The SSIS FTP Connection Manager establishes a connection with the File Transfer Protocol server or FTP Server. This Connection Manager allows us to access the existing remote files and folders and creates New files and folders at run time in SQL Server Integration Services.
Configuring SSIS FTP Connection Manager
This example shows how to create or configure SSIS FTP Connection Manager. Once you create a new Project under SSIS, we have three folders: If you look at the Solution Explorer. For now, let’s concentrate on the Connection Managers Folder.
Right-click on the Connection Managers folder present in the solution explorer and select the New Connection Manager option from the context menu.
When you click on the New Connection Manager option, an Add Connection Manager window form will open to select the connections managers from its list.
Here, we selected the SSIS FTP Connection Manager from the available list. Once we chose the FTP connection manager, another window form called FTP Connection Manager Editor opened to configure the connection.
The SSIS FTP Connection Manager provides the following options:
- Server Name: Please specify the Company FTP server name here. For example, it will be something like ftp.tutorialgateway.org
- Server Port: Please specify the Port number here. The client can access your FTP server using this available port (which should be Open). By default, it will be 21
- User Name: Please provide the user name to access the FTP Server. By default, you can use the anonymous, but in real-time, Your organization will provide these credentials or use the credentials you specified while configuring your FTP server.
- Password: Please provide the password to access the FTP Server.
- Use passive mode: If you uncheck this option (the default), FTP Connection Manager will use Active mode; otherwise, Passive mode.
- Retries: Please provide the number of retries. If it reaches maximum retries, the Connection will Fail.
- Test Connection: Click on this button to check whether our connection is successful or not.
NOTE: The server will initiate the connection if the connection is using active mode. Otherwise (Passive Mode), the Client has to start the connection.
From the above screenshot, you can observe that we are using the localhost (Our local PC) as an FTP Server and a custom port number. In real-time, you have to select the Company’s FTP Server and provide the valid credentials given by your Admin person.
Let us test our established connection by clicking the Test Connection button. From the below screenshot, you can observe that Our credentials are Valid.
Click the OK button to finish configuring the SSIS FTP Connection Manager.
From the above screenshot, you can observe that we successfully created SSIS FTP Connection Manager.
