Kaspersky Unified Monitoring and Analysis Platform

Ftp type

The ftp type is used to receive data using the File Transfer Protocol. It is available for Windows and Linux Agents.

Available settings:

• Basic settings tab:
  • Name (required)—a unique name for this type of resource. Must contain from 1 to 128 Unicode characters.
  • Tenant (required)—name of the tenant that owns the resource.
  • Type (required)—connector type.
  • URL (required)—actual URL of the file or file mask beginning with 'ftp://'. For a file mask, you can use * ? [...].

    File mask templates

    Masks:

    • '*'—matches any sequence of characters.
    • '[' [ '^' ] { range of characters } ']'—class of characters (should not be left blank).
    • '?'—matches any single character.
    • c—matches the c character (c != '*', '?', '\\', '[').
    • '\\' c—matches the c character.

    Ranges of characters:

    • c—matches the c character (c != '\\', '-', ']').
    • '\\' c—matches the c character.
    • lo '-' hi—matches the c character for lo <= c <= hi.

    Examples:

    • /var/log/*som?[1-9].log
    • /mnt/dns_logs/*/dns.log
    • /mnt/proxy/access*.log

    If the URL does not include the FTP server port, port 21 is inserted.

  • Description—up to 256 Unicode characters describing the resource.
• Advanced settings tab:
  • Character encoding setting specifies character encoding. The default value is UTF-8.
  • Compression—you can use Snappy compression. By default, compression is disabled.
  • Debug—a drop-down list where you can specify whether resource logging should be enabled. By default it is Disabled.