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Defining Secure FTP Jobs

You can define a Secure FTP (SFTP_JOB) job to transfer binary files using the Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP). The SFTP protocol supports wildcard transfers, so you can upload multiple files to a remote computer or download multiple files to the agent computer.

Note: To run these jobs, your system requires CA WA Agent for UNIX, Linux, Windows, or i5/OS.

Required Statements

To define a Secure FTP job, you must specify the following statements:

• AGENT
• LOCALNAME
• REMOTEDIR
• SERVERADDR
• TRANSFERDIRECTION
• USER

Optional Statements

You can specify the following optional statements for a Secure FTP job:

• JOBCLASS
• LOCALUSER
• REMOTENAME

  Note: The REMOTENAME statement is required if the LOCALNAME statement does not contain a wildcard.

• SERVERPORT
• TARGETOSTYPE

Example: Upload a File Using the Secure File Transfer Protocol

This example uploads the logs.tar file to the /u/tmp directory on the hpsupport server. The job uses the Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP).

AGENT WINAGENT
TRANSFERDIRECTION UPLOAD
SERVERADDR hpsupport
REMOTEDIR /u/tmp
REMOTENAME logs.tar
LOCALNAME D:\temp\logs.tar
USER causer

Example: Upload Multiple Files Using the Secure File Transfer Protocol

This example uploads the files in the c:\temp\upload directory to the /u1/build/uploaded directory on the aixunix server. The job uses the Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP). Since the LOCALNAME statement contains a wildcard, the REMOTENAME statement is not specified.

AGENT WINAGENT
SERVERADDR aixunix
TRANSFERDIRECTION UPLOAD
USER causer
REMOTEDIR /u1/build/uploaded
LOCALNAME c:\temp\upload\*