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  • Author: Appian Corporation
  • Type: Plug-in (Function & Smart Service)
  • Support: This is an Appian supported plug-in. To the extent that this plug-in does not conform to its documentation, please submit a ticket to Appian Technical Support. Appian does not support customer-created customizations or outdated versions of the plug-in.
  • Industry: All Industries
  • Compatible Version(s): 25.2
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  • Cost: Free - Appian Supported
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SFTP Functions

Overview

Contains multiple Smart Services for interacting with a remote file server via SFTP, FTP, or SCP.  Using these services, an Appian application can be configured to send and receive files, folders, and metadata in a process.  Features support for zlib compression.

Key Features & Functionality

Smart Services included:

  • SFTP:
    • Send File Over SFTP
    • Receive File Over SFTP
    • Get Remote Folder Contents Over SFTP
    • Create Folder Over SFTP
    • Remove File Over SFTP
    • Receive Files In Folder Over
    • SFTP Rename File Over SFTP
  • SCP:
    • Send File Over SCP
    • Receive File Over SCP
  • FTP:
    • Send File Over FTP
    • Receive File Over FTP
    • Get Remote Folder Contents Over FTP
    • Receive Files In Folder Over FTP
    • Remove File Over FTP
    • Rename File Over FTP
  • FTPS
    • Get Remote Folder Contents Over FTPS
    • Receive File Over FTPS
    • Receive Files In Folder Over FTPS
    • Send File Over FTPS

Functions:

  • getfoldercontentsoverftp
  • getfoldercontentsoverftps
  • getfoldercontentsoversftp
  • All smart services in the package use Secure Credentials Store.
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  • We are using this plugin for all of our SFTP processes.  Within our process model if the SFTP node is not able to connect to the SFTP server we have a timeout node set to 13 minutes.  Once the timeout is hit, we send a notification to the admins and terminate the process model.  Over the weekend we had an issue with as SFTP that was not able to connect, therefore the process model was terminated.  It appears when this happens the SFTP node does not terminate and causes long running nodes and memory issues with the Appian servers, which has cause the fix to be restarting the servers.

    Is there a fix in process to terminate the connection to the SFTP server if the process model is terminated? And/or is there a workaround so that we won't need to restart the servers when we have this issue.  We have this running in our production environment as well.

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  • We are using this plugin for all of our SFTP processes.  Within our process model if the SFTP node is not able to connect to the SFTP server we have a timeout node set to 13 minutes.  Once the timeout is hit, we send a notification to the admins and terminate the process model.  Over the weekend we had an issue with as SFTP that was not able to connect, therefore the process model was terminated.  It appears when this happens the SFTP node does not terminate and causes long running nodes and memory issues with the Appian servers, which has cause the fix to be restarting the servers.

    Is there a fix in process to terminate the connection to the SFTP server if the process model is terminated? And/or is there a workaround so that we won't need to restart the servers when we have this issue.  We have this running in our production environment as well.

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