Documentation forServer & Application Monitor
Monitoring your applications and environment is a key capability of SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted (formerly Hybrid Cloud Observability) and is available in the Essentials edition. Server & Application Monitor (SAM) is also available in a standalone module.

Windows 2016 FTP service

This SAM template assesses the status and overall of services and performance of a Microsoft Windows 2016 FTP service.

Prerequisites

WMI access to the target server.

Credentials

Windows Administrator on the target server.

Component monitors

Click here for an overview about SAM application monitor templates and component monitors. SAM API Poller templates are also available.

You should manually enter thresholds for component monitors according to your requirements.

Microsoft FTP Service

This monitor returns CPU and memory usage for the Microsoft FTP Service, which enables this server to be a File Transfer Protocol (FTP) server. If this service is stopped, the server cannot function as an FTP server. If this service is disabled, any services that explicitly depend on it will fail to start.

FTP User Experience Monitor

This component monitor tests the ability of an FTP server to accept an incoming session, process the user login, and then transmit the specified file to the SolarWinds Platform server. After receiving the file, SAM performs a file integrity test comparing the MD5 checksum of the downloaded file against a previously generated checksum. If the checksums match, the component monitor reports its status as up.

This monitor should be properly configured before using it on the target FTP server. By default this monitor is disabled.

Bytes Received/sec

This monitor returns the number of bytes received per second by the FTP service.

Bytes Sent/sec

This monitor returns the number of bytes sent per second by the FTP service.

Current Anonymous Users

This monitor returns the number of users who currently have an anonymous connection using the FTP service.

Current Connections

This monitor returns the current number of connections established with the FTP service.

Current Non-Anonymous Users

This monitor returns the number of users who currently have a non-anonymous connection using the FTP service.

Total Connection Attempts

This monitor returns the number of connections that have attempted to use the FTP service since service startup. This counter is for all instances listed.

This counter has the Count statistic as difference option enabled and will show the statistical difference from the last polling cycle.

Total Files Received

This monitor returns the total number of files received by the FTP service since service startup.

This counter has the Count statistic as difference option enabled and will show the statistical difference from the last polling cycle.

Total Files Sent

This monitor returns the total number of files sent by the FTP service since service startup.

This counter has the Count statistic as difference option enabled and will show the statistical difference from the last polling cycle.

Total Files Transferred

This monitor returns the total number of files transferred by the FTP service since service startup.

This counter has the Count statistic as difference option enabled and will show the statistical difference from the last polling cycle.