OneSight Administrator Guide

Configuring FTP Monitors
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In the Add Monitor dialog box, when you click FTP in the Monitor
Types box, settings to configure an FTP monitor appear on these
dialog box tabs:
General tab – Contains the options that you can use to create an FTP
monitor for your monitor group.
Advanced tab – Contains options that you can use to configure
advanced connection options, including use of a nonstandard port,
an account, and passive mode.
Alerts tab – Shows what action plan will be used when an alert
occurs. Options on this tab allow you to set up or modify an action
plan that responds to alerts generated by the current FTP monitor.
You can also configure how an alert will affect the monitor group’s
health. It can result in a Warning state, a Critical state, or can have
no impact on health.
Locations Tab – Specifies the Data Collector Location from which
the FTP monitor will interact with a specified FTP server.
SmartLinks Tab – Contains the options for specifying a link to
associate with a particular monitor or metric.
Attributes Tab – Contains the options for specifying which attributes
are applied to this monitor for Status page sorting.
Monitor Groups Tab – Contains the options that you can use to
specify which monitor groups the monitor is used with. This tab is
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