Possible to use FTP Receiver with sftp protocol?

[massit]

Hi,
is it possible to use the SFTP protocol?
Regards

[LukeMurphey]

I added SSL/TLS support in version 1.1.0.

The app will only support TLS/SSL if you install the necessary libraries (I cannot include them in the package since the files are platform specific). I include a setup.py script that you can run once to get the libraries installed; See the README for instructions.

Note that this isn't SFTP but rather FTPS. It is a little different than the original request but adds encryption support either way.

[LukeMurphey]

The FTP Receiver app doesn't support SFTP since that is entirely different protocol than FTP.

However, it can be made to support FTPS (FTP over SSL). If you want this, I could probably enable support for this in the app. Let me know if you want this.

[woodcock]

If you mean to pull in data to the Indexers, then: No. You can however setup a Heavy Forwarder and build a script (make it atomic by pulling in files with a blacklisted suffix like *.tmp and then rename them once they are transferred) to use sftp to put the files where splunk is waiting for them. In such a case I use batch with sinkhole instead of monitor so that they get deleted as each is forwarded.