You can monitor a IIS FTP site with the Internet Information Services (IIS) Management Pack. But that\u00c2\u00a0management pack only\u00c2\u00a0monitor the FTP from the server side. I received a couple of questions how to monitor a FTP from the client side.\u00c2\u00a0You can do that with a vbscript, but if you are not that into scripting you can solve it like this:<\/p>\n
You can setup a port check. TCP Port check easy to add with the monitoring wizard under management pack templates.<\/p>\n
You can also create a FTP.EXE script that logon to your FTP server and perform a number of commands.\u00c2\u00a0ftp.exe is a built-in FTP tool in Windows. If you run it with the -s: parameter you can specify a script. You can also use the -d parameter to turn on debug and then the dump the result to a logfile with >>ftpcheck.log. That logfile you can check with a rule or monitor\u00c2\u00a0from Ops Mgr.\u00c2\u00a0Example<\/p>\n
You can run the complete command from a Timed Commands\/Execute a command rule. You can then create a Alert Generating Rules\/Event Based\/Generic Text Log (Alert) rule\u00c2\u00a0to monitor that ftp_log.log file. In this<\/a> post you can read how to setup a rule to check a\u00c2\u00a0logfile. Your ftpscript.ftp file can look like this<\/p>\n As you can see, it is normal FTP commands inside that file. If you want to only test download a file from a FTP\u00c2\u00a0and dont\u00c2\u00a0want to check the ftp_log.txt file, you can check when the downloaded file was last updated, according to this<\/a> post. You can also use this<\/a> script to search your logfile for words, and generate events.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" You can monitor a IIS FTP site with the Internet Information Services (IIS) Management Pack. But that\u00c2\u00a0management pack only\u00c2\u00a0monitor the FTP from the server side. I received a couple of questions how to monitor a FTP from the client side.\u00c2\u00a0You can do that with a vbscript, but if you are not that into scripting you … Continue reading ftp.exe -d\u00c2\u00a0-s:ftpscript.ftp >>ftp_log.log<\/code><\/p>\nopen 10.1.1.1
\nloginname
\nPassword
\nbinary
\nsend contoso-test-file.txt
\nget\u00c2\u00a0contoso-test-file.txt
\nbye<\/code><\/p>\n