Overview

The FTP Event Monitor is used to make sure your FTP sites are up and running. While other monitoring solutions will sometimes just check if something is listening on port 22, FrameFlow can log in and perform file transfer requests to verify that your FTP servers are fully functional.

Use Cases

• Making sure FTP servers are operational
• Detecting FTP servers with anonymous access enabled
• Verifying that selected files are present on FTP servers

Monitoring Options

This event monitor provides the following options:

Alert with [Info/Warning/Error/Critical] if the FTP server is unreachable

Use this option to get alerts if the DNS server could not be contacted.

Include server responses in the notification text

With this option selected all alerts and notifications will include the responses that the FTP server returned during connection and log in.

Alert with [Info/Warning/Error/Critical] if anonymous access is enabled

Anonymous access is best for public-facing FTP servers where your goal is to make large files and data available to anyone. Other FTP servers are used to host internal corporate data and will typically require a user name and password to log in. Use this option to get alerts if an FTP server has anonymous access enabled.

Alert with [Info/Warning/Error/Critical] if anonymous access is disabled

Use this option to get alerts if anonymous access is disabled on your web server. To test this, the FTP event monitor will log in using the user name "anonymous" and the password "anonymous@anonymous.com".

Alert with [Info/Warning/Error/Critical] if login fails for a specified user name

Use this option to test that a specific user name and password combination can be used to log into the FTP server.

Alert with [Info/Warning/Error/Critical] if the file [file path] exists

Use this option to verify that a specified file is present on the FTP server.

Alert with [Info/Warning/Error/Critical] if the file [file path] does not exist

With this option enabled the event monitor will alert you if the file you specify is not present.

Wait at most [#] ms for server responses

Specify the time that the event monitor will wait for each FTP response. In most cases, the default value is the best value to use.

Authentication and Security

If the option to log in with a specified username is selected, you must specify the username and password you want to use. Otherwise, authentication is not required.

Protocols

Data Points

This event monitor generates the following data points:

Data Point	Description
Registry Value	The value from the registry.

Sample Output

Tutorial

To view the tutorial for this event monitor, click here.