SFTP Connection Details

To establish the connection successfully, you must configure the SFTP instance.

The following table gives the details of the SFTP Connector dialog.

Field Required Description
Connection Name Yes Unique name for the SFTP connector. This name is displayed in the dropdown selection box for each activity.
Description No Brief description of the SFTP connection.
Host Yes The host name or IP address of the SFTP server.
Port Yes The port number of the SFTP server. For SFTP connections, '22' is the default, when no value is specified in this field.
Username Yes Username for connecting to your SFTP server.
Password Yes Password for connecting to your SFTP server. This field is visible when Public Key Authentication is set to false.

Public Key Authentication

Yes

Set this field to true to specify the private key, when using private key supported authentication.

When you set this field to true, it displays the Private Key and Private Key Password fields.

Private Key Yes The private key to authenticate your login.
Private Key Password No The password of the private key.
Strict HostKey Check Yes

When you set this field to true, it connects only to known hosts with valid host keys that are stored in the known host file. Host keys not listed in the known host list are rejected. Strict HostKey Check verifies the incoming host key against the keys in the known hosts list. If the host key does not match an existing known host entry for the remote server, the connection is rejected. When you set this field to false, the client does not verify the server's host key entry into the known host file while establishing the connection.

Note:

This option can be selected with Password authentication, or Public Key Authentication methods.
Known Host File Yes

Contains the public keys with the corresponding Host IP address for all hosts with which the client can communicate. This field is available only when Strict HostKey Check is set to true.

Configure the path of the known host file in this field.

For more information, see the SFTP documentation.