Create study File Watchers

For each study, create a study File Watcher. It watches the folder you specify here for uploaded data files and loads the data into Oracle DMW.

Prerequisites

Specify the watched folder locations in a system profile. See Register root folders for File Watcher watched folders.

If you want to archive (not delete) loaded data files, specify the archive folder location. See Register root folders for File Watcher archive folders.

1. Click Navigation from the navigation bar and then click Administration.
2. Click the File Watcher tab.
3. Click the Add Icon.
4. Study: Select the name of the study from the drop-down list. The list includes studies with no existing study File Watcher.
5. Study Folder Name: Enter a valid UNIX case-sensitive directory name with no underscores (_) to be used as the final directory of the watched folder path after each root folder. The Study folder name must be unique within the DMW instance and you will receive an error if the name you enter is already in use.
   If you have enabled archiving and specified locations for archiving files, it creates study-specific archive folders as well as File Watcher folders.
6. Delete Files After: To permanently delete a file, enter the number of days after the load date to delete it.
   To archive the files instead of deleting them, enter a higher number here than in the archiving profile value. (See Register root folders for File Watcher archive folders.)
7. Click OK. The system creates actual folders for the study on the file system.

Next: Select a distributed processing (DP) server for the study File Watcher.