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UFTP eliminates the Universal Agent's reliance on 3rd-party FTP clients, which existed prior to the 6.4.0.0 release. Results from these external clients were often unpredictable, and handling variations required frequent Universal Agent changes. UFTP introduces a measure of stability and predictability along with a clean interface between it and the Universal Agent server (UAGSRV).
While UFTP can run directly from the command line, it is frequently executed via File Transfer tasks defined in the Universal Controller. Starting with Universal Agent 6.4.0.0, FTP File Monitor tasks and File Transfer tasks (excluding those with a type of UDM) execute UFTP.
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