From the Automation Center navigation pane, select Tasks > Remote File Monitor Tasks. The Remote File Monitor Tasks list displays a list of all currently defined Remote File Monitor tasks.
 
To the right of the list, Remote File Monitor Task Details for a new Remote File Monitor task displays.
 

Enter/select Details for a new Remote File Monitor task, using the field descriptions below as a guide.

• Required fields display an asterisk ( * ) after the field name.

• Default values for fields, if available, display automatically.

To display more of the Details fields on the screen, you can either:

• Use the scroll bar.

• Temporarily hide the list above the Details.

• Click the 

   button above the list to display a pop-up version of the Details.

Click the 

This section contains general information about the task.

Name

Version

Description

Member of Business Services

Resolve Name Immediately

Time Zone Preference

Hold on Start

Hold Reason

Virtual Resource Priority

Mutually Exclusive With Self

Simulate 

This section contains assorted detailed information about the Agent / Agent Cluster selected for this task.

This section contains assorted detailed information about the task.

If Wait until Satisfied is enabled: Frequency, in seconds, in which the Remote File Monitor will check to see if the file exists or is missing.

If Wait until Satisfied is enabled: Maximum number of times that the Remote File Monitor will check to see if the file exists or is missing.

If Wait until Satisfied is enabled: Period of time, in seconds, during which the file has not changed.
 
For a Remote File Monitor task, a file's stability depends on its size. If the file size displayed in the FTP/SFTP output does not change during the specified number of seconds, the file is considered stable. In order for the task to reliably monitor the file's stability, the task must display a file's size in a well-known location. This means that the file list returned in the output must be in Unix long-listing format, as follows:
 

 
The task will only find the size if it is in the 5th column (for example, 12345 in the example above).
 
The default file list format varies across different FTP client/server implementations, but most support additional commands that can force the output to the required format. The Additional FTP Commands field is provided to insert those statements into the FTP script that the file monitor task executes.

Transfer Mode

Verify Host Name

Authenticate Peer

Remote Server

Name or IP address of the remote server. This machine may or may not be the same as the Universal Agent machine.
 
You also can specify a non-standard FTP, SFTP, FTPS, or FTPES port: port number separated from the host name with a colon: "some.server.com:2222".

FTP Credentials Variable

Path and file name on the remote server.
 

Use Regular Expression

Enables the use of a regular expression in the Remote Filename field.

Job  Card (z/OS only)

Result Processing Details 

Specifies whether you want the Controller to automatically retrieve any output from the job and attach it to the task instance record.

• None
  Do not attach any output to the task instance record.

• Standard Output
  Attach all standard output.

• Standard Error
  Attach standard error output.

• Standard Output/Error
  Attach all standard output and standard error output.

Wait for Output

If  Automatic Output Retrieval = Standard Output, Standard Error, or Standard Output/Error, and Failure Only is not enabled (checked); Specification that the task should wait for the requested output before completing.

Failure Only

If  Automatic Output Retrieval  = Standard Output, Standard Error, or Standard Output/Error, and Wait For Output is not enabled (checked); Indication for whether output should be retrieved on task failure only.

Start Line

If  Automatic Output Retrieval  = Standard Output, Standard Error, or Standard Output/Error; Instructs the Controller to retrieve data beginning at the line indicated.

• If a Start Line value is not specified, the default is 1.

• If the Start Line value is -1, data will be retrieved starting at the end of the file.

Number of Lines

If  Automatic Output Retrieval  = Standard Output, Standard Error, or Standard Output/Error; Allows you to limit the retrieved data to the number of lines specified. If a Number of Lines value is not specified, the default is the value of the Retrieve Output Default Number Of Lines Universal Controller system property.

Scan Text

If  Automatic Output Retrieval  = Standard Output, Standard Error, or Standard Output/Error; Regex pattern that the Controller will search for a match for in STDOUT/STDERR. The Controller will include the Number of Lines above and below the first line matched.
 
if the Regex pattern is not found, the following message is returned: OPSWISE WARNING - Scan text string not found.

This section contains specifications for waiting to start and/or delaying on start the task.

This section contains time-related specifications for the task.

This section contains Critical Path-related specifications for the task.

This section contains Execution Restriction specifications for the task if it is within a Workflow.

This section contains time-related statistics for task instances of the task.

First Execution