Description:

Fetches the content of a file from a remote SFTP server and overwrites the contents of an incoming FlowFile with the content of the remote file.

Tags:

ftp, get, retrieve, files, fetch, remote, ingest, source, input

Properties:

In the list below, the names of required properties appear in bold. Any other properties (not in bold) are considered optional. The table also indicates any default values, and whether a property supports the Expression Language Guide, and whether a property is considered “sensitive”, meaning that its value will be encrypted. Before entering a value in a sensitive property, ensure that the nifi.properties file has an entry for the property nifi.sensitive.props.key.

Name	Default Value	Allowable Values	Description
Hostname			The fully-qualified hostname or IP address of the host to fetch the data from Supports Expression Language: true
Port	21		The port to connect to on the remote host to fetch the data from Supports Expression Language: true
Username			Username Supports Expression Language: true
Password			Password for the user account Sensitive Property: true Supports Expression Language: true
Remote File			The fully qualified filename on the remote system Supports Expression Language: true
Completion Strategy	None	* None * Move * Delete	Specifies what to do with the original file on the server once it has been pulled into NiFi. If the Completion Strategy fails, a warning will be logged but the data will still be transferred.
Move Destination Directory			The directory on the remote server to the move the original file to once it has been ingested into NiFi. This property is ignored unless the Completion Strategy is set to "Move File". The specified directory must already exist on the remote system, or the rename will fail. Supports Expression Language: true
Connection Timeout	30 sec		Amount of time to wait before timing out while creating a connection
Data Timeout	30 sec		When transferring a file between the local and remote system, this value specifies how long is allowed to elapse without any data being transferred between systems
Use Compression	false	* true * false	Indicates whether or not ZLIB compression should be used when transferring files
Connection Mode	Passive	* Active * Passive	The FTP Connection Mode
Transfer Mode	Binary	* Binary * ASCII	The FTP Transfer Mode
Proxy Type	DIRECT	* DIRECT * HTTP * SOCKS	Proxy type used for file transfers
Proxy Host			The fully qualified hostname or IP address of the proxy server
Proxy Port			The port of the proxy server
Http Proxy Username			Http Proxy Username
Http Proxy Password			Http Proxy Password Sensitive Property: true

Relationships:

Name	Description
success	All FlowFiles that are received are routed to success
comms.failure	Any FlowFile that could not be fetched from the remote server due to a communications failure will be transferred to this Relationship.
not.found	Any FlowFile for which we receive a 'Not Found' message from the remote server will be transferred to this Relationship.
permission.denied	Any FlowFile that could not be fetched from the remote server due to insufficient permissions will be transferred to this Relationship.

Reads Attributes:

None specified.

Writes Attributes:

Name	Description
ftp.remote.host	The hostname or IP address from which the file was pulled
ftp.remote.port	The port that was used to communicate with the remote FTP server
ftp.remote.filename	The name of the remote file that was pulled
filename	The filename is updated to point to the filename fo the remote file
path	If the Remote File contains a directory name, that directory name will be added to the FlowFile using the 'path' attribute

State management:

This component does not store state.

Restricted:

This component is not restricted.