SFTP Adapter in PI 7.3x

[anand_shankar10]

Hi to the Beginners,

This document is for the new PI developers who have the advantage of using the SFTP adapter out of the PI server (7.3).

This is a small document with details of different options for SFTP Adapter.

Configuring the SENDER SFTP adapter

# We need server fingerprint which can be provided by SFTP server admin.

# In the proxy part we have multiple option available for the type of Sender server

For different type of server, we have to configure accordingly.

# File Name 

We have an interesting feature to use a particular pattern for file name like you can use

[0-9].[A-Z]*.txt

It means that the file name should start with digit and the second character should be capital letter and then any other thing, eg: 0Aemployee.txt

# Additional Files: you can configure it the same way as you do it in File adapter for multiple file names.

# Pooling interval as per the requirement.

# In the processing tab we have a superb feature of Duplicate File check. This allows you to stop processing the already processed file. Unless we have to use custom module like we use in File Adapter.

# Rest all the features are self explanotory.

# In the advanced tab we can use the Namespace in case of dynamic naming convention for the files.

# We have the option to archive the files on PI as well as SFTP server.

# We have the option to use private key authentication, if the SFTP server is configured for the same.

# Only drawback in SFTP adapter is the absence of FCC. We will have to use the standard Message Transformation Bean module to fulfill our requirement.

　

Configuring the RECEIVER SFTP adapter

　

# We have the option to select the Proxy parameters and private Key authentication similar to sender channel configuration.

# We can mention the File name and directory details at the SFTP server.

# In the Processing tab we have all the self explanatory fields.

# Timeunit can be given in Miliseconds, seconds and Minutes.

　

# The write modus gives us the flexibility to create a new file or to append in an existing file or to use a temporary file while writing.

# In the advanced tab we have the option for Variable substitution for dynamic file names and in that case we have to use ASMA to provide the namespace.

# In the Module tab we can use MTB module to use the file content conversion.