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Can Import Agent import from an SFTP location?

Import Agent

Updated January 19, 2018

asked on January 16, 2018

We currently have an SFTP location that I have been requested to import very large zip files from on a regular basis. Can this be done through Import Agent, or is there no way to authenticate through there. This is the first time I have used it, and I did see where I could specify username and password but am thinking that is for the repository import.

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replied on January 16, 2018

I have never tried it, but you may be able to map the SFTP location as a network drive on the Import Agent Server and then provide that location to Import Agent.

I believe it prompts you for credentials before mapping. In other words Import Agent wouldn't be the one providing the credentials - it would piggyback on the ones provided to the operating system.

Again though I have never tried this with SFTP so no guarantees. :)

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replied on January 19, 2018 • Show version history

Ok so they wanted to stick with the SFTP site, and what I ended up doing was using a free software program called WinSCP. It works great for manual moving of files, but since I wanted it automated, I downloaded that, made a script file in notepad and placed in on the repository server, and then created a small batch file that would call the script. The small batch file I call with the Windows Task Scheduler each morning on the repository server, which in turn opens the WinSCP program and runs the script file, and transfers any new files into the Laserfiche location I specified. Since they are on a secure site, and only getting dropped in there in the middle of the night, the folder doesn't need constant monitoring and a daily setting in Task Scheduler was enough to do the trick.

Rick

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replied on January 17, 2018

That was a brilliant suggestion, Ege! It does allow me to put in an ftp location, but when I try to put in an sftp location it says it is not valid, I think it's an issue of windows not supporting it, at least in our version, I don't know about other versions. Since import agent will be plucking those files out as soon as they go in, I am trying to get the ok to make it a share instead of an SFTP location, or just an ftp site. I wasn't sure about the ftp site either, but the mapping process you showed above does work for that, so that's how I will do it if it ends up being ftp. Thanks again!

Rick

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