No problem, I will work on it.

[image: Payoff, Inc.]
*Jeremy Farbota*
Software Engineer, Data
Payoff, Inc.

[email protected]

On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 11:38 AM, Joe Witt <[email protected]> wrote:

> Jeremy
>
> Can you please file a JIRA to cover this scenario that you're observing.
> If you can share stack traces/thread dumps/logs.  I agree this sounds like
> poor behavior and we should definitely make it better.
>
> On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 2:04 PM, Jeremy Farbota <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> I have a ListSFTP process that I've been using for a few months where a
>> partner posts some large files, I turn it on, then ListSFTP gets all the
>> filenames so a FetchSFTP can download them prior to other steps and
>> notification events later on.
>>
>> I had an issue this month initially because a password was changed. The
>> processor was unable to access the server (however it did not alert me to
>> that issue). Once I fixed the password, the primary node where this was
>> running still was not finding the new files. I switched to "All Nodes" and
>> one of the nodes was able to access the server. Unfortunately I had not yet
>> updated the password on the FetchSFTP processor so it failed to download.
>> When I fixed the password on that FetchSFTP (with 20 files still in the
>> queue), it would not run to download the files.
>>
>> Due to time constraints, I built another standalone service, moved the
>> template there, and it ran fine on that new, standalone NiFi on a different
>> server.
>>
>> I am able to SSH and SFTP into this SFTP server from the NiFi nodes in
>> question in the command line. I can list files from the command line as
>> well. I'm not being blacklisted by the host SFTP.
>>
>> I've restarted the NiFi nodes to see if that would help. It did not.
>>
>> I do not see the FetchSFTP service starting and stopping in nifi-app.log
>> when I turn it on and off.
>>
>> Another issue is that there is no failure or alert with the bad password.
>> If it fails, there is no response. Shouldn't there be an error if I put a
>> bad host or an "access denied" if I put in the wrong password? I ended up
>> figuring out the password was wrong by using a different client to figure
>> out why the NiFi processors were not responding.
>>
>> Any advice on how to get my ListSFTP and FetchSFTP responding again on my
>> main cluster? I'm hoping to continue using ListSFTP for other things on
>> prod but the processors are not able to be configured or ran at this time
>> on that cluster. When I try an create new processes, they do not respond.
>>
>> Thanks in advance!
>>
>>
>> [image: Payoff, Inc.]
>> *Jeremy Farbota*
>> Software Engineer, Data
>> Payoff, Inc.
>>
>> [email protected]
>>
>>
>>
>

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