SFTP Transport Type

In short, SFTP (Secure File Transfer Protocol) allows secure file transferring. It is a secure version of FTP, in that it uses SSH (Secure Shell) to encrypt the data stream.

There are three sections when configuring SFTP, which are described in detail below.

Sftp Settings

Destination Folder

Destination SFTP folder, a folder on the SFTP-server where the files are delivered.

Temp. Folder

Temporary SFTP folder. Sometimes there is a temp-folder on the SFTP-server that the connection can use. It helps to minimize the amount of time where the connection locks the file-system.

Before Put

FTP command to execute before writing the file.

After Put

FTP command to execute after writing the file.

These settings always have to be filled out.

Connection Settings

Host

Hostname or IP address of SFTP server.

Port

SFTP server port number.

Username 

SFTP account username.

Password

SFTP account password. (click ‘Show’ to reveal the password - user setup)

Proxy Settings

These fields are very rarely used and will probably be deprecated in Link.

Monitoring

For certain transport types, it is possible to set up a corresponding Monitor item directly from this page. Read more in Embedded monitor item types.

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After clicking "Add monitor", you will be presented with all relevant settings for a new monitor item.

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When this information has been filled out and you press "Save" on the location, a monitor item is created and you can see it in the Monitor status page and in the Outgoing locations list.