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:

sftp, 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, 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	22		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
Private Key Path			The fully qualified path to the Private Key file
Private Key Passphrase			Password for the private key Sensitive Property: true
Remote File			The fully qualified filename on the remote system Supports Expression Language: true
Completion Strategy	None	* None * Move File * Delete File	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
Send Keep Alive On Timeout	true	* true * false	Indicates whether or not to send a single Keep Alive message when SSH socket times out
Host Key File			If supplied, the given file will be used as the Host Key; otherwise, no use host key file will be used
Strict Host Key Checking	false	* true * false	Indicates whether or not strict enforcement of hosts keys should be applied
Use Compression	false	* true * false	Indicates whether or not ZLIB compression should be used when transferring files

Relationships:

Name	Description
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.
comms.failure	Any FlowFile that could not be fetched from the remote server due to a communications failure will be transferred to this Relationship.
success	All FlowFiles that are received are routed to success

Reads Attributes:

None specified.

Writes Attributes:

Name	Description
sftp.remote.host	The hostname or IP address from which the file was pulled
sftp.remote.port	The port that was used to communicate with the remote SFTP server
sftp.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

See Also:

GetSFTP,PutSFTP,GetFTP,PutFTP