An FTP Monitor item monitors the status and availability of an FTP site. Any valid and accessible FTP server can be monitored by the ELM Enterprise Manager Server. An application-layer FTP connection to the FTP Server is made at your specified interval. Anonymous or authenticated connections are supported. By default, port 21 is used, but the Monitor can be configured to use any port.

Because the ELM Enterprise Manager Server (and not an Agent) makes the FTP connection, you can monitor FTP server availability on any operating system running FTP server software (e.g., Unix, Linux, Novell, Solaris, etc.) Though an agent must be assigned to the FTP server.

FTP Monitor Settings

•Username - Can be a specific username or can be set to anonymous.

•Password - Password for the account specified in the Username field. If you entered anonymous for the username, enter any SMTP address as the password.

•FTP Port - The port to which you want the FTP Monitor to connect. By default, TCP port 21 is used. However, you can specify any valid TCP port that is used by the FTP server.

•Warn if QoS slower than __ seconds - You may also monitor the FTP server's performance by monitoring how quickly a response is returned. By specifying a value for this field, you can cause a warning message to be generated whenever the response from the FTP server exceeds the threshold you specify here.

•Execute configured Action(s) for every failure - By default, ELM will notify you once when the FTP server is unavailable. By checking this box, you can specify that failure Actions be executed at each failure.

Note
The FTP Monitor doesn't have a FTP site setting, assign the FTP Monitor to the agent that is hosting the FTP Site.

Actions

•Failed (Error) 5503 - The FTP Monitor was unable to connect to the configured FTP site.

•Success (Informational) 5504 - The FTP Monitor was able to connect to the configured FTP site.

•Quality of Service (Success) 5505 - The FTP Monitor was able to connect to the configured FTP site, but not within the configured QoS time period.

Monitory Category

Displays the Monitoring Categories to which the Monitor item is assigned. Click to select or deselect Monitoring Categories. Click New to create or Properties to Edit Monitoring Categories.

Agents

Displays the Agents to which the Monitor item is assigned. Click to select or deselect individual agents. Click New to deploy an agent or Properties to View/Edit an existing agent.

Schedule

Displays the Scheduled Interval and Scheduled Hours settings which control the frequency for the Monitor Item.

Scheduled Interval tab

Specify the interval at which the monitoring, polling or action is to occur. Depending on the Monitor Item type, Items can be scheduled in interval increments of Seconds, Minutes, Hours and Days. The Scheduled Interval is relative to the top of the hour or top of the minute. For example, if a Scheduled Interval is configured for 10 minutes, the Monitor Item will execute at hh:10:00, hh:20:00, hh:30:00, hh:40:00, hh:50:00, h1:00:00, etc. If a Scheduled Interval is configured for 15 seconds, the Monitor Item will execute at hh:00:15, hh:00:30, hh:00:45, hh:01:00, hh:01:15, etc.

Scheduled Hours tab

Select the days and/or hours this item is active. By default, the schedule is set to ON for all hours and all days. Mouse clicks toggle squares between ON and OFF. Clicking on an individual square will toggle the active schedule for that hour. Clicking on an hour at the top of the grid, or on a day of the week at the left of the grid will toggle the corresponding column or row. Keyboard equivalents are the arrow keys and the space bar.