Failover solution for Sender File Adapter (FTP)

Hi guys,
I have a scenario FTP->Idoc. Is it possible within PI to create a functionality, that if a connection to one FTP fails, it will switch to another FTP?
Thank you,
Peter

Hi,
You may maintain two seperate Sender adapters with seperate FTP server and fix the polling interval to sequence the calling of file.
But if the file is available on both the FTP servers then there will be two calls always.
So you need to maintain the file in any one of the FTP server.
But this is just the manipulation, not the precise solution. You may go for BPM also
In communication channel there is no such feasibility. Probably you may need to go for customized adapter modules.
Thanks
swarup
Edited by: Swarup Sawant on Sep 2, 2008 11:42 AM

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Hi Everyone,
I could Succeed to some extent.
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Key Field Name: KZ
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Message.endSeparator:'nl'
Head.fieldFixedLengths:1,3,8
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Head.keyFieldValue:2
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Head.endSeparator:'nl'
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Message.keyFieldValue:3
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Message.fieldSeparator:,
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2,123,test.xml
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