FTP User Experience template TEST ERRORS

Trying to set up a monitor to goto an ftp site, log in and find a file. I have created a user with r/w ftp access that I have tested from several ftp clients to be sure the client works in both passive and active mode. I have created a file and also tried with no file. when the file is not there I am getting this error -

Testing on node SERVERNAME: failed with 'NotAvailable' status

File "/test.txt" not found.

And when it is there I get -

Testing on node SERVERNAME: failed with 'NotAvailable' status

The file "/test.txt" was found, but its contents have changed.

I imagine it's because the credentials need to be entered right upon entering the site, THEN you can look for a file. For example, if you were to put ftp://ftp.servername.com in a web browser you would get "page can't be displayed" because it will only prompt for the uname/pwd at ftp://ftp.servername.com. We thought maybe that meant that we have to put the name of the file in the field, "Select and upload a file for snapshot creation:" but that doesn't work, either. Help!/test.txt

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hockeychic29

After reading the definition of the monitor for the 5^th time I realized that it is NOT designed to goto the site and just “locate” a file. It is supposed to go to the site and compare a file there with one you have in a repository and it will alert if any change has been made. So, although it is essentially locating the file, there’s no way to get around it also doing the checksum. That would require us to script a new template (I will continue to try finding one on thwack).

If we don’t succeed in getting a template specifically created for our need, I suggested storing the checksum files on the SW server and creating a file on the server and a copy of it on the site. Just hope no one alters it otherwise we’ll get dinged.

Here I put the full path to the file in the URL field and in the file field I browsed to a copy I made of the file on my desktop. That makes sense now why the BROWSE button is there!

Does anyone know how to make a template to ONLY LOOK FOR A FILE?

bmcmcm

Put the file in the FTP directory, then download a copy of it and load that into the application monitor. In my case, FTP modified the file upon upload, so the SHA1 hash changed. I don't know what was modified in the file, only that the file was definitely calculating a different SHA1 value from the original file.