About the FTP Log Push Feature

The FTP Log Push Feature lets you configure the appliance to push log files to an FTP server at specified intervals: on the first day of the month, on specified days of the week, or when log files roll over.

The feature operates within the following parameters:

• Excelerator will try as many times as necessary to establish one connection with the FTP server during the hour of the scheduled push. When the hour changes, Excelerator stops trying until the next interval you have specified.
• When a connection with the FTP server has been established, Excelerator assumes that the pushing of log files is going to be successful. Any FTP connection errors beyond that point are not detected by Excelerator.

For example, you specify that log files are to be pushed on every day of the week at 12 midnight. When the system clock reaches the target hour, Excelerator begins trying to establish a connection with the FTP server.

If a connection cannot be established before the hour changes to 1 a.m., Excelerator stops trying to connect and doesn't try again until 12 midnight the next day.

If a connection is established but an error occurs that prevents a successful push, the error is not detected, and Excelerator doesn't try to connect again until 12 midnight the next day.

IMPORTANT:  Although FTP connection errors are not detected, log files are not deleted until they have been successfully pushed. Therefore, if files for a given period are not successfully pushed, the system will attempt to push them during the next scheduled period and will not delete them until the push succeeds.