OIC Integration using FTP Adapter created locally in WINDOWS 10, Local Machine

In this POST, I will provide detailed steps on how to use a FTP adapter in OIC using local FTP created in WINDOWS 10 machine  

Steps to create a scheduled integration in OIC using FTP adapter using local WINDOWS FTP. You can go through these links. 

Create FTP server using WINDOWS 10 locally: here  
Why is an ICS Agent needed: here 

•             Login to OIC àIntegrationàDesigneràAgentsàCreate Agent Group (Give below New Agent Group -Information)

Agent Group Name	DhireshWinLocalAgentGroup
Agent Type	Connectivity Agent
Description	POC purpose

• Download Connectivity Agent. Save it to C:\OIC\oicAgent\
  

C:\Windows\system32>cd C:\OIC\oicAgent\oic_connectivity_agent C:\OIC\oicAgent\oic_connectivity_agent>java -jar C:\OIC\oicAgent\oic_connectivity_agent\connectivityagent.jar Enter your OIC username : OICUserName Enter password for username : OICPassword No Proxy Configuration Detected Checking for trusted certificates ... Making call to check OIC Version ... Making call to check Agent group availability ... Updating Agent with configuration details ... Making call to register new agent instance ... Making call for getting agent app id & keys... Done with Agent installation & configuration... Starting Agent for message processing. Agent started successfully...Now available for new messages...

•            Ensure that the agent is running - OIC àIntegrationàMonitoringàAgentsàMonitor Agents

•          Create a FTP Connection : OIC HomeàIntegrationàDesigneràConnectionàCreate New ConnectionàSelect Adapter FTP and select create -

Name	DHIRESH_LOCAL_FTP
Role	Trigger and Invoke
Description	POC purpose

Once Connection is created. Provide the below details –

FTP Server Host Address	Local IPv4 address identified from Ipconfig
FTP Server Port	21
SFTP Connection	No
Security Policy	FTP Server Access Policy
User Name	Windows Login Id (usually Hotmail id)
Password	Windows password
Agent Group	DhireshWinLocalAgentGroup (as created in step1)

            Save and test the connection.

•         Create a new Scheduled Integration—OIC HomeàIntegrationàDesigneràIntegrationàCreate àScheduled Orchestration. I gave the integration name as DHIRESH_LOCAL_FTP

                 Edit the schedule parameters and add below parameter name and ensure these two directories are present in local ftp

fileName	test.txt
inputDirectory	/ftpLocalOIC/readDirectory
outputDirectory	/ftpLocalOIC/moveDirectory

            Drag the FTP adapter created above over + sign
            Details for Configuring the FTP Adapter

What do you want to call the endpoint	Move File
Select Operation	Move a File
Directory Path	/ftpLocalOIC/readDirectory
File Name	test.txt
Target Directory Path	/ftpLocalOIC/moveDirectory
Target File Name	newtest.txt

       

            Save and then ad the 3 variables. Save the integration. Add filename for tracking. Finally Activate the integration

             Activate the integration. Before Submitting the integration -

      

           Submit the integration. 

       

       

        

           You can  see after submitting the scheduled integration the file has moved from one Windows directory to another locally om your machine.