Notification Server Settings

Notification Server Settings

How to get here

This page is used to modify settings to the Notification Server.

• Notification server IP address. Enter the IP address of the Notification Server that you want WS_FTP Server to use to send notifications. If you are using Notification Server installed on the same computer as WS_FTP Server, enter 127.0.0.1.
• Port. Enter the port you want Notification Server to listen on for connections from WS_FTP Server.
• Retries. Enter the number of times you want Notification Server to attempt to send a notification. If the notification cannot be successfully sent within this number of tries, the notification is logged as failed.

Log Settings

This section is used to specify a log server and the level of detail written to the log.

• Logging level. Specify the level of detail the server provides to the enabled log servers.
  • None. No data is captured or supplied to the log server.
  • Errors Only. Only events that register as errors are logged.
  • Normal (selected by default). In addition to errors, the following events are logged: uploading, downloading, deleting and renaming a file; removing and creating a folder; user authentications; and issuing a SITE command.
  • Verbose. In addition to everything logged in Normal, the following events are logged: connecting and disconnecting; changing working directory; negotiating SSL, including cipher, type and strength; negotiating SSH, including ciphers and MACs; and any other command sent to the server.
    Warning: Verbose mode produces a large quantity of log entries and should only be used for brief periods of troubleshooting.
• Enable WS_FTP Logging. Select this option to enable logging to an Log Server.
  • Log server IP address (127.0.0.1 by default). Enter the host name or IP address of the log server.
  • Port (5151 by default). Enter the port over which the connection to the log server should be made.
• Enable Syslog. Select this option to enable logging to a syslog server.
  • Log server IP address. Enter the host name or IP address of the syslog server.
  • Port. Enter the port over which the connection to the log server should be made.