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I second the idea of using Splunk. You can configure Events in Serv-U that trigger when all sorts of user operations are undertaken. You can then easily do a historical search on how much was downloaded both in total files or data size. Alternatively if you don't want to run Splunk then you could code your scripts that…

Use a better product if you're able to move off Serv-U. Multi threaded applications have been around a long time now and the Solarwinds developers most likely haven't moved with the times. It's possible the Linux version is more CPU efficient but that will need an answer from them as I can't use my thousands of users a…

Have you got a HTTP and/or HTTPS listener turned on at the Domain Level under "Domain Details -> Listener"? This will be required for your MFT to respond to HTTP and HTTPS. You're also not going to get external IP information in your logs unless your Load Balancer is forwarding X-Forward-For (XFF) headers and you have this…

I don't think you will find that it is supported. We pushed Solarwinds to get some SHA2 stuff added to 15.1.6. If you tighten up your available SSH security you can only really get as far as this; Encryption Algorithms aes256-ctrAES with 256-bit key in CTR mode Secureaes256-cbcAES with 256-bit key in CBC mode CBC mode is…

Maybe run a scripting job that sync's your FTP site with a file server. Use the features of the file server to manage the open files and send updated ones back to the FTP server when updated.

If you can successfully log in using FTP and pass authentication but unable to get a directory listing as well as not being able to PUT and GET files then you need to check that the FTP passive port for the data channel has been allowed via any firewalls in place.

Check the service account running the Serv-U File Server services in the Windows Services has the rights to be able to read/write to the folder you have used as the "Domain Home Directory" under the Domain Details screen. Failing that, check the Directory Access rules are not pointing to the old location and not pointing…

Go to your Serv-U Tray Icon down on the bottom right of your screen. If you don't see it then start your local Serv-U management console from the start menu button an it should then show up. Right click on it and you will get a few options on stopping sessions.

Are you using SQL to manage your user accounts? If so, it gets very ugly once each user collection exceeds around 100 users. Try splitting off your userlist into smaller sized user collections (organizations) so the users within don't go over 100 in each. Also use the management console over HTTPS from another machine.…

Your vbscript is just creating batch files that can use FTP from the built in MSDOS FTP client. MSDOS does not do SFTP from the command line so this will not be a solution for you if you are wanting to use SFTP. I recommend you research "WinSCP Automation" on Google and use either the built in scripting capabilities or…

I have some users of my MFT server doing this by using Curl and HTTP. But you've answered your question yourself, SFTP scripted is the way to go and using something like WinSCP works a treat. If you're looking to apply any logic to your transmissions then go deeper with the .Net integration that WinSCP has. If it is just…

* The Certificate will be delivered most likely in a PFX file format. This contains the certificate and private key. Serv-U needs to use this private key as part of it's SSL/TLS configuration. Locate the file from the certificate provider. * First step will be extracting the private key from the PFX file. This requires the…

I have the same issue. The official response from Serv-U is to limit the number of users in each collection to 100 users. If you capture the background SQL commands going on when you enumerate your users you will see why it is so slow. As we can't just dump a few thousand paying clients here we just try and do what we want…

Google WinSCP automation and implement this in Powershell.

I did that upgrade on 32 hosts but only went to 15.1.5. I've not needed to turn on half of them yet as they are powered down at the DR site but from the 16 live ones we haven't hit any snags. None of them experienced a problem although you need to have your license keys ready to re-apply. If you're using a database for…

What happens if you wait 10 seconds? I find it sometimes takes 10-15 seconds before hitting start the service works. If that is still failing then you need to check your config. Things like logging locations, where keys and certs are saved and if you're using a DB for user authentication it needs to be reachable. The…