To access Limits, Timeouts, and Advanced properties: Click HOSTS and click the name of the UNC host.

You can filter the list.

Note: The host's properties page shows the configured settings for each property area. To view all possible settings, click Edit.

For General properties, see Windows UNC Share Field Descriptions.

UNC Host Field

Description

Limits

File count download limit

Maximum number of files that are downloaded from a source in a single task run against this host.

If the limit is exceeded, and the Advanced task setting Automatically re-run task if source download limits are encountered is set, the task is automatically rerun.

File size download limit

Maximum number of bytes that are downloaded from a source in a single task run against this host. Value of 0 means no limit.

Downloading stops after the first file that causes the number of downloaded bytes to exceed the limit.

If the limit is exceeded, and the Advanced task setting Automatically re-run task if source download limits are encountered is set, the task is automatically rerun.

Timeouts

Transfer Rescan Time

The number of seconds between directory scans to detect changes in file size or date.

The default is 0, which deactivates the feature. You can override the value in the individual task settings.

The Transfer Rescan prevents the download of incomplete files. After a file that matches the download criteria is identified, MOVEit Automation rescans the directory to detect file changes. If file changes are identified, MOVEit Automation implements one of the following options:

  • Traditional/Advanced tasks: The file is removed from the download list. This feature detects when another application is changing a file, which prevents MOVEit Automation from downloading partial files.
  • Sync Tasks: The files are rescanned until successive scans identify unchanged files. This feature identifies stable sources, which prevents tasks running multiple times to capture and synchronize changes in a directory.
Note: To prevent downloading partial files, the file status is checked to ensure that it is not locked by another process. Locked files are treated as changing.

Retry Count

Number of extra times that a transfer (get or put) is retried before MOVEit Automation no longer attempts the transfer. Default is 0 - transfer is not retried after a failure.

The value can be overridden by settings in individual tasks.

Retry Timeout

The number of seconds between retries of a transfer (get or put). Default is 30 seconds.

The value can be overridden by settings in individual tasks.

Advanced

Use Windows CopyFile API

Default is selected. MOVEit Automation uses this function to transfer files to and from UNC hosts (does not apply to synchronization tasks). Under some conditions, performance is affected, especially when transferring large files. If you experience performance problems when transferring files to/from this host, deselect this option.

Alternate Host

Secondary host to which to rollover when the primary host is not available. For example, if after the designated Retry Count, problems are encountered connecting or logging in to the primary host.

Rollover does not occur if other problems exist, such as: the directory does not exist, or there are insufficient permissions to access a file.

For a host to appear as an option in this field, you must have previously created it. The alternate host must be the same type of host as the primary host.

This field applies to the individual host. This is different from the failover feature that applies to nodes.

Delete State for Host path entries after

Number of days after which State information for this host is deleted.

Note: When this host is assigned as a task source that uses Collect Only New Files, MOVEit Automation saves file stamp information that is specific to this host and the task source's folder path and file mask. If a source's folder path and/or file mask contains a non-static macro (for example, [DD] or other date/time macros) the actual source folder path/file mask combination can potentially be different every time the task runs. This can cause the saved state information for this host to grow excessively large and without limits.

Use default state cache settings
  • Selected (default). Uses the default state cache settings that are specified in SETTINGS > System Settings > State File. For more information, see State File Settings.
  • Not selected: Specify how long to cache state information for this host.
Note: By default, MOVEit Automation keeps state file information cached in memory to achieve maximum efficiency. In some environments, this can become very memory intensive. Use the State Cache settings to remove state file information from memory after a task run, or after a specified amount of time.

Account for Daylight Savings

This host automatically changes the apparent time of existing files when Daylight Savings Time comes into effect, or reverts to Standard Time. This setting changes the following:

  • How the Collect Only New Files source option is processed.
  • The way that synchronization works.

In these situations, MOVEit Automation compensates for changes made by the host by adjusting the apparent timestamps of files by one hour. This prevents the unnecessary transfer of files that appear to be new because their apparent times have changed since they were last observed.

For example, a file is modified in January (during Standard Time) at 8:00 a.m. When Daylight Savings Time comes into effect, that file's apparent modification time changes to 9:00 a.m. If the Host adjusts timestamps is selected, MOVEit Automation internally adjusts its view of the file's time back to 8:00 a.m. for comparison purposes, and does not consider the time to be new.

Preserve File Timestamp on Upload

Enable this option to retain the original date modified timestamp of source files during transfer.

  • When enabled: The destination files will inherit the original timestamp from the source files, preserving the file's modification history.
  • When disabled (default): The destination files will be assigned a new timestamp reflecting the time of transfer.
For synchronization tasks, this setting applies as follows:
  • Unidirectional syncs: Timestamp preservation applies to the host configured on Folder B.
  • Bidirectional syncs: Timestamp preservation applies to both hosts on Folder A and Folder B.
Note: If any script in a task modifies a file, such as PGP encryption, the original timestamp will not be preserved, even if this option is enabled. The file is considered changed, and a new timestamp is applied.