.microsoft.com/BizTalk/2003"/>
</xs:appinfo>
</xs:annotation>
<xs:element name="RepresentationType" type="xs:string">
<xs:annotation>
<xs:appinfo>
<b:fieldInfo propSchFieldBase="MessageContextPropertyBase" xmlns:b="http://schemas.microsoft.com/BizTalk/2003" propertyGuid="198b2027-4cde-4677-88f1-7b66caf6473a"/>
</xs:appinfo>
</xs:annotation>
</xs:element>
<xs:element name="SSOAffiliateApplication" type="xs:string">
<xs:annotation>
<xs:appinfo>
<b:fieldInfo propSchFieldBase="MessageContextPropertyBase" xmlns:b="http://schemas.microsoft.com/BizTalk/2003" propertyGuid="8045bcbe-3285-412c-8b5a-dc3be5978c9b"/>
</xs:appinfo>
</xs:annotation>
</xs:element>
<xs:element name="UserName" type="xs:string">
<xs:annotation>
<xs:appinfo>
<b:fieldInfo propSchFieldBase="MessageContextPropertyBase" xmlns:b="http://schemas.microsoft.com/BizTalk/2003" propertyGuid="6E789556-2F81-4fa6-B8E2-5214F1662289"/>
</xs:appinfo>
</xs:annotation>
</xs:element>
<xs:element name="Password" type="xs:string">
<xs:annotation>
<xs:appinfo>
<b:fieldInfo propSchFieldBase="MessageContextPropertyBase" isSensitive="true" xmlns:b="http://schemas.microsoft.com/BizTalk/2003" propertyGuid="FEFD9283-C98A-470d-8E0A-C00214EE4047"/>
</xs:appinfo>
</xs:annotation>
</xs:element>
<xs:element name="BeforePut" type="xs:string">
<xs:annotation>
<xs:appinfo>
<b:fieldInfo propSchFieldBase="MessageContextPropertyBase" xmlns:b="http://schemas.microsoft.com/BizTalk/2003" propertyGuid="58C0F130-2D2D-4374-8418-714A31046A58"/>
</xs:appinfo>
</xs:annotation>
</xs:element>
<xs:element name="AfterPut" type="xs:string">
<xs:annotation>
<xs:appinfo>
<b:fieldInfo propSchFieldBase="MessageContextPropertyBase" xmlns:b="http://schemas.microsoft.com/BizTalk/2003" propertyGuid="CFBD9956-B0C6-48af-9257-4E27C7771998"/>
</xs:appinfo>
</xs:annotation>
</xs:element>
<xs:element name="ReceivedFileName" type="xs:string">
<xs:annotation>
<xs:appinfo>
<b:fieldInfo propSchFieldBase="MessageContextPropertyBase" xmlns:b="http://schemas.microsoft.com/BizTalk/2003" propertyGuid="441B372A-23A1-4465-8329-F56AC0BDBFD8"/>
</xs:appinfo>
</xs:annotation>
</xs:element>
<xs:element name="MaxConnections" type="xs:unsignedInt">
<xs:annotation>
<xs:appinfo>
<b:fieldInfo propSchFieldBase="MessageContextPropertyBase" xmlns:b="http://schemas.microsoft.com/BizTalk/2003" propertyGuid="0A580338-036A-411B-A28A-1BCC86E56458"/>
</xs:appinfo>
</xs:annotation>
</xs:element>
<xs:element name="CommandLogFileName" type="xs:string">
<xs:annotation>
<xs:appinfo>
<b:fieldInfo propSchFieldBase="MessageContextPropertyBase" xmlns:b="http://schemas.microsoft.com/BizTalk/2003" propertyGuid="CCE01F9B-8869-4216-BD7A-8F476FA40327"/>
</xs:appinfo>
</xs:annotation>
</xs:element>
<xs:element name="AllocateStorage" type="xs:boolean">
<xs:annotation>
<xs:appinfo>
<b:fieldInfo propSchFieldBase="MessageContextPropertyBase" xmlns:b="http://schemas.microsoft.com/BizTalk/2003" propertyGuid="4945CA1F-A812-483B-B32F-C98513EBF51E"/>
</xs:appinfo>
</xs:annotation>
</xs:element>
<xs:element name="PassiveMode" type="xs:boolean">
<xs:annotation>
<xs:appinfo>
<b:fieldInfo propSchFieldBase="MessageContextPropertyBase" xmlns:b="http://schemas.microsoft.com/BizTalk/2003" propertyGuid="74B6373E-550F-4434-B2D1-DE912ACDB3A7"/>
</xs:appinfo>
</xs:annotation>
</xs:element>
<xs:element name="SpoolingFolder" type="xs:string">
<xs:annotation>
<xs:appinfo>
<b:fieldInfo propSchFieldBase="MessageContextPropertyBase" xmlns:b="http://schemas.microsoft.com/BizTalk/2003" propertyGuid="1C703221-ADE1-4DF7-9D6E-1770903DC614"/>
</xs:appinfo>
</xs:annotation>
</xs:element>
<xs:element name="UseSsl" type="xs:boolean">
<xs:annotation>
<xs:appinfo>
<b:fieldInfo propSchFieldBase="MessageContextPropertyBase" xmlns:b="http://schemas.microsoft.com/BizTalk/2003" propertyGuid="D032AB42-E927-470C-B5E8-E59A5E32851D"/>
</xs:appinfo>
</xs:annotation>
</xs:element>
<xs:element name="UseDataProtection" type="xs:boolean">
<xs:annotation>
<xs:appinfo>
<b:fieldInfo propSchFieldBase="MessageContextPropertyBase" xmlns:b="http://schemas.microsoft.com/BizTalk/2003" propertyGuid="42E3D7F0-5FF5-4C6E-8E72-BD76D203C6DD"/>
</xs:appinfo>
</xs:annotation>
</xs:element>
<xs:element name="FtpsConnectionMode" type="xs:string">
<xs:annotation>
<xs:appinfo>
<b:fieldInfo propSchFieldBase="MessageContextPropertyBase" xmlns:b="http://schemas.microsoft.com/BizTalk/2003" propertyGuid="EDA0F134-3F42-4DD7-8428-75BA65E7C4CA"/>
</xs:appinfo>
</xs:annotation>
</xs:element>
<xs:element name="ClientCertificateHash" type="xs:string">
<xs:annotation>
<xs:appinfo>
<b:fieldInfo propSchFieldBase="MessageContextPropertyBase" xmlns:b="http://schemas.microsoft.com/BizTalk/2003" propertyGuid="423E6603-652E-4A61-B49F-B632031E3180"/>
</xs:appinfo>
</xs:annotation>
</xs:element>
</xs:schema>
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