FTP RTT Monitoring

Track the round-trip-time, file upload time, file download time of your FTP servers and be alerted instantly via Email/SMS/PDF/RSS.

Add a FTP RTT Monitor

1. Click Admin > Inventory > Monitors > Add Monitor.
2. Select FTP RTT Monitor in Add Monitor screen.
3. Specify the following information to add the monitor:
   • Display Name: Provide a name for the FTP RTT which you want to monitor.
   • Host Name: Specify the name of the host on which your server is hosted.
   • File Transfer Mode: Select the file transfer mode from the drop down list. The list of modes available are FTP, SFTP, FTPS(SSL), FTPS(TLS).
   • Port: Specify the port number from which you FTP server can be accessed. The default port will be set as 21.
   • Timeout: Specify the time in seconds needed to establish a connection with the host. If the connection is not established within the specified time, a "Connection Error" message will be reported.
   • Check file upload: Use the toggle button to enable or disable this option. When enabled, it checks for the upload performance via your FTP server by uploading a .txt file of size 10 KB to your FTP server.
   • Check file download: This option checks for the download performance of your FTP server where the .txt file already uploaded in the destination folder will be downloaded to our servers. If only the download option is enabled , then you need to manually upload .txt file and place it in the destination path.
     
   • Username: Specify the username of the FTP server.
   • Password: Provide a password for the FTP server.
     
     This is not a mandatory field. Site24x7 allows anonymous FTP logins.
   • Destination folder path: Specify the path of the destination folder. For monitoring/root destination path, you need to enter a valid user name and password.
   • Check frequency:  Change poll interval to check frequency.
   • Location profile: Select a location profile from the drop down list from where the FTP server will be monitored. 
     To know more, refer Location Profile.
   • Associate with Monitor Group: Select a monitor group from the drop down list to logically group your monitors.
     To learn how to create a group for your monitors, refer Monitor Groups.
     
4. Specify the following details for configuring profiles:
   • Threshold and Availability: Select a threshold profile from the drop down list or choose the default threshold set available and get notified when the resources cross the configured threshold and availability.
     To create a customized threshold profile, refer Threshold and Availability.
   • Notification Profile: Choose a notification profile from the drop down or select the default profile available. Notification profile helps to configure when and who needs to notified in case of downtime.
     Refer Notification Profile to create a customized notification profile.
   • User Groups: Select the user group that need to be alerted during a outage.
     To add multiple users in a group, see User Groups.
   • Actions: Select an action to be executed when the FTP RTT is down/trouble/up/any status change/any attribute change. The defined action gets executed when there is a state change and selected user groups are alerted.
     To automate corrective actions on failure, refer Actions.
      
5. Click Submit.