Source—Storage Cloud Service

Use the Source tab to configure a new source or edit an existing source. How? The tab content depends on the source type. Settings for sources of type Storage Cloud Service are listed here.

The Storage Cloud Service Source tab is arranged in the following sections:

General Information and Actions

The General Actions and Properties section of the Storage Cloud Service Source tab allows you to save, deploy, and change general properties for the source.

Element Description

Save

Saves the source without deploying it. Remember to save before closing this tab.

Deploy/Deployed

Deploys and activates the source. You must save the source before you can deploy it. You must re-save before you can redeploy. The configuration must be valid or deployment fails.

The Deploy Source dialog appears, prompting you for an optional comment. Impacted transfers are listed. Click the Deploy or Cancel button in the dialog.

The Deploy action in the tab is grayed with a green check to show successful deployment.

To view information about deployed artifacts, click the Show Deployment Details button on the Artifacts Search tab, or view the Deployments tab on the Monitoring page.

Revert

Reverts all changes since the last save.

General Information

Click the arrow to the left to display read-only source information, including name, last user to update, last update date and time, and last deployment date and time.

Description

Allows you to add or edit the artifact description. This description is for all deployments of the artifact and is visible in the Artifacts Search tab.

The Deploy dialog also allows you to enter a description, which is specific to a particular deployment label and is visible in the Deployments tab on the Monitoring page.

Location

Click the arrow to the left to display information about the payload location to be transferred.

Element Description

Content Folder

Specifies the path from which payloads are transferred.

Include Content in Subfolder

Specifies that payloads in subfolders are also transferred if checked.

Source Properties

Click the arrow to the left to display source properties.

Element Description

User Name

Specifies the user having read or read and write access to the Storage Cloud Service and container.

Password

Specifies the user password.

Confirm Password

Confirms the user password.

Service URL

Specifies the URL from which source payloads are transferred.

Service Name

Specifies the Storage Cloud Service name with identity domain.

Container Name

Specifies the name of the cloud storage container containing the payload.

Source Schedule

Click the arrow to the left to display information about when the source is checked for payloads to be transferred. Source schedule settings affect all transfers that use the source.

Element Description

Event

Specifies the Event check box, if enabled, allows you to execute transfers through a SOAP/REST service.

Security

Security enabled implies that protection is valid for Administrators and any other users selected. This applies to SOAP\REST service only.

Add Users, Groups, and Roles

Adds users, groups, and roles to the list of who can access SOAP/REST service only. For more information, see Add Users, Groups, and Roles.

Add schedule

Specifies when to poll the source for new payloads. For more information, see Scheduler. Applies only to simple schedule

Actions

Click the arrow to the left to display source processing actions, which affect all transfers that use the source.

Element Description

Add processing actions

Allows you to compress, decompress, encrypt, decrypt, callouts (custom action) or new line conversion transferred files. For more information, see Pre-Processing Actions.

Advanced Properties

The Advanced Properties section of the Storage Cloud Service Source tab allows you change advanced source properties.

Element Description

Content

Click the Content tab to display advanced properties related to the source content.

Optional filtering of source content specified as

Specifies how the filter string is interpreted: Wildcard (the default) or Regular Expression.

If you selected Wildcard, use * as a wildcard. For example, *.xml specifies that XML files are transferred. To specify text or XML files, you can use *.(xml|XML|txt|TXT). For example, File = "TXT-20100505-XXXX.txt" where XXXX can be any four successive digits. Regexp Filter expression = "XT-20100505-\\d{4}\\.txt"

For more information about regular expressions, see The Java Tutorials: Regular Expressions.

Include Files

Includes files in the transfer. You can use * as a wildcard. For example, *.xml specifies that XML files are transferred. If Include Files is not specified, all files are included unless excluded by Exclude Files, which takes precedence.

Transfers can specify files to include using filters. For more information, see Transfer. Exclude Files and Include Files are executed before transfer filters. Coordinate your sources and transfers accordingly.

Exclude Files

Excludes files from the transfer. You can use * as a wildcard. For example, *.xml specifies that XML files are not transferred. If Exclude Files is not specified, no files are excluded.

Transfers can specify files to include using filters. For more information, see Transfer. Exclude Files and Include Files are executed before transfer filters. Coordinate your sources and transfers accordingly.

Performance Attributes

Click the Performance Attributes tab to display advanced properties related to performance.

Max Raise Size

Specifies the maximum number of payloads transferred per each Polling Interval cycle.

Operation

Click the Operation tab to display advanced properties related to payload operations.

Action Type

Specifies the action taken after payloads from this source are transferred: None and Delete.

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