eG Monitoring
 

Measures reported by SftpTest

In computing, the SSH File Transfer Protocol (also Secret File Transfer Protocol, Secure FTP, or SFTP) is a network protocol that provides file access, file transfer, and file management functionalities over any reliable data stream. This protocol assumes that it is run over a secure channel, such as SSH, that the server has already authenticated the client, and that the identity of the client user is available to the protocol.

This test emulates a user connecting to an SFTP server (on Windows/Unix) and performing an operation on the server. The operation may either be a GET or a PUT. For the specified operation, this test measures the availability of the SFTP server and its response time.

The measures made by this test are as follows:

Measurement Description Measurement Unit Interpretation
Availability This measurement indicates whether the server was able to respond successfully to the query made by the test. Percent Availability failures could be caused by several factors such as the SFTP server being down, the SFTP server being misconfigured, authentication problems, file access permission problems, network failures, etc. Temporary unavailability may also occur if the SFTP server is overloaded.
Total_response_time This measurement indicates the total time taken by the server to respond to the requests it receives, including the data transfer time. Secs An increase in the total response time can occur because there are too many simultaneous requests or because of a bottleneck with any of the applications executing on the server.