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title: FTP/SFTP
description: "##### **Configuration Requirements** - Customer will need to have the **SFTP folder** available on their side. - Customer needs to provide a**User ID** and **Password** so SecurEnds can configure the tool. - Customer will need to go into the SecurEnds…"
url: "https://se-stage.securends.com/documentation/ftp-sftp/"
updated: "2022-03-16"
category: Connectors / Flex Connectors
---

# FTP/SFTP

##### **Configuration Requirements**

- Customer will need to have the **SFTP folder** available on their side.
- Customer needs to provide a**User ID** and **Password** so SecurEnds can configure the tool.
- Customer will need to go into the SecurEnds tool and **update the SFTP credentials** if the customer have a security policy which requires password rotation every X days.
- Customer will need to **maintain a static file name** for the file placed in the SFTP folder.

##### **App Creation in SecurEnds Tool**

- In the Admin Console, go to **Applications**.
- Click the **Add** button next to it to begin configuration.

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##### **Setup Application**

- Select Data Ingestion method as **Flex Connector**.
- Enter application **Name**.
- Enter the **Application** **Owner** email information.
- **Agent **is software that needs to be installed on your on premise environment to pull data from applications such as Active Directory, Database and Custom Applications.
  - Select **Yes **if you have an Agent Software installed
  - Select **No** if you don’t have any agent software installed
- Select **Match By** logic as **Default(Email or FirstName and LastName)** or **Employee** **Id**
  - If we select **Default(Email or FirstName and LastName)** the system will match the user with Email or First Name and Last Name while syncing
  - If we select **Employee Id** the system will only match the Employee ID while syncing
- Select **Include Inactive Users** to fetch all users while sync
  - If we select **Yes** all the Active status users along with Disabled status users will be added in the Matched users for AWS.
  - If we select **No** then only Active user will be added to the Matched users for AWS.
- **Include Entitlements** Enabled as **Yes** to load the entitlements on application while syncing.

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##### **Configure Application**

- Search Connector in Featured Integrations and select **SFTP/FTP**.
- Provide the “**FTP Host**” to login into the domain
  - Example: sftp.securends.com
- Provide the “**FTP Port**”
  - Example: 22
- Provide the “**FTP UserName**” to login into the domain
  - Example: test-user
- Provide the “**FTP Password**”
  - Example: Password
- Provide the “**FTP File Location**”
  - Location Format: /filename.filetype **or** /inbound/filename.filetype
  - Example: /SCM_SE_01_20190101.txt **or** /inbound/SCM_SE_01_20190101.txt
- Select the “**Type**”
- Select one from the drop down: **SFTP/FTP**
  **Note**: Please use the SecurEnds provided SFTP Sample file, the headers should be same as the provided file with case sensitive.
- If needed, select "**Custom Configuration**" to manually map the FTP/SFTP file headers to the SecurEnds headers.

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When you export the application data (Gear icon->More->Export), SecurEnds will export the data to a CSV format and will have mapped the data to SecurEnds attributes. Below are the mapping details

- Employee First Name - First Name
- Employee Middle Name - Middle Name
- Employee Last Name - Last Name
- Employee Email ID - Email
- Credential - Distinguished Name (Common Name will be a copy of Distinguished Name data)
- Manager Email ID - SOR Manager Email
- Employee Access Status - Access Status
- Employee ID - User Id
- Last Authentication Date - Last Authentication
- Role/Group/Permission - Entitlement DN (Entitlement CN will be a copy of Entitlement DN data)
- Role/Group/Permission Description - Entitlement Description
- Role Created Date - Entitlement Created Date
- Login Created Date - Credential Created Date

Note: If there are Purged Credentials or Purged entitlements as a result of the most recent sync of teh application. Those are still present in the exported CSV data and will be denoted by a P within the Status and Entitlement Status attributes. You will want to exclude these from the CSV if you are just looking at data synced by from the applications. Status codes of E (Excluded) and D (Deleted) are valid records from your application, the SecurEnds Admin has simply chosen to classify these records respectively through an earlier action.

##### **Ticketing System Configuration**

For more information on Ticketing System Configuration, Click [here](https://www.securends.com/documentation/overview-of-ticket-creation/).

Click **Save** once finished to add the connector.